What Can a Homeowner Do if They Find Water After Their House Gets Flooded?

10/23/2020 (Permalink)

When flood waters enter your home, call SERVPRO for extraction.

When You Need Flood Extraction Services in Your Milton Home, Call SERVPRO

Even though the season just technically changed, severe thunderstorms could still strike the Milton region and cause flooding conditions. During a storm, wind can destroy your roof or windows and create a leak. Water can also enter your dwelling from the outside if it rises from the ground or pours in from your lower door seals.

What is your approach when I have standing water on my floor?

Flood extraction inside your Milton home from a professional company such as SERVPRO can become necessary if you have an excessive amount of water built up on your floors. To start, we first pull out as much liquid as possible during the extraction phase using the following equipment:

•  Submersible Pumps: Sump pumps can be useful when extracting standing water more than two inches deep.
•  Heavy-Duty Extractors: Once most liquids get removed, we can then use a heavy-duty extractor to remove the remaining moisture from hard-surfaced floorings such as linoleum or tile.
•  Removal of Porous Materials: Since water entering your home from the outside could contain harmful bacteria, fungi, viruses, or parasites, our SERVPRO technicians must remove and dispose of any porous items such as wet carpets, rugs, clothing items, or upholstered furniture.

What is the next step after the extraction process?

•  Thorough Inspection of Building Materials: Once we have removed as much liquid as possible, we use specialized instruments to inspect your building materials like your drywall, subfloors, ceilings, and framing.
•  Calculate How Much Drying Is Needed: During the inspection process, we test both affected and unaffected sections of your house to figure out how wet your building materials got. We then use these measurements to formulate a drying goal and decipher how much drying equipment we will need.

When a storm forces water into your house, call SERVPRO of Sullivan and South Ulster Counties at (845) 791-7647 24/7.