Restoring Residential and Commercial Water Damage

7/25/2017 (Permalink)

Restoring Residential and Commercial Water Damage

A home or business that has suffered water damage is in imminent peril. Water damage that is allowed to sit and fester can begin causing irreversible structural and superficial damage to the property within 24 hours. Left for more than a week, most properties that have sustained serious water damage will become uninhabitable.

Luckily, there is a sure-fire solution. Calling water damage restoration professionals can almost always ensure that a flooded home can be completely restored to its prior state. Restoration professionals have specialized equipment, years of training and the expertise of a hundred-year-old industry that can be put to work for you, bringing quick restoration or your property.

The mitigation of flood damage should begin as soon as the flooding even has occurred. Even if a pipe break or supply line break seems small or containable, if there has been water spilled onto the floor of the property, a professional restoration company should be immediately called in.

The restoration process follows a well-establish, five-step procedure. This procedure is a proven means of mitigation of flood damage. Here, we'll take a look at the flood damage mitigation process, in detail.

The most important element of a successful water cleanup process is the one that the restoration company has no control over. The person with the water in their business or water in their home must immediately place a call to the restoration company, in order to begin the water cleanup process as quickly as possible, avoiding the rapidly increasing chances that permanent damage will be done to the flooded home, which begins as early as two to five hours after the flooding event.

The next step in the water cleanup process is the arrival of the damage control team to assess the extent of the water in the business or water in the home. Using high-tech equipment, like hygrometers and infrared hydro-detectors, the team will be able to spot water in the home or water in the business that has seeped into hard-to-spot places. Once the extent of damage to the flooded home has been accurately assessed, the team will move onto the next phase of the water cleanup.

At this point, the team will bring in the real heavy machinery, truck-based, industrial-strength pumps and sophisticated vacuum systems that will begin extracting water in the home or water in the business at rates as high as a couple thousand gallons per hour. This is a job that must be undertaken by professionals. A homeowner attempting water extraction will cause incomplete removal of the water. It will also lead to crucial delays, which may increased the risk of permanent damage many times.


The next step is the commencement of drying the home, its contents and its structure.
The flooded home will be outfitted by application-specific drying systems, which are capable of removing thousands of pounds of moisture from material and the air each hour. The drying process may take as little as a half hour or as much as a full day. But at the end, the home will be water-free, and the risk of any further or permanent damage from the flooding event will drop to zero.

The last step is sanitization and cleansing. This removes any nascent mildew or mold formations as well as eliminating any lasting smell.

When there is a pipe break or supply line break, the single best thing a homeowner can do is rapidly get in touch with the restoration professionals. While a pipe break or supply line break is always a serious occurrence, it can be contained and handled by professionals. A supply line break or pipe break should never cause a catastrophic property loss.
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