all right we're GNA get started my name is Jeff I live in Readington Beach I live on bua sea Bay I moved here about six years ago and we were here about a year and a half and AA decided to put 15 Ines of water in my garage and I just figured this place flooded all the time so I built my own barrier and people were laughing at me because we haven't flooded in 20 25 years well I built my own barrier and we all know what happened last year eight it was no uh November of 2020 then last year in September we got hit with AIA and then in December we had the no-name storm I got no water in my garage or in my house and so what happened was a bunch of my friends cornered me and said you need to put on a seminar because people need to do what you did I'm like no I don't want to do it and then I ran into this guy in the middle of last year and we started talking about what we were going to do and then when we got flooded uh the towns got flooded last fall and winter we said all right we're going to work on this and we decided to go full on in we have a lot of very good ideas for you we have stuff that has worked this stuff has worked flat out worked 15 in of water on the outside no water on the inside Bob Bob and I have two I have a different Theory than Bob my theory is I want I don't want one drop of water in my house I don't want one drop of water in my garage Bob says he'll manage the water whatever that means I don't know so there's not the ideas that we're going to give you and the products that we're going to show you are stuff that we've used our friends have used our colleagues have used um we are not we are not saying here use this product and this is the only product we have no Financial incentive in any of this zero although he keeps telling me to buy dep uh stock I don't know why but this stuff works if you apply it correctly and you take your time the one thing I will tell you is once you get ready the stress goes away you you won't be sitting sitting there 5 minutes before Category 2 is 100 miles offshore going I'm going to flood my furniture is going to be ruined and I'm G to have to do all this stuff and your stress will go away it really does it's gone away from me I don't worry about it anymore my foot is or my house is protected up to four and a half feet right now all the way around I am not worried about a drop of water up to 4 and 1/2 ft and I'm daring to go to 9 ft I think the walls will cave in but you so anyway I'm trying I'm doing stuff to go up even higher but we're going to show you a lot of good products a lot of good ideas we're going to go through each section if you have questions ask the questions afterwards we'll hand you a mic so everybody can hear your question uh we have people here from some of the companies we're going to show you their products we have talked to a lot of neighbors we've talked to a lot of reps we've talked to a lot of people um I've talked to managers at Home Depot I've talked to DAP reps people in their corporate office I've talked to everybody everywhere Bob and I have taken it upon us to become experts in this I'm not quite sure why but our houses are waterproof we have different ways of doing it his will look totally different than what I did but they both work so by the way I got to thank a few people first I want to thank uh Adriana from uh Readington Beach and D they helped with all the brochures and everything that you have I want to thank Robin uh who is a city administrator for madira Beach for allowing us to come in do this the last time we did it at Readington Beach we had a very small room we had 110 people in it and no AC it great um every everyone who has helped us along the way to come up with these things and big help CJ thanks for your help up in Readington chores um if you have questions just wait till we get to the end afterwards if you want to come up touch feel take pictures ask a specific questions um in the in the brochure that you or brochure in the pan that you have we have in there where these products are in Home Depot or Ace where you can find them where they are on Amazon uh who was it that put the bay in the uh I started putting the bay in island so if you look for a product you don't have to look around the store you go right to the item itself just go through Home Depot with your cart and go to the bay and the uh aisle number and you'll find everything but you have to do it in two minutes so I'll let Bob go okay we want to start first again to reinforce what Jeff said these are ideas and suggestions the the need to we want you to just try to listen and understand what we're saying you really don't have to take a tremendous amount of notes because everything we talk about and more is in the website and and you will on the handout you have three areas of communication we have an email address that Jeff and I monitor so if someone has a question you could send it directly to that email address we attempted to start a Facebook group to see if people would use that and we had very few so far join the group I think people are uncomfortable at times just using Facebook and also we have the website and the website is broken down pretty much the way this conversation tonight is going to go on on I we got to get Tom with you we're not getting the uh video we're not getting the pictures of where is Tom and we get we'll we'll get them up uh here in a second you were going to go into the well I want them to show I wanted them to share you to share the cat to map oh so in your handout one of one of the things that's interesting is if you look at Ada it was a tropical storm if you look at Adalia it was a cat 3 hurricane when it went by us but it was 130 mil offshore and then in December a lot of us flooded because it was a no-name storm it wasn't even tropical storm and we flooded it on that so just think for a moment instead of four or five Ines of water it's another 8 in or a foot so just think about what you have to do to prevent that kind of flood water as opposed to what's happened a lot of people have come up to me and said oh the water only comes this high oh really I I don't think that's correct what if it's this High it changes the dynamic so make sure that you're thinking not what's happened but what could happen and if you look at this picture this is from the flood plane of administrator for pelis County Lisa Foster this is a cat 2 with us on the wrong side of the storm we're in the Northeast quadrant according to this and it's 6 to 12 feet that's a cat too so I don't know what we can do you know like I said I'm going to nine if it's 12 I'm even I have an indoor pool but just be prepared instead of it being this high it's this High that's that's our you know one of the things that we want to get through to everybody is make sure you prepare for a little bit higher and a lot of this stuff will help you do that and actually once you do this stuff a lot of this stuff like using um stuff like this you do it once using stuff like this you do it once this is not something you have to do day in and day out you do it once and you never most of our lifetimes you'll never have to duplicate it so what we are doing is we're breaking it down by key sections to talk about we're going to talk about penetrations and Jeff will take you through a a travel around your house and look at what where water entry places can be I'll touch on a number of the electrical risks you have and what you can do about them we also talk about the do doorways whether French doors sliders whatever and obviously the critical one we're going to address is the garage door and what you can do both as a do-it-yourselfer and as a using commercial barriers to minimize and stop water from entering your home uh we have a a wide variety which you'll see up here of multiple cing material some is just good indoor outdoor CA material we have a caulking clay I'll call it a clay that's very easy to apply with your hands but every one of them has a different application and it's important that you read the back of the product to be