The Australian bush is brutal, fire can come from any direction and you need to be ready for it. EmberAttack is one part of a larger solution to protect your home in a program of maintenance and prevention creating a waterfall from your gutters.
It's a simple process to install your EmberAttack kit and this is why it's such a powerful defense during ember attack. During peak fire periods and when water supply is available, the cascading 'waterfall' around your home's perimeter provides maximum protection. The Watergate valve blocks your downpipes in seconds, flooding your gutters until they overflow. This creates a continuous water curtain that extinguishes embers before they can ignite your eaves, one of the most vulnerable points bushfires typically take hold. Use this mode whenever you have access to water supply for the most comprehensive ember protection.
To install EmberAttack cut a 100mm section into your down pipe to install EmberAttack with the Watergate valve at a manageable height approximately 1200mm off the ground.
Please note please positioning the connectors above the Watergate Valve
Once EmberAttack is installed into the downpipes make sure all joins are water proof using suitable pipe adhesives and silicone adhesives.
To create the Waterfall effect which back fills your gutters:-
Ember attack is the most common way houses catch fire during bushfires, occurring when wind carries burning debris (embers, twigs, leaves, bark) far ahead of the main fire, lodging in gaps, gutters, or on flammable materials around a home to ignite it, often before the fire front even arrives. These burning fragments can travel kilometres, creating new spot fires and overwhelming properties with multiple ignition points, making defense crucial.
How Ember Attack Works
Why It's Dangerous
Protection Measures
My house has come under EmberAttack and it has many roof segments. A roof sprinkler system my neighbours have doesn’t deal with all segments and issues. Embers can settle under Solar Panels in corners that normal sprinklers don't get to. With EmberAttack system you place one sprinkler run on the ridge cap running the full length of the roof and have a seperate run line covering the solar panels and hidden corners and you do this for each roof segment.
The Waterfall system is more suitable where you have a permanent water supply like a big town or city that backs onto the bush and you can connect a garden hose and there is plenty of water.
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EmberAttack Waterfall is the basic option providing protection to your gutters and around your house from EmberAttack.
All roofs are segmented where the water when it rains drains to one point. This is our collection point for EmberAttack. From here we install the ridge sprinklers and then build on the system by running additional lines with sprayers to those hidden areas where embers can collect.
It's not the fire that destroys most homes. It's the invisible ember attack that rains down kilometres ahead of the blaze. Up to 90% of homes lost in bushfires are destroyed by ember attack - not direct flames.
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