Water damage is nothing new for homeowners. It can occur as a result of burst pipe, leaky roof, flood or even due to an effort to put out a fire incident. However, as soon as your business or home experiences water damage, it is important to act quickly irrespective of the source in order to contain the damage.
2. Water damage is nothing new for homeowners. It
can occur as a result of burst pipe, leaky roof,
flood or even due to an effort to put out a fire
incident. However, as soon as your business or
home experiences water damage, it is important
to act quickly irrespective of the source in order
to contain the damage.
3. Water damage restoration should be done by professional companies so as to
restore your property back to its original state before the damage. The
company is expected to come in, carry out an assessment of the damage and
place a value on your loss and service to restore your property. The water
damage restoration company should be able to categorize the water damage
you have from a scale of 1 to 4. For example, a level 1 kind of damage
portrays light water damage to one area or a room where the carpet is not
saturated. Level 2 involves at least one entire room with a saturated carpet
and wicking of walls up to 24 inches. The overhead damage such a leaky
ceiling and saturated room constitutes level 3 while level 4 is the highest
damage which is reserved for deep saturations like what you have in flood
cases.
4. That aside, the water damage restoration expert, may also need to
determine the category of water contamination after assessing the
damage to your home. For example, some water restoration
companies may classify category 1 contamination as clean water
such as from a broken water pipe. Category 2is that which begins
with some degree of contamination and could cause sickness or
discomfort if consumed by humans.
5. As with Category 1 water, time
and temperature can cause
Category 2 water to become
progressively more
contaminated. And Category 3
water is that which is highly
contaminated and could cause
death or serious illness if
consumed by humans. Examples:
sewage, rising flood water from
rivers and streams, ground
surface water flowing
7. Once these assessments are
done, then your water damage
restoration company will
assemble a team to get the
water out. In some cases, it
may require pumping water
out of the home or extracting
water from surfaces.
Removing affected building
materials which cannot be
restored, disinfecting and
cleaning surfaces and finally
setting up equipment to
structurally dry out the
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among other Bio-recovery services. We specialize in restoring badly water damaged
homes since 1998. To show our expertise, we have won ANGIE’S LIST award for
water damage restoration for the past 5 years in a row. No one has ever achieved that
in this industry. No matter how badly the situation is even if it is an emergency, you
can call on us at any time and always speak to a live person answering your calls 24
hours a day including all weekends and holidays and we will get the job done
immediately.