sure you're using it in the right way uh we have silicon which is typically used inside of uh receptacles and it's a permanent waterproof product that is very effective and lasts forever and we have something I think it's called seal and what's it called John I keep forget what's if you do not yeah exactly if you do nothing else nothing else buy this buy at least a case have it in your house have it with this I didn't even know they made these things up until a year ago what this is It's a battery operated gun so you pull the button and it puts the on so when there's a storm coming and you have to put 12 tubes of on your house you're not going to do it and plus this  is a lot thicker than a standard COA and the other thing I'm going to say about this stuff is when you put this on it's not a beauty pageant nobody cares what it looks like because when it comes off it comes off in a big strand it just peels off you got to leave it on testing got to leave it on for at least 22 to 24 hours to get it to come off like this if it's less than that it it just doesn't by the way this is a piece I put on on September 1st on one of my back doors I only took a little bit off today because every month I take off more I want to see how long before it won't come off right this is eight months so this and it takes no paint doesn't leave any debris on the product it is do you have a picture of my door that first one so that's what I used to do that was my side door can you guess what happened all the paint I was using Gorilla Tape yeah that stuff I was repainting the damage was worse I still I still have residue on there from this tape okay there is very little reason in our opinion my opinion to use duct tape there's certain things you can use it on but very few um I have a neighbor and our goal is to use as little duct tape as possible whereas prior to Adalia we were using rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls of this stuff and we were doing I have three big gigantic sliders I have uh 10 20 32 feet of Sliders on the back of my house we were going through rolls of this stuff and it never really got tested but now uh we'll show you something interesting later if you have sliding doors where you'll never use duct tape again you'll use you'll use something else and this stuff liquid gold right now the only place you can buy this you can buy it online um the price goes way up once we get into hurricane season uh right now um Amazon will have have it um Ace Hardware locally and they're all different prices the cheapest guy is up on seminal Boulevard in Largo and Home Depot just place a large order Home Depot is going to carry it I talked to manager into carrying this stuff at seminal they do not have it as of yet as oppos to yeah do not buy white crystal clear crystal clear the white doesn't cure and it doesn't come off I still have some on another door of white and I'm still waiting for it to cure and I put it on eight months ago clear this stuff will cure in a day actually and it'll form a skin within an hour hour and a half so I think it's pretty good waterproof you have to put it on when it's dry but for openings around your house go around your house and look at all the openings where the water's going to come in whether it be around your dryer vent a dog door um here's if you look at this dryer vent right here this is this is the dryer vent that I put on a lot of homes it's got two doors okay two doors it works this one uh if you go back one or forward one that is the one on my house it's painted it works with paint on it these are cheap they're on Amazon I think there's $16 what you do is you put it on you  around the outside leave the bottom open when a storm comes seal and peel around this and by the way you should have a 4in pipe coming through your wall and if you have the pipe it fits right on the back okay and it sits it's right on the outside of your house this won't rust I can tell you I have seen ju I've walked around about 70 or 80 homes maybe more i' kind of lost track of how many homes I've gone around to try usually at [Laughter] night that was good I like that if you if you look at this dryer vent though it's not going to rust there are a lot of dryer vents in these towns where they're the metal hoods they're about this high above the ground and the the flap the metal flap is Rusted open so I had a guy I had a guy he bought a lot of these barriers up here and he put them all up and he had a 4-inch hole on the side of his house that was about that high off the ground I'm like you've got a fire hose on the side of your house it's just going to flood in you cannot just expect to come and buy one of these barriers and think your problems are solved you have to go through each and every orifice around each and every water pipe around each and every cable line and phone line and anything that's going through the wall of your house it just just do it with an allpurpose if you want to paint it make sure you use latex cuz you can paint latex so just everything one of the tips on that uh Jeff helped us out on was the fact that this is not you are not caulking for decorative purposes when you use the seal and peel you want to put and you saw the product he had you want to put a thumb thickness around every place you apply it it's like rubber and if you do that then it's an easy peel off when when it's when it's done and that's another reason why the electric gun is the best way to go now some of us don't have vents no you can if if you have a door or you have something that you never use you can put this on the problem I found is after time it shrinks so after eight months I'm seeing some areas where it's shrinking so this was only left on 22 hours this piece this piece has been on eight8 months and you can see the difference they were both about the same the one thing I will tell you about this COA buy way more than you think you're going to need and there's two reasons for that number one you want to put a beat of COA on that's the size of like your finger you want it on heavy cuz the heavier you put it on the easier it is to peel off it just comes right off and if it leaves a little bit of residue you take your hand you rub it comes right off it's not like typical COA the other thing is when when you're looking at um if you put it on for an extended period of time and it shrinks a little bit you want it enough on there so when it's shrinking you're okay okay now some of us don't have a nice wall to install a the vent that Jeff showed you some of us have their vent in a 10-in corridor between a a fence and a uh a shed and so that's where we pass ideas back and forth and we come up with a way to use a 4-in sewer pipe and extend the vent two feet out to the walk area now it just I didn't add any 90° bends so the the efficiency of the dryer stays the same and also it provides an easy access to that vent uh Jeff Jeff mentioned also the uh seal and seal and peel another uh some of our friends have actually used a 4 in test open there a pump up and that'll seal it and you don't seal completely for the this this it's called a test plug or a plumbers ball whatever you want to call it it's basically got a car tire you know when you hook up to inflate a car tire it's got one of those on the end you can put this open this flap up stick it in the tube stick it in the tube blow it up and it seals the pipe okay there's there's multiple uses we'll we'll show you some other uses for these test plugs but you just put it in and you blow it up and it seals this pipe no you can buy them all we got different side we got 2 in 3 inch you can buy 6 inch you can buy the most common for the dryer is four most dryer vents are 4 in most sewer lines are 4 in so you use this in a sewer line a toilet or do you use 4 inch or three inch in uh your toilets three three that's a little personal he's kind a [Laughter] roll what so where are we going uh what we're going to talk about is the Let's Take a Ride On The Electrical train Jeff showed me this of a house that he visited and tell