Our team at Overhead Door Company of Charleston wants to help you protect your home or business from a variety of risk factors. For example, we can help you prevent unauthorized access to your property with our access control solutions. In addition, we can help you prevent flood damage to your building with our garage flood vents. We encourage you to keep reading to learn more about garage flood vents and how they work.
- What are garage flood vents? – A vent is an opening in a wall or other surface designed to let something pass through. Your air vents allow the movement of air between rooms, and garage flood vents allow the movement of flood waters from one side of the garage door to the other.
- Why are garage flood vents necessary? – The purpose of garage flood vents is to protect your home or business from flood damage by preventing the buildup of hydrostatic pressure. The most severe flood damage, the kind that destroys buildings, happens because of buildup of water pressure on one side of the exterior wall—eventually, the force of all that water becomes strong enough to make the wall collapse. A garage door vent allows flood water to move into the garage, which evens out the pressure across both sides of the door and prevents the kind of excess hydrostatic pressure we just described. Your property may still experience some water damage, but the vent will help mitigate and prevent structural damage, which helps ensure your building remains intact.