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Flood-hardy, drainable, dryable wall

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Flooded Homes: Drying Everything Out After a Flood

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Flooded Homes: Removing Standing Water & Mucking Out

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Floodwalls and Levees

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Foil-faced rigid foam and spray foam can be used to insulate a basement on the interior; use good moisture management techniques to keep the basement dry

Foil-faced rigid foam and spray foam can be used to insulate a basement on the interior; use good moisture management techniques to keep the basement dry
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Footing drain pipe is located exterior of the footings below the slab and is surrounded by washed stone and filter fabric.

Footing drain pipe is located exterior of the footings below the slab and is surrounded by washed stone and filter fabric.
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Formable pan flashing and back dam for window

Formable pan flashing and back dam for window
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Foundation details where waterproofing continuity can be a concern.

Foundation details where waterproofing continuity can be a concern.
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Foundation Wall Exterior board insulation without above-grade wall insulation

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Foundation Wall Exterior board insulation without above-grade wall insulation
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Foundation wall interior polyisocyanurate, foil-faced, exposed

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Foundation wall interior polyisocyanurate, foil-faced, exposed
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Foundation wall interior rigid insulation with framed wall

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Foundation wall interior rigid insulation with framed wall
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Foundation wall interior rigid insulation with furring strips

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Foundation wall interior rigid insulation with furring strips
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Fully Flashed Window and Door Openings (1)

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Fully Flashed Window and Door Openings (2)

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Fully Sealed Continuous Weather Resistance Barrier (2)

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Furred-out siding

Furred-out siding
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Furring strips are installed over a foil-faced rigid foam sheathing to provide a drainage plane and ventilation gap behind siding.

Furring strips are installed over a foil-faced rigid foam sheathing to provide a drainage plane and ventilation gap behind siding.
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Furring strips provide a ventilation gap between the coated OSB sheathing and the fiber cement siding.

Furring strips provide a ventilation gap between the coated OSB sheathing and the fiber cement siding.
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Furring strips provide drainage gap behind lap siding; screen is added at bottom and top to prevent entry of insects and wildfire embers.

Furring strips provide drainage gap behind lap siding; screen is added at bottom and top to prevent entry of insects and wildfire embers
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Good water management practices like sloping grade away from house, and installing gutters, perimeter drain pipe, a capillary break, and free-draining soils or drainage mat protect the foundation from water saturation.

Good water management practices like sloping grade away from house, and installing gutters, perimeter drain pipe, a capillary break, and free-draining soils or drainage mat protect the foundation from water saturation.
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Grade-level drainage

Grade-level drainage
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Green Coast Enterprises built this New Orleans home on piers so that the floor is 1 foot above the base flood level; borate treated framing and closed-cell spray foam insulation add to the home's moisture resistance.

Green Coast Enterprises built this New Orleans home on piers so that the floor is 1 foot above the base flood level; borate treated framing and closed-cell spray foam insulation add to the home's moisture resistance.
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Gutter channel

Gutter channel
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Gutters and downspouts direct rainwater down and away from buildings to keep building walls and foundations drier

Gutters and downspouts direct rainwater down and away from buildings to keep building walls and foundations drier