them what happened this is the one that he had some flood water I I'll share with you three things that happened to myself and people that I know this particular picture is from a house on Readington Drive near 161st the home flooded and the water came in and the outlet caught on fire thank God the water came up fast enough to put the fire out my dock I had a GFI you can see how just if you see that take it off turn the power off and you're replacing the whole thing the uh and be thankful your house didn't burn to the ground my dock I had a GFI the GFI didn't trip the GFI totally melted Inside the Box caught on fire fried one of my Bol lift Motors and I had to replace all of this stuff we had another friend who had a GFI or I think it was just an outlet on the outside of his house a cement walled house he had an outlet on the outside where they had drilled through the wall to um um we're going to show you a video of this in a minute but there is they drilled through the wall to get the electric he is very lucky the fire didn't go back down through the hole and start the house on fire so it is very important what Bob's talking about with the electrical here's an example so just to give an example of how that Carter is placed in your home now he's removing it in order to put an outside recepticle pop out the tab and then you just bore a hole right through the wall and by the way there's no sealer in any of that they don't seal them there's a big hole so when you're waterproof in your home if you have an outdoor outlet and on the exact other side of the wall there's an indoor outlet there's a hole right through the wall and if you have an outdoor outlet where the pipe's not coming up they went into the wall whether they went into the um uh the center of a cinder block or if they actually went through the wall and ran it up behind the drywall you got to check all of these Outlets that one is on the outside of the house okay so that was coming directly from our kitchen through the cabinet to the outdoor receptacle so all we did was we went in put silicone inside the the the uh drilled hole this extended the uh receptacle three and 1/2 ft up and put a GFI I'm GNA do this yep so one of one of the if you have outside recept or receptacles or Outlets or anything like that this is called dialectric Grease is a waterproof grease so if you have a wire nut turn the power off take the nut up off squirt this in a couple squirts put it back on a wire tighten it and then put this all the way around it'll waterproof that connection and it's this is cheap it's easy it's in the electrical aisle aisle at Home Depot very easy to use and it's not expensive and it'll keep your house from catching on fire hopefully now something like that a homeowner has to be relatively skilled to open up the receptical and do any work secondly for ourselves if I'm putting in a new receptacle outside I will definitely use that or another product to allow us to actually tighten it comes with its with it uh the conductor already comes with a sealant inside it and he we have a sample of it you you can you can buy wire nuts with dialectic grease already in them so instead of using that canister you can just take these if you don't have a lot and just twist them on if you have outdoor uh lighting or speakers or anything like that use stuff like this to keep waterproofing all of your outside connections he I think you had said you had like 20 connections outside and you flooded and you didn't have one failure my backyard has been underwater three times totally I mean you know feet of water I have 20 speakers I have I God knows how many light I have not lost the light and I've have not lost the speaker they all still work and they've been underwater completely one of the other things is if you you cannot do the sealant or you're uncomfortable to use it one of the things we've used is the we call them plumbers c yeah it's a play like product that you put on by hand and found this was an effective way to close and seal an outdoor receptacle and all you do is you press it in with your fingers and it seals against it and then you close the cover on that receptacle notti notice notice how it's got it on the edge too so it can't seep in through the edges and get behind it becomes almost like a passion where you say you start looking at your house and you say yeah I wonder if I wonder if I've looked behind there the picture we showed of our um of the vent where I have it down at a small Corridor I couldn't get at it what did I do I emptied everything out of the shed pulled it away and there were two gaping holes behind The Shed from my gas line going into my my water heater and our stove that I never realized was there so it's a very important that you you get passionate about asking yourself if I was floodwater how could I enter any part of that house and you'll be surprised in what you can find this is an example when Jeff and I started talking and and challenging each other I went to him and said I have no issues of worry about water outside and then I went home and took a look and there's my uh my receptacle that powers my my Dock and my outdoor lights six inches off the ground that wasn't so simple re took it apart rewired it raised it three and a half feet above the grade I I'll just say he's an electrical engineer so you know if if you're not comfortable doing any type of electrical work find someone who is or hire an electrician but it's not this is not hard work to do now we we talked about the the risk of outdoor receptacles and so the question is do you know at your breaker panel which Breakers shut off outdoor receptacles because one of the things that you see in your checklist and it's included in the website one of the things you do when a flood is coming is you turn off the outdoor recepticles what if you're not there what if you have to call your neighbor and say hey I'm not going to be there could you turn off the receptacles to my outdoor lighting where did where do they go so what we've done is we've used you could use a hair dryer and wait to hear the noise go off you can grab a lamp and use it and we found that a simple device like this on Amazon for like $8 you put a you put that in a bulb in and you can test it and find which one of the receptacles but also even more important once you find them it's important to mark them with a DOT with white out something that is very clear and number it on your panel door so people know and your family knows which receptacles support the outdoor uh which Breakers support the outdoor receptacles so this this house in particular we identified the outdoor receptacles there were there's three of them I one two no there's four so what what we did is we figured out each each outdoor outlet and there's three there's three uh dots black dots so I could call you and I could say go over to this person's house and flip the black dots I can call anybody in this room and say go flip the black dots and you can turn off anybody's house if you know if you have a marking system make it easy make it so if you're not here we've heard horror stories where my fud bearers I wasn't here so I asked somebody to do it and they put it up wrong uh I won't tell you what happened to them turning off the power to your outdoor Outlets or your dock or any of those things just go find them mark them and make it easy so anybody can do it there's a small as side to that because I guess a couple weeks ago maybe three weeks ago we had that heavy rain and scare a flood so I went around and went from my wonderful dotted Breakers and turned them all off went back into the house and entered a dark house the house is built in 59 the light in the bathroom is fed by the one on the dock which is fed over by the one over here how do whoever wired this house so what we have done in our house is we have what I call a uh an extension emergency plan bought three heavyduty extensions we've marked not only which Breakers are outdoor Breakers but which ones are affected when I turn off that outdoor breaker