Helping Restore Your Property With Water Cleanup Services Resolves Overflow Issues In Durham

9/19/2018 (Permalink)

A clogged drain in a running sink can lead to your bathroom sink overflowing.

Helping Restore Your Property With Water Cleanup Services

A clogged drain in a running sink can lead to your bathroom sink overflowing. Your Durham area home can sustain severe damage if this water remains on your floors. Water can easily saturate carpeting, the flooring underneath, and eventually end up in the ceiling of lower levels in your house.

When a resident in Durham finds such a mess, water cleanup begins at once by mopping up the visible water. Once you call us, SERVPRO professionals arrive and start by measuring the amount of moisture remaining in your floors, lower walls, and other materials. We track the water so we can more efficiently clean that up, also.

An overflowed sink typically involves clean water, which means saving your carpeting remains highly possible. Flooding, however, when it comes from outside your home or from a contaminated source like a back-flowing septic drain, means many damaged sections of your home require extensive cleaning.

September is National Preparedness Month, and many of the same tips homeowners learn for preparing for flooding can carry over to cleaning up much cleaner messes. Quickly removing objects that sit in the path of oncoming water can save them from needing restoration work later. Even after you turn the water off at the source in a stopped up sink, the water already on the floor continues to spread.

As the water flows outward, it slowly begins to evaporate. This release into the air creates water vapor. Our moisture detection units can read the amounts released into the air. If hot water was involved, this could increase the amount of water vapor the air holds. As this warmer air cools to room temperature, condensation on cooler surfaces in the area rapidly takes place. Turning on a fan can help keep condensation from occurring before we arrive.

Once we begin working, we use heavy-duty air movers and dehumidifiers to remove the water that escaped into your home's air. Floor mats that extract the moisture hiding there help remove what our extraction wands left behind. As our work continues, we monitor the drastic reduction of moisture from your house's materials and the air. Water cleanup also includes wiping down and sanitizing any belongings, walls, and other surfaces that came into contact with the water.

SERVPRO of North Durham's 24-hour service number, (919) 467-0880, is answered by qualified professionals who can provide you with immediate assistance when your home needs water cleanup services. Always Faster To Any Size Disaster, we work with families in Weaver, Upland, and Rougemont protect their homes all year long.

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