How To Prepare Bushfire:
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1. Do a bushfire home self-assessment: Complete Resilient Building Council’s online home assessment app to get a resilience rating and find out how to make your home more resilient to bushfires.
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2. Check your insurance cover: Check your cover each year to make sure you have the right level of cover for your home and contents insurance.
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3. Prepare your home:
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Trim overhanging trees and shrubs, keep grass short and remove debris from your property.
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Seal gaps around doors, windows, external walls and cladding.
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Install metal gutter guards and fit metal mesh screens to windows and doors.
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Enclose areas beneath your home to prevent ember entry.
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Ensure hoses are long enough to reach all sides of your house.
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Keep your fireplace chimney clean and well maintained.
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Store flammable items, including woodpiles and mulch, well away from your home.
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“Simple actions like trimming trees, clearing leaves and debris, sealing gaps around doors, windows and external walls, and keeping flammable materials, including woodpiles and mulch, well away from your home can significantly reduce your risk. You can’t stop a bushfire, but you can reduce how vulnerable your home is.”
How To Prepare Bushfire:
1. Do a bushfire home self-assessment: Complete Resilient Building Council’s online home assessment app to get a resilience rating and find out how to make your home more resilient to bushfires.
2. Check your insurance cover: Check your cover each year to make sure you have the right level of cover for your home and contents insurance.
3. Prepare your home:
Trim overhanging trees and shrubs, keep grass short and remove debris from your property.
Seal gaps around doors, windows, external walls and cladding.
Install metal gutter guards and fit metal mesh screens to windows and doors.
Enclose areas beneath your home to prevent ember entry.
Ensure hoses are long enough to reach all sides of your house.
Keep your fireplace chimney clean and well maintained.
Store flammable items, including woodpiles and mulch, well away from your home.