and then recognize that I have other other receptacles inside that can I can use an extension to to make sure my fans are on make sure that the refrigerator is on and any critical appliances so just something to keep in mind but just turning off outdoor Breakers does turn off receptacles in the house can can you go to the picture of my doc so if you if you look at this on the bottom the white box that's a junction box it's filled with wire nuts it's got dialectic grease and all of them just above it was my GFI that caught on fire so what I did is I moved the GFI all the way to the top all right so just move if you can or hire an electrician and move stuff up and like I said I only have to do this once the other thing I did is every joint has silicone on it so there's I highly doubt there will ever be any water in this unless the water is over my pilings which uh we'll be talking about other stuff but so on a dock you can do stuff like this do you want me to talk about yeah one of the things I didn't realize is there's things called po pools in Florida and pools I didn't realize and in pools there's pool pumps and typically they're mounted what about one inch off the ground and I think Jeff came up with a clever way to handle this this this is a picture of three of my pool pumps and you can see how they were if you have a pool they were hardwired one of the covers is off but they were hardwired to these lower boxes so every time there was a storm storm coming because they're sitting on ground I would go out i' disconnect them I'd pull you turn the power off I'd pull all the wires out of the conduit and then when I'd come back I have four pumps I'd have put them all back together before I could turn on one so I'm out there for three and a half four hours putting together pool pumps so I decided to change this and this is what I did you want to go to the next one so this is a picture where I ran the hardwire up to a receptacle and I put the pump on a plug so now when there's a storm coming I have two quick connects if you go to the next one but you can see the quick connects on the white pipe I disconnect it I unplug it and I carry it into the garage and it's done like that and then when I come back I come back I quick connect them I plug it in they're all still on a g mine are all still on a GFI breake and so this way works for me it's easy and it's instead of it taking three and a half four hours to connect and run it through the conduit and all that stuff it's 10 minutes what's that each pump close I our pumps are you know we're I'm like six5 to $6,000 worth of pumps so they have to come up and go out a lot of I'm sure a lot of you in the room have lost the pool pump it's not a fun experience you have to wait for somebody to come back and replace it and connect it and you know your pool's turning Greener and Greener this this is a very quick option once it's done unplug it and carry it in the garage I put mine up on boards about six feet in the air on ladders so they can't get wet one of the things that Jeff jokingly said is I'm I'm an engineering back ground but and it is electrical and I went to to Jeff for advice on how to rewire certain receptacles and this is the way he left me so I'm not sure if I'd get advice when you come up here really don't asking about that that is that is my dock going to one of my Motors oh is it by the way there's dialectic grease in every one of those all right now we're going we're we're going to go to the fun stuff now which affects everybody in this room uh the pool is some people not everybody but doors doors that you don't want to do that go you don't want to do that anymore this stuff wait let me get it replaces everything you can put a big enough beat of on that door it doesn't matter how wide the gap you can build this out you can put that on there and this this stuff will seal it if it leaves a little residue you can just take your hand and rub it and it comes right off it doesn't take the paint it's wonderful stuff for that's my side door here you go this stuff got to walk all the way over here this this is half inch vinyl board they sell it in a 4 by8 foot sheet at Home Depot this is 4 feet high and couple feet wide this is my top it's the outside the big slider the left door on the right side so when I'm getting ready for a storm and I say take the stress out write a book here okay not warm peace cuz you got to read it quick but write a book so you can read it go put it up and it takes you zero time this stuff what you can't see here is this stuff locks into if you have tracks on your sliders for screens it locks into the screen tracks so if you look at this 2x4 and it may be hard in the back to see but you can see a notch in the top and you can see a notch in the bottom I put this in I put it in lock it into the track the board on the wide part of your slider goes up against here I actually will put a couple screws in this to hold it in place and there you can see it was Eliza said to me she goes it looks like you're framing a wall I kind of was but now the pressure if I get water pressure coming on my slider I've got this behind it and it's locked in on the tracks if you don't have tracks there's other things you can do if you if you don't have a track on the top this one I have a track on the top a track on the side where I can lock it in it just slides right in and it it works great and most houses have screen door tracks on their sliders I've seen one two I've seen probably three that don't so if you have if you have sliders um these panels they're at Home Depot they're right next to the big saw in they won't hire me I don't know what aisle it is uh but yeah the pro entrance but they're $100 a sheet you cut them once you never have to do it again and the interesting thing is when you go to lock them in you can bend them so they just snap in you cut them tight they're real easy to cut and you just you just bend them and you snap them in and to pull them out you just pull on the center and they pop right out this is waterproof around the around the edges Liquid Gold go down the sides there's there's a picture of my neighbor's house he's here somewhere right over there hi Richard this is my neighbor's house we we originally my my back the back of my house I have rolled down shutters and I put these things sideways and we were doing his house and they were we were putting it up sideways and we're like the rain's going to get behind it so I I looked at him and we both at the same time what if we turn them vertically so we turn them vertically and what he does to add stability he's got he's got 2x4s behind one of the sides he he puts Gorilla Tape use Gorilla tape on this application because it's stronger and it provides more rigidity to these boards so you can see the Gorilla Tape coming down the seams and then on the bottom and the sides and he's got the seal and peel  and how many inches of water did you have up the last couple the last storm he got no water in his house from these things so but the water was the water was pretty high on on the outside so this is the other thing and I I came up with this idea on this stuff after Adalia because uh Richard and I were both out there taping away on sliding doors for I don't know six seven hours and I was like this is is nuts and what I had done after Ada in my garage IID taken out the bottom four feet of drywall and I'd put these 4x8 foot sheets up on the wall and I put plastic trim on the bottom I painted them you can't tell it's not drywall but now in my garage I have 4 feet of vinyl in the garage with vinyl trim I don't care if I get water in it I won't but I don't care anymore this stuff is very versatile it's at Home Depot I've asked the manager there uh she triple ordered it uh this last go around so they have plenty of it right now and she knows to keep it in stock so this stuff really really really really works it'll keep the water out of your sliders and you know what even if you wanted to on a side door you could build it out you could put neoprene down