Flood Barriers & Flood Bags (19 items found)

Whether you live in a recognized flood risk area or are concerned about occasional heavy rainfall damaging your property, flood barriers provide an ideal way to keep water away from your home's weak points to prevent damage, erosion and inconvenience.

Why Choose Flood Barriers for Homes? 

Our flood barrier products provide fast protection against high waters from storms or overflowing waterways and are easy to install. They require no sand or concrete to fix them in place. Simply stack the flood bags around the areas you want to seal off, and either wait for rain or douse them in water with a hose. The carefully formulated contents will absorb the water and turn into a durable gel, providing an impermeable barrier against excess surface water in as little as 10 minutes.

What's more, once the flood bags dry out fully, they can be removed and put into storage during dry weather before being quickly installed again when a flood risk returns. The bags' contents are non-hazardous and non-toxic and will naturally decompose at the end of their life without environmental damage.

Where Can You Use Our Flood Barriers? 

Flood bags can be placed anywhere around your home that's at risk of flooding, including:

• Around guttering downspouts and other areas where water builds up in heavy rain. 
• Along pathway and driveway edges to divert water safely into sewers or other channels away from your property.
• Alongside waterways and drainage channels, or even around garden ponds, to guard against temporary overflows.
• Alongside running water to provide long-term erosion control. 

For maximum versatility, flood barriers can be stacked on top of each other to offer adjustable protection as the water levels rise, with each bag reaching its full height within minutes of activation.

Door Flood Barrier Solutions 

You can use flood bags as viable door flood barriers. Place them between doorways and typical water paths to protect your home’s interior or put them inside an exterior door for fast emergency flood protection without sandbags. 

You can also find flood barrier doors that can be fitted between many doorways due to extendable sides, with an inflatable tube helping to seal water out. 

Where Can't You Use Fast-Acting Flood Barriers? 

While our door flood barrier products are activated by regular water, they're not suitable for managing swimming pool water that contains chlorine, as the chemical causes a reaction that dries out the protective gel. Similarly, flood barrier bags aren't effective against salt water or in areas with a high lime content that can leech into the surface water.

Choose Your Flood Barrier Size 

Our flood barriers are available in a range of sizes to suit different installation needs. At the smaller end, a door flood barrier measuring around 60 inches is ample enough to protect most typical doorway sizes, with even smaller bags useful for covering crawl space vents and other openings.

At the other end of the scale, flood bags measuring more than 200 inches in length are ideal for edging driveways or creating sturdy channels to divert water away from larger areas of your property.

Shop the Flood Barrier Range at Ace Hardware 

When you need quickly activated water protection that's simple to install and remove, the flood barrier options at Ace have you covered. Browse those options and more in our masonry and cement department to ensure your property is protected in time for the next storm season. Shop online and enjoy quick home delivery or in-store pickup at your local Ace Hardware store.