SERVPRO Crews Repair Your Water Loss to Pre-Loss Condition

6/7/2022 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Crews Repair Your Water Loss to Pre-Loss Condition Supported by Best-Practices Training and Experience, and Cutting-Edge Equipment

Water emergencies in your home can have many causes. Plumbing leaks, appliances break, and structures lose integrity and water tightness because of storms or deferred maintenance. Regardless of how the water loss starts, it is urgent to respond quickly because of the corrosive effects of water on structural components and the risk of exposure to secondary damage. Our technicians can help, but what does that look like? How disrupted will your life become?

My Wet House Is a Mess! What Steps Do Restorers Take Initially to Calm the Chaos?

Your need for water damage repair in Bridgewater is immediate after the event resulting in the harm occurs. A supply line break or appliance malfunction can pour or pump hundreds to thousands of gallons of water into your house in a short time. Walking downstairs in the morning or through the door after work can find you at least ankle-deep in water if the loss happened overnight or when you were away from home. When we arrive, our first focus is on shutting down the water main if not done already. Then we concentrate on a safety review of the scene to ensure neither occupants nor restorers are in danger of encountering any of the following during cleanup and repair:

    •    Slip, trip, and fall hazards
    •    Electrical shock
    •    Other utility line breaks
    •    Contaminated fluids
    •    Dispersed or broken asbestos or lead-bearing building materials
    •    Collapse of structures because of water trapped in building cavities

How Do Professionals Handle the Bulk of Water Removal?

Once the project manager identifies and creates management strategies for safety concerns, SERVPRO technicians begin emergency services, including aggressive water extraction. If overhead water exists, we make sure to secure the surface and then punch “weep holes” to release the fluid carefully, keeping technicians and occupants away until the majority of the water drains to avoid injury. Crews position submersible pumps for water deeper than two inches. Any visible standing water remaining after pumping, we suction out using truck-mounted extractors. The pumps and truck-mounted equipment are powered by gas or generators, permitting us to move on this task even if live electricity is temporarily unavailable.

What About Removing Water in Confined Spaces?

Water can migrate anywhere inside your home, including hard to access spaces. We consider different plans of action to respond because to avoid severe consequences, no water can be left behind:

    •    Portable extractors with extensions to lengthen their reach, worn like backpacks by technicians who walk and direct them into closed-in areas
    •    Injectidry or similar systems that use negative air pressure to pull migrated water from several layers of flooring or behind baseboards using adhesive mats or hoses threaded through holes
    •    Planned, controlled demolition to open up a surface trapping water, such as flood cuts sawed several inches above the water line or holes drilled into mortar joints in cinder block construction

Why Does Drying Follow Extraction?

If you search for hints on how to handle wet building materials, advice to open windows and use fans is common as a first step. Experts wait to focus on these and other professional drying techniques until all liquid water evacuates because research proved that adding pre-drying extraction is far more effective than drying alone. We also calculate how to position air movers most advantageously, manipulate temperature, and choose the type and number of dehumidifiers to achieve the most successful drying outcome. Moisture levels measured and monitored during the drying phase guide our practice, making sure that the drying is complete, but that we do not overshoot the mark and overdry materials that could crack, warp, or otherwise break down.

Although I Am Glad, the Water and Moisture Are Gone, Whom Will Help Put My House Back Together?

Our pledge to our customers is firm. We strive to bring you back full-circle to preloss condition. We invest in an in-house rebuilding and construction division within our firm, ready to:

    •    Consult and assist with the mechanics of above-head water release, including providing structural support if needed
    •    Plan and help implement the specifics of controlled demolition, such as making the cuts and holes
    •    Assess the repair and rebuilding needs for structures damaged by the water incursion or the efforts made to extract water and dry out moisture.

The full spectrum of services offered by the team at SERVPRO of Bridgewater, Sharon can resolve residential water damage completely, “Like it never even happened.” Do not waste a second -- call us at (508) 697-5439 to get the process started.