each side and on the bottom tap on it to the wall and you have a watertight barrier there's a lot of stuff you can use this with because it doesn't absorb water so and once you cut it once for your slider you just bring it out you put it in place and you're done my slider my sliders it used to take us forever to do those sliders we were out there taping forever now I can do a slider in about 5 minutes just snap this in and with a power  and you're done so ease no stress make it easy so good stuff all of his sliders however were moving sliders yep I have fixed I have a fixed pain and a moving pain and so I've decided that I'm going to make the fix Paine a barrier and so I sealed it completely in place they're hurricane sliders they're hurricane sliders and I'm just going to seal them and keep them sealed it's white caul and you don't even know it's there now I did I did approach the moving slider a little differently happen to be in Jeff's Garage and I see this this circular pile of this gray material I said what is that oh that's poly bicarbonate I said that's hurricane shutter material what are you doing with it well I was going to use it and I said well what did it cost you he says was less than $100 I said oh well I'll buy it he said sure it's two grand um so I bought it at his cost and what I did was I made my own half slider so I have polycarbonate that fits right in the track of the moving slider where the screen goes I have it sealed so that no water goes behind it and it takes me about 10 minutes to put that on so the fix slider is always fixed the other one comes on very easily and quickly and I'll either use seal and peel or the Rope CA to seal the exposed edges and I'm good to go uh so the the opportunity I see for some people and when we've visited some of the homes uh the homeowner said well I never use that door yes it moves but I never use it well then CA it if you never use it make it permanent and so that's just a simple way to cut in half the possibility of water in the home on the our our front door is probably four to 5 feet above street level but I do want to one I want to still protect it and secondly what I'd like to do is I'd like to be able to leave the house if I decide to leave and I all my barriers are up so by putting an 18 in in 3/4 in plywood secured against the front door and I just made my own rails and screwed those in and then I would seal it with seal and peel or CA and I would have now an additional 18 in of flood protection in the front door and there's that's a picture of uh seal and peel I don't think Trish is Trish here um there uh a woman on Fourth Street in Readington Beach called me up and uh actually I found her on next door and she called me up and she goes I don't know how to use my gun cuz she bought one of these guns okay she goes I've never cocked anything in my entire life and would you come over and show me how to do it I said all right so I brought a tube of this over sealant peel and how to cut tip off make sure you every time I think about this I start laughing cut the tip off make it thick don't cut it down here remember it's not a beauty pageant cut it back here okay and when you do stick something down inside this nipple to break the seal we had a friend that stuck a nail in the side cuz it wasn't coming out okay but he did get the CK out so so but anyway she put it in the gun she cocked her door and I she was going I said Put it on heavier so she put it on heavier she left it on and then she peeled it off you a week or two later and she goes well before that she put it on she goes I can do this you know what anybody in this room can do this you can do this it's not hard okay okay buy one of these guns you catch them on sale for $52 $59 on Amazon you can your house shut it's not hard so but that's that's her on her house and she peeled it off without a problem what it's over there so I'll let you go the next one Bob okay all right all right here the next one which is that door brace oh yeah if your door opens in think about it for a minute the water pressure is pushing on that door so if you don't have one of these barriers or your own homemade barrier that water is really going to crank on that door so this is a barrier you can buy to put on there's a lot of them this is I don't have this cuz all of mine open out but if your door opens in consider a barrier to hold your door shut if the water pressure is that big on the outside and seal and peel the outside of it 2 by4 that that is hold on go back to that one for a second that is my new that's my new slider I had them going horizontal now I've gone full all the way up it really isn't that hard to do once and once I make these and they're all labeled you just snap them into place and they sit back so if you have sliders use use this stuff this stuff works great Jeff mentioned it before and I think it's a great idea he was referencing the PBC in marking where that one goes I would like to go another step which he introduced me to is tomorrow start putting together your flood and storm products in a tub put them all in one place because when you do that two days before the storm where is everything you're you can't buy gas anywhere you can't get tape it's all out and so what we've done is we've con constantly are replenishing our storm box it doesn't take it's only about 2x 3 foot by 18 in but all the items any bolts or screws we need to put up our our barriers is there an extra ratchet wrench that I use is there the sockets for that ratchet wrench are there so even if it's a duplicate put it all in one place and then you're not running around in that last week trying to figure out what to do the other thing that we kind of didn't we fail to mention is we get questions as to when should I start preparing for a flood and I guess it's now today start today the one thing I will tell you keep this in your house in a closet where it's cool do not leave it in your garage it'll go bad and it does have an expiration date they won't tell you when that is okay but my guess is it'll last at least three four years and if you have a case or two or in my case four cases in your house I can't run out that would be not good but if you have four cases or two cases and Ken Ken had a great idea I said here's a here's a case can I want to and I go well you don't need that much he goes what if we storms I didn't think of that so that was a good idea Ken put it in your house in a closet keep all this stuff together one thing I'll mention before Bob's talking about a kit you just simple stuff you can go to the dollar store he are a dollar and a quarter I have I don't know 10 I tell Isa she's going to open the microwave and there'll be one in there you can you can buy lighters for a dollar and a quarter you can buy this tape and by the way when there's a storm coming you're not buying it you're not buying this you're not buying this you're not buying this it's all going to be gone cuz that's what happened last year it was empty the store the store shelves keep this stuff in a closet out of the Heat and it'll last a lot longer just two other two other things I want to mention about this is neoprene okay this piece is cut you can buy neoprene uh Goodyear Rubber products it's over off of Brian Derry and it's in the site in the uh it's in the website yeah it's in the website if you want to if you want to do a do-it-yourself project this is you can this is 38 inch um neoprene and'll it'll work when it you put it on if you want to put it on the back of here or on the back of a board or on in my case on my garage store we'll get to it in a minute but it's in between my boards my homemade barrier and actually if you look at some of these products they have neoprene that they're using to to seal out the water uh one last there was one um forgot what oh all R steel all R metal on 49th Street if you want to make your own thing go into all row metal on 49th Street they have all kinds of scraps they have all kinds of stock and you can come up with all kinds of ideas to make channels to