How Fast Should I Work to Get Professional Restoration After a Flood?

4/21/2020 (Permalink)

You can contact our professionals 24/7.We understand the need for rapid response and restoration to minimize the loss of your property.

Flooding Can Cause Substantial Structural and Content Damage to Your Jamestown Home, But We Respond 24/7 When Disasters Strike.

Flooding is a situation that homeowners cannot adequately prepare for, and with many affected homeowners in Jamestown without adequate insurance coverage for the restoration, you need a team dedicated to making it as cost-effective as possible. This saving starts with fast response when you need it. By beginning mitigation efforts right away, more of your property and its contents can get protected.

A timely response is everything when managing rapidly migrating flood damage in Jamestown homes like yours. We can work to acquire information about your disaster over the initial phone call that you make to our staffed emergency line. The more pertinent details that we can gather from the start, the better prepared we are for the severity of the situation when our technicians roll out from our facility.

How Can I Help Until Professionals Arrive? 

There is not an extensive list of actions that you can take safely when flooding has occurred. In its earliest stages, it is still possible to perform a handful of tasks while you wait for our SERVPRO team to arrive. While we have our emergency services that we can provide, including both extraction and controlled demolition, you can help to make restoration faster and more direct with:

• Content Relocation 

Your belongings in the house are often one of your first and primary priorities when flooding occurs, as much of your possessions are irreplaceable. A practical action that homeowners can take is to remove the most valuable of these items along with you when possible and relocate other potentially exposed contents to an unaffected area of the house. 

• Assessing the Situation

You know your home better than anyone, so you can tell when things do not look, smell, or feel as they normally should. We often utilize this input from our customers to better gauge where more work and attention might be necessary.

• Cataloging Damages 

Keeping track of your ruined belongings and what structural elements have become overly saturated and damaged by migrating flood water can save our project manager time in assessing the property. You can also note pre-existing conditions or damages to the house so that these do not get included in the estimate.

How Do I Know SERVPRO Will Arrive Quickly? 

Saying We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster is a catchy slogan, but it is also a bar that we have set for every technician and representative of our team. We have many techniques to ensure that we get to emergency flooding situations within hours of the initial call to our emergency line. We can ensure a prompt response with:

• 24/7 Staffed Emergency Line 

When you have an emergency, something is calming about speaking to a real person who can help to direct you in what you can do to help your home now and reassure you that you have help on the way. 

• Stocked Production Vehicles 

Water losses are among the most common callouts that our professionals address throughout the year, and many of these same tools used in the extraction and drying of water losses are necessary to mitigate flooding. With production vehicles stocked with powerful extraction tools, specialty drying equipment, and cleaning products, we waste little time at the warehouse preparing to roll out.

• Experienced Professionals 

Experience can make a difference in how efficient restoration and recovery efforts occur. Because our team has seen many flood damage situations, we have a better idea of the situations to expect and the best setups and equipment placement to maximize production.

What Are the Most Efficient Flood Removal Tools? 

Extraction is always a vital element of flood loss recovery, even when standing water is not present. Absorption into carpeting and wood plank flooring can make pooling water not a concern, but the same degree of water damage exists. Removing water and moisture from both the surface and inside of the exposed materials involves several advanced extraction tools in our SERVPRO inventory, including:

• Truck-Mount Extractors
• Sump pumps
• Wet Vacuums

Is Reconstruction Necessary After All Floods? 

Of all the loss incidents that our team responds to, flooding is one of the situations that most often requires some degree of controlled demolition and build back. From storm damages to your home that can allow water to penetrate from the roof to natural flooding that pours into lower levels like your basement or crawlspace, exposed materials can either begin structurally compromised or require removal from suspected contamination. We have an in-house team of licensed residential contractors that can help to make this need a seamless transition from mitigation and restoration phases.

Post-flood recovery can be a challenge for homeowners that are unsure of what needs to happen to restore their property. Our SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean can help with a fast response that can show you the steps to make flood losses “Like it never even happened.” Give us a call today at (716) 338-4901.