1. They bought a dam too short to go all the way around in a COMPLETE circle. 2. They didnt use use stakes to keep the dam narrow and tall instead on fat and low. 3. They set it up WAYYY too far from the house making the needed length too long to make a circle. They product works. You just need to be smart. That dam he bought should be 30" high after installed if done correctly.

@DoronBond

Жыл бұрын

Good assessment..especially #2. 2022…Ian got us thinking about this…

He obviously didn't set his up properly. Looks like it wasn't even surrounding the entire property. Looked uneven in places and Dende still has my extra ps4 controller.

@floofygod

3 жыл бұрын

O.O oh god...its you... STAY AWAY GO AWAY AHHHHH

If the water is higher than the dam, no structure in the world will keep your property dry.

They installed it incorrectly. I don’t see a closed loop. So of course water is going to seep in. Common sense dictates you need to have the aquadam all around your house in closed loop

@railgap

3 жыл бұрын

And you always have to pump, even with the correct setup. They absolutely work - there's plenty of evidence - when installed correctly, but they aren't magic and they don't work by themselves.

They did not install it correctly

@DJMichaelAngelo

4 жыл бұрын

how so?

@bride4jesus0126

2 жыл бұрын

Too wide is too flat….narrow is taller. General physics and common sense!

All this video shows is that they didn't get a large enough aquadam. Not the fault of the product if you get one that's too small!

this is a very wide and deep dam buuuuuuuuut you need HEIGHT here

Well aqua-damned, looked like he did a shitty job.

Two words FLEX TAPE

It didn’t look as tall as the other ones I saw installed.

This guy wouldn't survive a sea bear attack

well duh. it all depends on how tall the floodwaters get and how tall the aquadam is. You could always lay two on top of each other- that would have worked. or add a tal layer of sandbags or concrete to keep the aquadam structure taller.

@seapearltoo1

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly...this video's title is misleading and bad publicity for the AquaDam...10News should be sued! :P

@Yung_Hefty

6 жыл бұрын

omg hey there he didn’t put enough water in it.

@Ahmad-Str

4 жыл бұрын

If you lay two on top of eachother, the aquadam on the base might burst since it might not be designed to resist that much pressure

This is such a powerful crucial video! It brings up the #1 most important point about these AquaDams that most people don't realize: they're only worthwhile if you know AHEAD OF TIME how high the water levels will get! You could blow $8K like this poor guy did on a 3-foot tall barrier tube, but guess what: if Mother Nature has other plans, and the high-water level ends up being 4-5 feet higher above your ground level, then guess what? Your 3-foot high Aqua Dams are now worth exactly $0 dollars :( Still I'm going to look into this option more because I live in a flood plain, and it'd be nice if these things were available to rent from local home-improvement stores or construction supply house type places.

@007bogossemre007

4 жыл бұрын

Also a good thing to note is that he might have tried to save as much of his property as possible and stretched his Aqua Dam too wide and hence he didn't create a closed loop like he should have.

@tjanderson5892

7 ай бұрын

@@007bogossemre007exactly. You could tell he knew he effed it up which was also why he projected confidence about running it back and fairing better the 2nd time lol. Guess his lots on a slight hill or something so he thought he could stop the head on flow and disperse it around and down behind him maybe? Lol idk bc making a partial border around your home to keep water out is the same as having 7/10th of a swimming pool and expecting to keep water in lol 😂

If the dam is full of water, once a flood comes and gets up to near its top, the dam will have near-neutral bouyancy and water could also come underneath. Or am I missing something?

@Ishiku__aka_xchoibitschibihil

6 жыл бұрын

John Dough nope. Also calculate more than 50% of your needs the damn cannot be handle past 75%

They did instal it correctly just next time try closer and around the house it will be higher that is all

This is misleading. The Aquadam didn’t malfunction. There was too much water.

Did the news reporter say shit ?

@Craftasticalness

6 жыл бұрын

He said "He won't try to save that shed too, instead he'll wrap it around the tree"

It’s for flood waters not a hurricane!

The best way to avoid flooding is to build your house on a high base surface above the ground if you are constructing on from scratch or on high elevated hill ground but if already build on flat surface I'm afraid that there is no solution to this, floods have unpredictable behaviour.

@johndough9187

6 жыл бұрын

Duh.

@justhuman3977

6 жыл бұрын

The Dutch knew this before white people entered whats now called USA

@DJMichaelAngelo

4 жыл бұрын

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, in other words

Did unitedstaters ever consider building houses (with real bricks from bottom to top) instead of foam, plywood and drywalls?? Also, not building in the street/soil level but rather at least 1m up? These situations are so frequently and yet they keep building these shacks, paying the amount of a mansion and calling it a house 😂😂😂

NEED HIGHER SIZE AQUA DAM....

It does work dur dur dur its nothing more than a calculated risk

This video shows that he didn’t install it correctly. blame the installer not the product.

It was just too much water, if it wasn't so extreme it would have held. Sorry bro

If your home is hooked to the city sewer system, NO dam will keep water from coming up out of your shower drain. Duh

@Alfaomegabravo

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something you can fix if you know about it beforehand.

@brobrah4595

6 жыл бұрын

Actually just by adding 1 check valve to your drain pipe that solves that problem. Next?

I know people live in houses they can afford but if you live in a known flood/ hurricane area and your home gets destroyed,damaged or need to be rebuilt. Why do you keep rebuilding the same house that doesn't give you any protection. When I lived in the area I saw many houses on stilts or made if this happens. It does cost more but not as much as if you had to rebuild the house 5 times. The same goes for houses in wild fire areas they also have special things you can do to protect your home.

make sure you have alot of other equipment ready in case something goes wrong flex tape pumps etc

This is not Aqua Dams fault this is fake news the guy that installed it didn’t do it correctly he did it down the hill where the water level rose higher than the dam