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Preparing your home for storm season should be a yearly practice if you live in an area that is commonly attacked by storms. There are a lot of possible ways that your home can be damaged and you should prepare for all of them to minimize the financial toll of the storm.If you are putting your home for sale, the value of the home will be decreased if it has some storm damage.
To prevent property damage and financial loses, you should do the work way before any storm is in the news. If you own a property in a commonly attacked area, you should make plans on parts of the house that can be improved.
Use these three issues as a start on your storm preparations.
Make your home storm proof structurally
You should look for parts of the house that needs improvement by doing your research on the areas of your home that is commonly attacked by floods, strong gusts of wind and falling debris. The basement should also be structurally improved if you want to avoid flooding and any structural damages due to soil changes because of the amount of moisture that it absorbed. The roof should also be given special attention because it is commonly damaged by the wind, rain and flying debris.
Trimming of the surrounding trees
After working on the home’s structural integrity, you should find the part of nature that can cause the most damage. One part of nature, that commonly causes damage, is the trees surrounding your home because it can be uprooted by too much moisture in the soil and weak trunks can become projectiles that will hit glass parts of windows. You should also keep them small to avoid chances of it falling towards your house because heavier trees have higher chances of falling when the soil becomes soft. If you have a lot of trees in your property or if you don’t have experience on the matter, you can have them serviced by calling Tree Service Tampa. To know more about about tree services and how to make your home ready against storms, please follow here: treeservice-pros.com/tree-service-tampa
Keep the house free from flood
Floods happen only if the location is right for it. If your home is in a high position, you should have no problem with floods. For homes that are in a lower area however, there should be a good waterway that will allow the water to flow further downhill without damaging the property. The water should be allowed to flow freely in these waterways by cleaning them constantly. Making the water flow to a bigger body of water is your best way of preventing floods.
