A word about housing designs and how roofing, gutters and storm-water drainage works (or more like, how it DOESN'T work)!
I do water damage restoration as part of my work. Especially over the past 5 weeks since our big storm, I am amazed at how inadequately the average home is designed with regard to coping in severe wet weather! I have attended homes and businesses all over Perth, old, new, some well maintained, others not. But generally it seems to me that things could be a whole lot better designed. As things are, it is almost a certainty that we will have water ingress in our homes sooner or later. The costs are incredible! So to those who know a bit about building design, what do you think could be done in improve designs of roofing, gutters etc to make them more water-tight?
And not just from external water.... there is also a lot of water ingress through walls and floors etc from showers and water pipes. Really, there's gotta be better standards of finish available to prevent water damage!
Ash.