Spring can Bring Flood Damage with it to Harriman Homes

5/27/2018 (Permalink)

Flooding can happen very quickly and be devastating. Contact SERVPRO for remediation services and restoration options.

Remediating Flood Damage Involves Water Extraction and Cleaning By Certified Technicians

Lakes and rivers surround Harriman and many area families spend time bonding with each other while spending time enjoying different recreational activities near them. Heavy rainfall and snow melt from higher altitudes can make these bodies of water swell and eventually overflow into our neighborhoods.

If your dwelling rests in a lower-lying area, flood damage can happen to your Harriman property very quickly. Moving your more valuable assets and belongings, including canned foods and perishable ones, as well, to higher levels of your home can provide the protection needed to keep them usable during the flood's aftermath.

This protection only lasts for a short while because the interior of your home after a flood recedes retains the moisture left behind. Evaporation of floodwater quickly disperses through your home, loading the air with humidity. Once moisture condenses on objects, water damage can easily take place to the very items you sought to protect.

Our professional flood damage mitigation specialists can help stop this process by clearing your home of standing water and then removing the remaining moisture. When we finish this process, removing the moisture from the air happens much more easily.

Cleaning your home so that no debris such as pathogen-filled silt, sand, or mud remains behind can seem tedious, but working in teams, we efficiently break down each task into simple steps that we quickly finish. The faster we work, the sooner we finish, and the more quickly your family can return home to live in their own home "Like it never even happened."

One aspect of a flood-damaged home that rarely survives covers your floor. Carpeting often becomes so saturated with debris, pathogens, organic matter, and other particles from the flood that replacing it becomes more cost-effective than a thorough cleaning and other restorative work. The benefits of removing such carpeting include the removal of the water saturating it, as well as the pathogens, as well as gaining direct contact with the underlay so we can more easily dry it out. Another added plus involves the lack of an odor-causing source, making odor control management much more easily attained.

SERVPRO of Loudon & Roane Counties wants to help families in the areas near Oak Ridge, Greenback, and Pawpaw Plains recover as easily as possible from the catastrophe of flood damage. When a flood hits your home and affects your family, call us at (865) 986-3015 so we can provide you with expert advice and compassionate guidance through the recovery period.

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