Video transcript: different viewpoints – Jill1
What NOT to do in a house that floods!

But after 5 or 6 years of not having flooding, the houses all changed hands, especially the ones in Lax Lane and Severnside South, which is where the defences are being built now. You found that incomers came in who had no appreciation that the houses were in the flood plane; who put in fitted carpets, fitted kitchens, filled their kitchens with white goods, moved all the plugs down off the walls onto the skirting boards again, and restored the houses using gypsum plaster rather than the lime plaster which survives flooding much better.