How to Rainproof Your Home This Monsoon

Monsoon is a season when life bursts into being when both animals and plants welcome new life. Unfortunately, it is also the season that can cause the most damage to your house. However, there are a few things that you can do to your house to prevent or, at the very least, minimise the damage from the rains.

Prevent against flooding

If you live in an area that is prone to flooding, examine why that happens. If the drainage is not good enough to support a day with heavy rain, overhaul the drainage system to make it more efficient to handle a larger volume of water. If the flooding is due to the land being low and not the drainage, you’d be better off raising the floor of your ground floor house to make sure no flood water enters your house.

Leaks in walls or ceiling

If you live in an area that experiences heavy rainfall, you’ve probably experienced leaks in the walls and ceiling. Getting the leaks plugged on the outside, at the source, is the best fix for the problem. This should ideally be done before the onset of monsoon, with the detection and filling of cracks in the walls and ceiling. A coat of paint wouldn’t go amiss either. Sometimes fixing leaks can turn out to be an expensive affair, and a personal loan will help you make up the difference—it is disbursed quickly and easily, with minimal rates of interest these days.

Waterproof paints

If you’re going to paint your house, do it with waterproof paints. You even get a waterproof putty to help prevent leakage. If all else fails, tiles are more expensive than paint, but they will help prevent the leakage from disfiguring the walls. If tiles are your only resort, but their cost is prohibitive, a home renovation loan will help you meet the financial requirements for it.

Check electric connections

If your house is relatively old, taking a look at old electric connections will be necessary, especially if the wiring is concealed in the walls. Relating it to the previous points of leakage, if the walls have water seeping through them, the electrical conduits in the walls will offer the water an easy channel, and the results of mixing water with electricity are always disastrous. If you live in a house with concealed wiring that requires replacement, you can either lay down new wiring on the outside of the walls or replace the concealed wiring and ducts, which is not always an affordable option. Personal loan interest rates these days aren’t very high, and this might be a good solution to retain that beautiful clear look that concealed wiring offers.

Improve ventilation

If you live in an area where it rains for days on end, it will be all too easy for mould and fungus to take root in the house. When you look to renovate your house to rainproof it, make sure that you don’t compromise on ventilation, or else the high humidity in the air will give you trouble.

Why choosing a personal loan to rainproof your home is good

Rainproofing your house updates not only the looks of your house but it also improves your quality of life. Personal loans for home renovation are quite common these days, and the process of applying for home loans has become very streamlined, and disbursal takes a very short while, with minimal documentation required. Lenders even have tools like personal loan EMI calculators to help you understand what the EMIs will look like before you’ve even applied for the loan. A personal loan might just be the boost you require to make your house truly monsoon ready!