Call Us If Your Jamestown Home Experiences A Flood

1/30/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean at (716) 338-4901 is ready to help local homeowners with flood damage.

When Flood Damage Happens in Your Jamestown Home

Statistically, there is a one-in-three chance that a structure in New York will have flood damage happen during the period of a 30-year mortgage. Common causes are flash floods due to heavy rains, hurricanes, and snowmelt.

While there are some things, homeowners in Jamestown can do to avoid flood damage, such as making sure the grade on their property directs water away rather than toward the home. Also, the installation of additional drainage is another course of action that helps inhibit water damage to the residence. Flooding is not one-hundred percent avoidable.

Why SERVPRO?
The technicians have the equipment for professional-level water removal, and that includes using their state-of-the-art equipment to locate the migration paths of floodwater as well as extract it. Because of their training for all types of loss, the techs also know how to proactively treat the property to avoid mold and odors as a secondary issue from the flood loss.

Professional Water Extraction and Drying
The equipment used for extraction is dependent upon the amount of water the techs are cleaning up. They primarily use portable pumps for fast removal. If the water is more than a couple of inches deep, they have submersible pumps that allow them to deal with large amounts of water. Drying the property is meant to bring the indoor humidity down quickly to avoid mold and additional damage.

Common Tactic for Flood Loss in a Home
Even a half-an-inch of water in a home can leave substantial damage behind. It has the potential to wick into sheetrock, requiring removal to halt the damage to the wall as well as open up the wall cavity for drying. SERVPRO technicians cleanly cut away damage building materials so it can undergo repairs easily after wiping and cleaning the property.

Prepping the Home for Repairs and Reconstruction
After damage from flooding in the home, it is common for some areas to have the sheetrock removed down to the studs, and in some cases, tile delaminates and loses its grip, which requires removal.

SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean at (716) 338-4901 is ready to help local homeowners with flood damage. They have the advanced equipment and expertise to turn the loss around and make it, “Like it never even happened.”

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