Water Damage Restoration: Assessing Damages to Your Home

Water damage can take place within a business or home due to a myriad of reasons, including leaky roofs or pipe burst flooding, even as part of the effort to extinguish the flames. If your property or business is affected by water regardless of the cause you should act fast to limit and stop the Water Damage Restoration.

 

Restoration for water damage is performed by experienced companies that aim to restore your property back to its original, un-damaged state. The business will visit to assess the damage, determine the effects it caused, then place an amount of value to the loss, and provide services to repair your property.

 

The water restoration company you hire will decide what kind of water damage you are in on a scale of between one and four. One damage is a moderate water damage to one area or room in which carpeting is not saturated. Damage of level two usually includes at minimum one space that is saturated and spreading the carpet between 12 and 24 inches. Water damage of level three generally is caused by overhead damage, such as from a leaky ceiling , and the room is saturated. Four is the highest damage amount and is used for extreme saturation, such as from flooding.

 

Alongside finding out the extent of damage to your house The restoration team for water damage must also determine the extent of water pollution. Water contamination of level one for instance, is considered to be pure water, such as that from the rupture of a water pipe. Level two water contamination could contain a few contaminants that could cause health problems if consumed and is classified as grey water. It could be a result of an overflow from a washing machine as well as a dishwasher overflow. an overflow from a toilet that isn't contaminated with urine, but could contain feces for instance. Three is black water and is regarded as the most unsafe for sanitation. It could be a result of an overflowing toilet containing waste, sewage spillage or flooding water from a canal or river for instance. The black water is considered to be unsafe and is likely to cause sickness or even death if it is consumed. Standing water also falls into this category irrespective what the origin.

 

After these assessments have been made after which your restoration team will begin to work on getting all the moisture out. It could mean pumping the standing water from the house and sucking the water out of flooring and carpet. The next step is to take down any dry wall with wicking , and possibly the structural beams and insulation when they are damaged. Flooring could need been removed to be removed or replaced based on the kind of water damage that has taken place.

 

After the company dry and deodorizes, the equipment, they'll leave it in place for a couple of days to allow the drying process to continue throughout the house and return the moisture and temperature to their normal. After two to three days, they will check the condition of the house. If the property has reached the pre-water damage dryness the equipment is taken away and the home is rehabilitated.