do whatever you want to do so just keep in mind these these stores and these buildings are here and they will allow you to find products that you can do and uh where's the gentleman um I I've lost him now oh back there he was coming up showing us what he's doing with his and you know what I'm sure it's going to work it's a great idea right it's a great idea so this isn't these things aren't the only way to do it there 's there's a hundred different ways just keep the water out and by the way if you keep the water out you're not going to want to sell your home your neighbors if they do it are not going to want to sell their home everybody should stay here that's why we're doing it we want everybody to stay here well then Jeff teed up the the big area the garage door biggest risk area we have and there are people that that everybody approach approaches it the same but we kind of pulled some information just to make sure we uh dispel any rumors about how great sandbags are sandbags have a purpose they're great on the beach water goes right through it and it goes back into the Gulf but there's here options you have to protect this to protect yourselves you can do nothing which we know some have done you can just use the taping which we now know doesn't provide any value at all or some people put just put sandbags across the Gap and the seal on the garage door and they try to stack it in some kind of manner so that it doesn't doesn't provide any real pain but there is a method and there is a way to install sandbags if that's the method you chose the sand sandbag materials are available in town right uh where is here we go we get the Public Works director for madira Beach y Megan here oh of course we were turn green hello everybody so as I said sandbags they're not going to stop the water so here in madira Beach um in the event of a store and we have a sandbag location at our Public Works Yard with that being said we do limit the sandbags for our residents so you're going to get 10 per household or 10 per person that's not going to stop the water but if you really want to try to stop the water you need to do a some type of tarp or Vis queen or something and layer that above the door and then stack everything don't overfill your sandbags most people do you have to lift them they three scoops is typically enough and then you want to throw them and they lay flat if they don't lay flat it's not going to work it's very ineffective so doesn't matter how much sand is in there it just matters see up on the screen how they are laying flat they are staggered with that tarp behind it and then tape it or somehow secure it so that it's not going to fold down if it does fold down and it's above that second layer it will keep the water somewhat out anything else where where are you going to have sandbags um from a deer Beach residence over at our Public Works Yard 503 150th Avenue if we have a storm coming we'll open it up we'll have message boards out there are we taking questions now that is unfortunate it is for our residents only um but pelis County does open up locations that do take p P County residents so pelis county is getting a lot more effective about sand bag locations and trying to streamline it sure they will they will perfect did everybody hear that that's Carol's Carol's Building Material yes anything else for me yep good thanks thank you Megan uh one these are my sandbags the only time these will get filled is if my roof is bothered and I have to hold the tarp down I have buckets in my shed filled with sand I will fill these and then I will put them up to hold the tarp down otherwise we you don't use them I don't use them um they they're very ineffective in terms of keeping the water out I can't pass this up are you also suggesting they keep all the sand in their bedroom okay so this is a picture of what I did after Ada these are 2 by 10 by 10s that I cut you can see the black lines between them which is this okay I've made this myself I I've got neoprene up in the corners on on the L bracket I have not had water in my house or in my garage since AA last and there was water over the bottom board the last two storms so it's not getting in this I did it's homemade um there are a lot of options that we're going to show you here in a minute but the interesting thing is if you want to make your own barriers it is possible to make your own barriers and keep the water out I will just say this I hammer drilled into the concrete I put anchors in and by the way I was a stock broker I didn't know a dang thing about flooding hurricanes construction nothing and I I built this myself and it works so if you decide to do it you can do it I'm sorry that's this is wood the the reason is is it's a big span it's 9 feet across and what I did is I just I made the out of 2x 10 by 10 and if you stand on the back the center um aluminum thing is just a brace to hold them together but if you push on this it doesn't move so we're going to go into some of the commercial products here in a second um this is and by the way these are in no specific order this is rapid Aqua Shield rapid uh Raphael and Raphael and Gabby over here are the Reps for this this area of Florida this is this is a mockup by the way so it's not the side I'm going to give you a quick idea of how it works but if you look at it you pull back these these two levers go like that so if this was your garage door it'd come out in one piece if it was a single door if it was a double door you would put they would put this post down in the concrete and it would be a post that would sit down in here and when you weren't using it you would just put a cover over it all right very there's a a lot of installations of this in Readington Beach that I'm aware of have you guys done madira Beach probably yeah but so when you put it back in like if it's your front door you only have to hold it up over these two little buttons so you hold it up over the two little buttons you're done you can once this thing is installed it's very easy yeah so on the back side there's neoprene oh here yeah this is a door door frame so they use neoprene as well and there there's another one that uses neoprene but this very very effective so and it's easy to use I'm sorry well it depends on how wide you know if you have a if you have a single car garage we've seen them we've lifted them it we did one in town it's very easy with two people but it's not a strain you can lift it one person's there and you just have to align they have handles they have handles on the top that is that is aqua Shield um yeah that's not the height that this is just a mockup all of well that's a mockup up the mockup from Garrison um the other ones are actual height this is a picture of Garrison um Eric is right here with the glasses on be more than happy to answer your questions afterwards Garrison is very similar to what I did this is picture your doorway is this wide and each one of these things is on the side of your house you can see it there this is a garage door so there's one channel on one side there's one channel on the other that has five this one has four what they like to permanently Mount these things this is an outside Mount this is an inside mount so you this one is an inside mount on a garage store that's an outside Mount but when you put this on if this is installed permanently you can put them on either way they like to do it permanently I don't you know the way they're mounted um I wouldn't be opposed to me personally taking it on and off but if you leave it on all you do is drop these panels these planks down in and it literally takes you minutes to waterproof your house um they are these are you got a hold of that where's the other panel the other way now so if you look at these at at these planks they're tongue and groove and they have neoprene on either side and you just you set them down in you can see the tongue and groove on the top here and they they lock together and then what you have is you tighten down on the top okay so it compresses all the neoprene