What Steps Can a Homeowner When Water Has Invaded your Home?

4/12/2020 (Permalink)

We use tools such as dehumidifiers, air movers, drying mats, and ventilation fans to encourage any lingering moisture to evaporate.

What You Can Do When You Find That Your Home Needs Urgent Water Removal Services

There are many ways in which you can come to find that your home requires the assistance of professional water removal services. When it comes to your home, a broken water supply line from your washing machine allowed a lot of water to leak out onto your bathroom/laundry room floor. When you found the water, you realized it was just too much to clean up on your own and knew it must have been there for a few hours, at least. 

Call a water damage restoration specialist. 

Knowing that the best thing you could do for your home was to call for help immediately, you reached out for water removal services in the Lenoir City area. Leaving your bathroom flooded would be irresponsible, as water damage has the potential to get worse as time goes on. While you may mop up the visible water on the floor, you don't know how much was absorbed into your tile flooring or the wooden base of your sink. Excess moisture can feed mold spores, which are omnipresent, and can lead to a variety of new problems that are expensive to fix. 

Calling SERVPRO in your hour of need was the best thing that you could have done to preserve the longevity of your home. Now, our technicians can quickly assemble and travel to your home as swiftly as possible. When SERVPRO arrives, our Estimator can do the initial investigation of the damage and answer any questions you have. Afterward, our technicians can get to work. 

SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville always uses advanced industry-grade equipment to get the job done. To remove the excess water lingering in your bathroom, we can use both extractors and wet/dry vacuums. Once the standing water has been removed, SERVPRO can focus on drying out the floor. We can use tools such as dehumidifiers, air movers, drying mats, and ventilation fans to encourage any lingering moisture to evaporate. 

Increase Mitigation Success with Specialists When Water Damage Destroys Your Harriman Home 

Porous materials such as drywall, paneling, and wood flooring can sustain severe damage when conditions change in your Harriman home. Preventing such damage from becoming permanent, or from spreading to other areas, keeps restoration costs as low as possible. 
 
Specialized training of technicians helps ensure proper and complete mitigation of Harriman water damage in properties with such problems. Water can alter the color of upholstered furniture, cause carpeting to wear abnormally fast, and leave stains behind on walls and ceilings. Corrosion of fasteners and difficulties in opening and closing doors and windows with wooden frames also stem from any unwanted or misplaced water. 

Intensive Water Damage Training

 
Our technicians receive intensive training and education to complement and strengthen the skills they acquire during their work. No job is too small, nor too large, for SERVPRO specialists to mitigate. A small amount of water can cause expensive problems inside a home. These problems do not always cost a homeowner in a monetary manner. Corrosion of electrical wiring can cause intermittent outages, flickering lights, and higher electric bills, or a fire that begins inside a wall and spreads throughout a house. Prevention early on helps keep such incidents under control. 
 
Understanding this and other nuances of water damage and the importance of proper mitigation help keep us focused on the needs of restoration crews in completing the work on your home. Because of this, we always clean up the areas instead of merely pulling out damaged materials. 
 
We understand that it is crucial to take readings of adjacent materials to ensure moisture has not penetrated otherwise seemingly dry sections of the wall. We also explain the possibility of secondary water damage as it pertains to your particular property, what signs to look out for, and what steps you might take to decrease the possibility. 
 

If a broken supply line causes an appliance to leak water, never wait around to get help. Use your phone to contact SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville by the number (865) 986-3015. 24/7, our doors are open, and we're ready to help you.

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