Flood Damage In Your Delta Home

12/29/2019 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Montrose / Telluride at (970) 240-6970 arrives quickly on-site to clean up and restore your property from flood damage.

Flood Damage and Flooring in Delta Homes

When flood damage occurs, how much loss there is to the property and contents demands mainly on two main points. The first is the type of water affecting the home. It matters whether the water is rain, snowmelt, or groundwater, which carries the potential for more significant loss. The second is how much time passed between the event and the cleanup.

Floors often get the worst of flood damage in Delta homes. If the water is from rain or snowmelt, it is not hazardous in most situations for homeowners to move items in the way of the water to another area. When flooding is from groundwater, it is best to wait until the techs arrive on-site to test the water to determine what contaminants or bacteria are present.

Tile Flooring
Vinyl and laminate flooring attached with adhesive often delaminate, which also usually means the subflooring requires drying. When this happens, the SERVPRO techs gather the tiles and determine if they have the potential for reuse through cleaning and disinfection. This attention to detail during mitigation helps save homeowners the cost of replacement.

Carpet
When a carpet receives saturation from floodwater, the outcome can vary. If the water is from rain or snowmelt and the cleanup started within 24 hours, the prognosis to save the carpet and padding from loss is favorable. However, if the carpet soaked up groundwater, which is a category three biohazard, both the carpet and padding require disposal.

Concrete Slab
This type of foundation has one of the positive outcomes, no matter what kind of water is on-site. The techs have equipment for the extraction of any depth of water and drying the flooring quickly. Concrete may effloresce, with a white powdery residue after drying, but SERVPRO techs wipe it away with their proprietary cleaning agents, so there are no residues left behind.

SERVPRO of Montrose / Telluride at (970) 240-6970 arrives quickly on-site to clean up and restore your property from flood damage. With their training and professional equipment, they make the flood loss, “Like it never even happened.”

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