What Do Professionals Do to Clean Up Water in My Newington Home?

5/10/2020 (Permalink)

Water damage in homes can put a burden on your family. Contact SERVPRO to mitigate water damage.

When You Call SERVPRO to Address Water Damage Found in Your Newington Home, You Get Prompt, Reliable Service

Water loss events leave Newington homeowners wondering what steps to take next. You may have slight damage that presents with staining on your ceilings or walls. There are some incidents like a burst pipe that sends vast amounts of water into your home and through a variety of hidden spaces. Calling in the professionals to handle the restoration helps give you peace of mind that no moisture lingers and causes mold or mildew to develop. This is where our skilled technicians at SERVPRO are trained and ready to help!

Why Do I Have to Worry About Hidden Moisture?

To efficiently address water damage in Newington, our team works fast to inspect and remove any materials that have absorbed a great deal of moisture. Failure to do so causes secondary damage and the potential for harmful microbial growth. Once we arrive at your property, we:

•   Perform a detailed inspection
•   Formulate a plan for restoration
•   Remove any standing water
•   Extract moisture from carpeting, flooring and behind walls
•   Implement drying and dehumidification practices
•   Perform controlled demolition, if necessary
•   Use moisture detection devices to find hidden pockets of moisture
•   Thoroughly clean, sanitize, and disinfect your interior

Our team must work fast because your belongings and porous materials take on water and rapidly:

•   Become contaminated with pathogens and microbes
•   Begin staining from the colors transferring from bleeding
•   Start to distort, warp, and swell
•   Produce foul odors

Why Can’t I Use a Wet/Dry Vacuum?

In slight water loss situations in Newington, a wet/dry vacuum may be able to pull up visible water. However, it is the hidden moisture that is concerning. Our team leaves no stone unturned, and we ensure all water is removed from your interior to move forward with the drying process. Just a sampling of the tools that we bring with us for our water restoration technicians (WRT) to use include:

•   Truck-mount extraction equipment for removing hundreds to thousands of gallons of water
•   Submersible pumps for standing water over two-inches deep
•   Portable pumps
•   Light-wand extractors
•   Movers, or ride-on units, which use the weight of our technicians to push the carpet down to pull water out

What Does Water Migration Mean?

Water dispersed into your home migrates to drier spaces. Our skilled technicians follow the path of migration to ensure all areas get addressed adequately. We have a range of moisture detection tools that help to measure both humidity levels and moisture under floors and behind walls. What this does is help us to ensure that no water is left behind so that additional damage festers.

What is a Controlled Demolition?

Various materials throughout your home have the potential of recovery with proper drying methods. If mitigation starts fast enough, hardwood flooring has the potential for full restoration. If you have a composite wood floor or subfloor, it deteriorates quickly after being exposed to water for an extended time. Our technicians remove the damaged flooring so that it can be replaced. Drywall tends to wick significant moisture as well, so flood cuts are made to remove unsalvageable portions. This also helps to expose the wall cavity to enhance dry times.

In situations where the wood flooring seems salvageable, our team may put down dehumidification mats hooked up to a system of air hoses. This complex system enhances drying times to restore the flooring and speeds up the overall drying process.

Smart, Complete Drying is Essential

Our skilled technicians monitor drying in your Newington home to make sure that the levels of indoor humidity fall under the range for germination of mold spores. This also helps us to avoid musty odors from developing. After your structure is deemed dry, we then work to meticulously clean and sanitize all surfaces with our EPA-registered, proprietary disinfectants. All of this is done to ensure that you have a clean slate so that the reconstruction can begin.

Reconstruction and Restoration

In any instance where the flooring gets removed, flood cuts were performed, or there were holes drilled in your walls to facilitate drying, reconstruction must begin. SERVPRO offers everything that you need for recovery and rebuilding to ensure your home looks as good as new. To restore your home to preloss conditions, all damaged materials that were removed get replaced, and it ends up looking, “Like it never even happened.” This will include new flooring, new drywall, new baseboards, new paint, and whatever else is necessary to bring your interior back to normal.

Whether you have hidden water damage behind walls or your flooring needs particular attention, you can trust that our technicians at SERVPRO of Newington/Central Hartford take care of it for you. Call us at (860) 667-9191, and we will send out a team as quickly as possible to begin the assessment and restoration.