including the bottom which is bigger and then you tighten these and it presses everything back into the neoprene another very effective product that um I I should say should work I don't know anybody who's had it installed during a flood but my barrier work and this is very similar to my barriers this is better engineered and Better Built although I did I did uh uh tell a few people that you guys stole my idea I want royalties but that that is Garrison flood y yep we'll we'll get to that yep there's there's a couple things you can do which is the next one you got Bob all right all right this is the heaviest one out of the bunch this is Floodgate this company is internet based they're not going to come to your house they're not going to install it they're going to ship it to you in a box and hopefully you measured correctly uh this is an this gate has been on Fourth Street in Readington Beach and it worked I know it held the water out on the last two flots this worked the way this works on the back it has a scissors Jack and they give you a wrench and you just crank on the wrench to tighten it and it expands it and then there's this one has one two three four or four bolts on the bottom which compress down to give you the seal on the bottom this has worked I know it's worked I know people I know multiple people that have used this and it works it worked okay there's an example of it worked use it weighs a lot feel free to come up and pick it up no no they now make it they now make it comes in black no orange um this is this is effective in a doorway I don't believe it's going to work in a garage I don't think you could you couldn't lift it for starters I couldn't lift it so this is worked in doorways you got it then I'll lift the heavy one that now this all right this is damn easy all right this you can buy this it'll do a gar there's a garage door that it did is that is that Trevor's yeah that is his neighbors we know this has worked he gone through four storms on two homes never got any so no water four storms this has been tested extensively in Ireland and in Europe um we were we met the uh inventor and the CEO of the company the way it works is you've got a you've got a pump that pumps up an inner tube that runs around it to give you a seal you got to make sure that in the corner you get some Putty or something then cuz it's rounded if not it'll leak in the corners and then on top of that what's that works very well yours very well for the oh yeah so and the other thing is this device right here will expand it how many inches wide does it go Leo uh from 28 in to 43 in okay per panel there the smaller ones then yeah there's a smaller one up here you can look at as well like this has worked we know this has worked so um when you're looking at products we have a lot more on our website we have a lot of lot of different ones some are the ones they use here at madira beach I mean it's unbelievable Cru that have to yeah yeah it's not these not these but they have installation Crews that put up the ones around uh this building there are a lot of different products out there we tried to identify products that we've seen installed products that we believed worked or did work and the reps are here Leo is with damn easy over there like I said um Eric is here right up here and then Rafael and rafhael and Gabby from uh um uh Rapid or rapid Aqua Shield so they' be happy to answer your questions afterwards you guys don't see us our office is here in Largo onton Road you come to the showroom and get a demonstration right there we're The Local Company here for yep what do you got next let's see oh there was a question about uh sealing between the barrier and the between the barrier and the uh wall they make this in two different sizes you can buy the bigger ones at Walmart and if you can get them in between your door and a barrier this is very effective at keeping the water the rain water from going down behind uh I have something different I don't have a picture of it on those sometimes the Gap is wider and my neighbor came up with a great idea all he does is he takes a a razor and he cuts one of them and then hot glues it together and he makes it the size of the Gap yeah the the thing that I'm doing because mine are wood you could probably do it with aluminum as well I've got three hinges and a uh a piece of 8 inch wide vinyl that folds back with a noodle on the back up against the garage door I have three lines running down underneath the garage door I know it sounds complicated it's not and that I tie that down so that thing can't flap but it holds all the water out one thing that uh we have found by inspecting some of the other garages is the fact that the seal are dirty sometimes the seal are corroded and they're not uh level and people are sitting there having water even under heavy rain coming into the garage two options we've seen one is uh yes garadry which is a small barrier that glue down across the width of your driveway that gives you additional dimension in order for your current seal to sit tight we even stall that at our house because Heavy Rain was coming in and we were getting in and that we closed it with that idea uh the other way is to use something like a universal seal where you can go in remove the existing seal and they sell these at online and provide you the necessary seal with a cushion to seal up that garage door I I'll I'll just ask this who has cleaned the bottom of their garage seal in the last month since I told you they'll last a month ago do yourself a favor Jeff Jeff Jin did did you seal did you clean our seal on the clean the seal on the bottom of your garage door get it so it's it's clean and like I said if you do nothing else take this and run it down that seal and up the side of your garage door and this will help keep a lot of the water out if you do nothing else yeah yes yeah if you have a tight seal if you have if you have a h hurricane proof garage door go out and press against it just push it put your foot and try and pry it open and see if there's any play if there's no play that thing will not Bend under normal conditions so you're able to it and it won't Bend enough to break the seal so just check your garage door there's a lot of homes though we found with a garage door from 1973 and the Gap is that wide so check your garage store press one of our friends who has a hurricane garage door uses the garage door as his barrier and what he does is he wedges the garage door Wheels with a small wood wedge on each side just two levels up and with no effort you can't move that garage door so one it seals it from moving if you do use the seal and peel and secondly it ensures that you have the seal vertically between that little gasket and the door itself so it's a simple option we can't judge whether it's been effective under storm or not but logically it makes sense to us what else you got oh we're go we're going into the fun stuff now this is beyond basic Beyond basic this is an inverter I don't know if a lot of you know what an inverter is when I Liv in Maryland believe it or not we lost more power or power for more weeks out of the last 20 years than anybody has here over the last 25 years we lost power for three weeks and something like this powered our house okay and when I say powered our house we lost no freezers no refrigerators the TV was on the fans were on uh the lights were some of the lights we on this is a 1,000 watt inverter and we have a we have a we have a link on the website that shows you how to work this it hooks to your car battery it has two plugs on it and you just plug extension cords in run it into your house your car's got to be running so have a full tank of gas but it'll run for days outside the outside your garage goes without saying I hope but this this if you're in a pinch something like this will make life a lot easier for you so this is a th000 watt inverter this is a 2,000 watt inverter complete with fuses and everything else the thing I use this for if I'm in the house and we lose power I hooked this