Land Survey From GreenLightReport.co.uk Can Protect Your Investment

If you are worried about the potential of flood damage to your home, one Sheffield based firm offers a chance to find out what the risks are through their website portal.

With climate change now a real concern for so many of us, we are constantly seeing homes across the UK being damaged by flooding. The risk of flood has never been greater, with what seems like months of rainfall often falling in just a few days. Sheffield based company Green ASAP Ltd know only too well, having been affected directly by the great Sheffield flood of 2007.

Not just for peace of mind but also for insurance purposes, most of us would like to know the extent of the risk of flooding in the areas we live. This kind of information has previously been hard to attain, and is something we usually only come across at the point of either conducting land searches when moving house, or when we try to get house insurance for the first time. Finding out that you live in a flood plain after buying a new home is a potential nightmare.

Burst banks are not the only reason why there can be water damage to a property either. Flooding can result from a wide range of events and processes, and there is a misconception that that managing flood risk is all about dealing with flooding caused by rivers. But a significant proportion of flood related insurance claims within the United Kingdom are from non-fluvial flooding. That is from sources other than rivers.

The GreenLightReport uses some of the most sophisticated flood risk information available alongside the standard Environment Agency flood plain information in order to give you the best possible indicator to the flood risk associated with your property. In addition, unlike many flood risk providers (insurers included), the GreenLightReport looks at the data in relation to your actual property and not the generic post code area in which it is located. The flood information is looked at by highly trained Environmental Surveyors and is not an automated computer driven process. And the fact it is available on the internet for less than £30 means the data you want is more accessible than ever.