Read This to Change How You View Water Damage Remediation in Durham

4/30/2019 (Permalink)

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SERVPRO Handles Water Damage in Durham from an Aquarium Accident

Aquariums are a fun hobby many people enjoy. They range from the small five gallon tanks to large saltwater installations that can take up entire wall spaces. An aquarium can also be a potential source of water damage in a home.

When SERVPRO was called to mitigate water damage in a Gorman basement where the slate bottom from a 20-gallon aquarium had cracked and failed, aquarium water may look clear in the tank but once it is on the floor, the debris, uneaten food, aquarium residents and foul odor make it clear this is a gray water cleanup. The homeowner had quickly picked up the fish and relocated them; however, gravel and water remained on the basement floor.

Our local emergency response team arrived within four hours of the initial call to start the cleanup. SERVPRO technicians quickly extracted the water from the concrete basement floor and scooped up the gravel and debris. The area rug was removed for drying and disinfecting outside the work site.

Concrete is porous, and during drying, the air movers cause water vapor that has wicked into the concrete to rise and dry as a white residue that is easily brushed off. Once the affected floor area was dry, our technicians disinfected the flooring with our EPA-registered cleaners.

After a water loss such as this, more robust deodorization methods are sometimes needed. We have several methods such as gel pellets for covering odors and equipment such as hydroxyl generators which neutralize odors at the molecular level. Since the concrete seemed to be where the odor was emanating from, our technician chose to use ultra-low volume (ULV) fogging to eliminate the odor. This is a solvent or water-based deodorizer delivered as a wet, dense fog that penetrates in the same way the water initially did.

SERVPRO of North Durham is available 24-hours a day at (919) 467-0880 to come to your home and mitigate any size water loss event and make it "Like it never even happened."

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