I have a big battery a big battery weighs 130 lb I connect this to the battery and I can run two shop at the same time off this so if I'm getting water that's coming into my house I've got two shop backs with no power running where I don't get water in the house so this is ex you know beyond basic but we have it it's there you know hopefully I'm not sitting there yelling at Liza like there it is over there go get but this this is a very effective I have used this for 20 years and I know these things work it's like a car battery it's a big car battery it weighs 130 pounds I got it on a doy and if there's a storm coming the shopx come in the house the uh the battery comes in the house and if the power goes out I just connect it and we have shop vacs in case my barriers or there's somewhere where it comes in I'm not aware of oh here we go this is even funner stuff aah adaah hit madira Beach pretty hard there were a lot of homes down south of here that flooded from the inside out I don't know if any of you know the people that you know had their house is flood from the inside out it's not fun your house is filled with uh a lot of the homes were condemned they were forced to tear them down they got their flood money so you got 240 you tore your house down you left with two and a quarter and you had an empty lot congratulations simple simple simple device this is called a Backwater valve okay the way this works there's a flap on the inside if you see the flap moving this goes into your sewer line the sewage comes out it's fine if the sewage backs up it can't go in it's just it's a very simple device It's very effective uh there's a bunch of plumbers that'll put them in for you that this is mine I put my own in is that stock broker training I had by the way by the way just I dug this hole and my neighbor over there can attest to it I dug the hole around the sewer line I stared at it for two weeks cuz this was the nastiest dirtiest I did not want to cut that thing I cut it I flush the toilet five times I cut it nothing happened I cut the other side nothing happened there was no smell there was nothing in it it was empty I put the new one on I was done in 20 minutes so a lot of people recommend you use a plumber most times you should use a plumber I had an expert plumber that lived beside me and um um different towns have different yeah check check your permit I don't know what the permits are in madira um most of the plumbers that I've talked to say you don't need a permit that's from the plumbers I would verify that but these things I take the flap out when I'm not when I'm here when there's a storm coming I put the flap in it you just untwist the top it might be on too tight it is untwist the top lift the flap out I keep it in the house in a plastic bag storm comes I drop it in and I'm protected I don't worry about back water coming into my house and I'll tell you what I keep stressing is no stress you put this in you're not worried about it what we used to do I'd shove towels down the toilet then i' put a sandbag on it but then you've got sinks and then you've got showers and you've got all this other stuff um Bob doesn't do Bob Bob sewer line is too deep to do this so what do you do so what we do is we use the uh the plug we find the right size plug that simply goes into the toilet and you just use the small bicycle pump and you pump it up and it expands and fills that for the shower and tub I take the grade off and I use a twiston plug that you just tighten into the discharge and that'll so and obviously we only have to worry about the first if we want to concern ourselves with the sink in our kitchen we you could cut off and put an adapter on you can seal that drain going up into the the flap comes out that's this this is a 3 in but the flap just comes out it sits right down in there and now you can see it's ready to go put the top on it and you're done by the way you put this in you can leave the flap in if you want to uh we have a neighbor down the street had the flap in for about three years it's him his wife and two 12-year-old girls 13 13 now and I said have you ever had a problem with your Backwater valve he goes not that I'm aware of I said if you had a problem you'd know it real quick so these things are very effective there's Bob's toilet hey yeah but very easy to do very easy to pump up I think we're questions you you can Richie what you can do on a kitchen sink is you can put in one of these depending on what you've got what what I'm doing on my kitchen sink is I'm putting a ball valve on the line underneath the sink where I can just turn the ball valve and that way it can't come back up okay these are things by the way these things that we're talking about now are very uh um these things are very specific they're over the top but ju I mean this is a neighbor of ours who put a sump to put two sump pumps in his bottom level he dug the pit he put these sum pumps in so if his barriers fail or if it comes over the top it he'll it'll there's one down his lower you can see the pipe coming up and it eject the water right out the side of the house if you really want to get over the top like some of the people we know okay and who do we know yeah Richard by the way wa one one other thing I'm going to comment on I'll get you in a sec um where your sewer line comes through the foundation what we're finding is they just made a big hole so the water can just go right through there so hydraulic cement you can hydraulic cement it shut and make it waterproof it's just one of those things if you want to go above and beyond do you want to talk about this stuff real quick sure I don't know what else you have in Beyond basic that's it all right this stuff if you have a wood wooden wall or a cement wall that you want a waterproof you can use something like this be product uh we have another product called Semco that that works you spread this you paint this on and then you paint over it to match your house and it'll waterproof your walls and if you can go down below where your block or your below grade and seal that maybe seal it with Red Guard which is paintable seal it with Red Guard so no water can get through that seam there's a lot of different things you can do use your imagination and hopefully um your house is waterproof you know from the next St but you can get 80 to 85% of your protection with the basic items that we talked about we just wanted to provide you with a list of some of the wild things that you do once you have the others done yes sir I have at which FEA says I shouldn't block how do I block them how many 16 wow the openings okay these These are asking about Square openings on the newer construction which there's what I've told people and don't tell FEMA no some of them are recessed so what you do is you cut a piece of this put it back in there and seal a peel on the outside seal and peel around the outside other ones if you if they're not recessed back in you you just take this you cut a piece and I've told him just tap con it to the wall and seal them peel around the edge I mean there's really it's hard to do but you can do it that's me personally that's what I would do um one thing I'm gonna uh talk anybody with a three-o slider those are the worst I hate those things they're very difficult to do so you can do it it's just difficult to do you know most likely the easiest solution is to call one of these guys and have them put a barrier up for you but anybody else any other questions oh way in the back why is it is it all on yours yes yes yes so on the on the first page we have the website we have everything for you I I'm just G we're we're basically done right yep I'm just going to close by saying thanks for coming I hope everybody learned something you can waterproof your home I've done it and I have no technical background in waterproofing anything so if I can do it you can do it and if you need help um you know you there's plenty of people around just ask ask ask people thanks thank you thanks come on up if you want to see the products for