Closing an entrance to your home

Climate change is causing increasingly heavy rainfall. Because of these heavy rainstorms, there is also a greater chance of flooding. This may call for measures to better protect your home from flooding. One such measure is to permanently seal an entrance to your home.

What does closing a passageway involve?

Permanently sealing an entrance to your home means removing a door and bricking up the passageway. When sealing a passageway, the door including the frame is removed and the walls are bricked up and grouted. This prevents water from entering that area in the event of flooding. If a door is located just where a lot of flooding occurs, sealing this passageway is an effective solution.

Cost

The average price for bricking a door is €115 per m².

Space use

This measure makes sense if water flows into your house through the front or back door, a door or other opening on the first floor into the basement or the garage under the house.

What do you need.

If you have no handyman or masonry experience yourself, it is smart to hire a contractor.

Tips

Have the wall treated by a specialist to make it waterproof.