Avoid Permanent Damage from Flooding with Correct Water Damage Restoration Techniques
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How to Restore Your Home After Flood Damage: A Step-by-Step Guide
Flooding can seriously damage a home, even in just a short amount of time. If you’ve recently suffered from flooding in your home, you may be wondering if restoring your home is possible.
Luckily, saving and restoring your home from flood damage is easier than you may have thought. Flood restoration services like those offered by Dry Concepts can help prevent the need for reconstruction of your home and replacement of personal possessions with state-of-the-art techniques and procedures.
The Importance of Immediate Action After Flooding
Having a flood in your home or place of business is a major inconvenience, and you’ll want to get your life and routine back to normal as soon as possible. If you’ve experienced water damage, it’s crucial to contact professionals right away to avoid further complications, such as mold and structural damage.
Step 1:Removing the Water
Removing excess water from your home is crucial in Florida due to the humid, sticky weather. With appropriate measures and the proper drying methods, flood restoration services can help you prevent mold and mildew from spreading in your home. Therefore, it is important to begin the cleanup and drying process as soon as possible, even before you hear from your insurance company. Most policies require that immediate action be taken to minimize damages.
Our team of certified technicians will come and thoroughly inspect your home. Once they have determined the equipment needed, they will be able to go in and remove the water and set up a drying system to maximize results.
The drying process can be a bit cumbersome, but Dry Concepts certified technicians are trained to minimize any inconvenience this event has caused you and get you back to normal as soon as possible.
Step 2: Disinfecting and Preventing Mold Growth
Once the water in your home has been removed, if needed our certified team will use an anti-microbial disinfectant treatment to prevent the growth of mold and mildew. This is essential to protecting the health and wellness of you and your family.
Our technicians will place drying fans and dehumidification equipment throughout your home and continuously check on your property every day until the job has been completed.
Any walls, wood, and furniture that were in the floodwater will be inspected and processed to prevent the growth of mold and mildew.
Step 3: Restoring Carpets and Rugs Affected by Water Damage
You most likely have carpets or rugs throughout your home that have been affected by the flooding. After the water has been removed, we will dry-clean your carpets and rugs and use our infrared cameras to make sure there is no moisture remaining.
If your home features oriental rugs, rest assured—we can restore them to pre-loss condition or better. Our advanced technology and skilled methods will clean your most delicate rugs, helping your home return to its original state before the flood occurred.
Recovering From Flood Damage
If you find yourself in a situation where your home has experienced severe water damage, you don’t need to panic. Our team of professionals can help restore your home to its former glory and help walk you through the insurance claim process.
We understand how difficult it can be to get back into your normal routine when it has been disturbed by severe flooding. Our knowledgeable staff will take the utmost care of all your personal belongings with respect and attention to detail it deserves as quickly as we can, with as little inconvenience as possible.
Contact Dry Concepts for Expert Flood Damage Restoration
If you need help beginning the cleaning and drying process after a flood has occurred in your home or place of business, contact us today. Dry Concepts will send out an inspection team to determine the best course of action and restore your home as quickly as possible.