Residential areas in the Eastern Province, damaged by recent weather depressions, have witnessed a remarkable turnout in adopting temporary solutions to prevent rainwater from entering homes, by placing sandbag barriers on external doors, or closing the outlets from which water leaks with permanent, controlled aluminum barriers. During rain.
Citizens from the region told Emirates Al-Youm that the heavy rainfall, which they described as unprecedented, led to water leaking into their homes and causing financial losses as a result of damage to some properties, noting that they did not expect to face this challenge when building their homes, which necessitated… Some of them resorted to finding temporary solutions to prevent the entry of rainwater, but they stressed the need to find permanent solutions to this problem.
Citizen Muhammad Rashid Al Dhanhani, from the Al Hail area in the Emirate of Fujairah, who is one of those affected by the ingress of rainwater into their homes, said: “We had to act quickly to confront the ingress of rainwater into the homes, as we used sandbags, which was indeed a practical solution that reduced water leakage, and helped us In protecting property from damage.
He added that the structure of the houses they built was not sufficient to cope with the amounts of rain that the region had recently witnessed, pointing out that this challenge was not present, but with the constantly changing weather condition, its instability, and the varying intensity of the rain, it became necessary to find permanent solutions when building houses. To prevent water leakage during heavy rains and exceptional weather conditions.
He reported that he consulted a contracting company to build a permanent barrier in front of the house, to prevent water from flowing into it.
For his part, one of the affected people, citizen Abdullah Muhammad Al Zaabi, from the city of Kalba in Sharjah, said that he suffered from large amounts of rainwater entering his house during the recent weather depressions, which led to major material damage, after the rainwater flooded most of the rooms of the house, causing… The furniture was damaged, even though some sandbags were placed in front of the outside door of the house.
Al Zaabi agreed that current house designs do not adequately take into account the challenges of rainwater leakage, which underscores the necessity of reconsidering the construction of houses and their infrastructure to ensure their resistance to rainwater in the future, stressing the importance of finding permanent solutions to protect homes instead of being satisfied with temporary solutions.
But citizen Maryam Saeed, from the Emirate of Fujairah, believes that temporary solutions, such as using sandbags, are sufficient to confront the problem of rainwater seeping into homes, especially since the recent weather depressions were exceptional, and may not be repeated in the region for many years to come, she said. She stated that she placed sandbags and built a temporary barrier in front of her house, to prevent rainwater from entering, noting that she did not face any difficulty in obtaining these bags, as construction companies market them through large trucks that pass in front of the houses.
She added that she will store sandbags after the end of the weather depression, to use them if the region is again exposed to any weather depression.
In turn, the architect, Muhammad Abdullah, reported that a number of citizens affected by the recent weather depressions in the Emirate of Fujairah turned to some engineers for advice on building barriers that prevent rainwater from entering their homes. He said that contracting companies have already begun construction work that includes building such barriers in front of the exterior doors of homes, especially aluminum barriers that are controlled during rainfall.
. Citizens stressed the need to find permanent solutions while building homes to deal with rainwater leakage.
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