Can I Tackle Water Removal on My Own?

9/23/2020 (Permalink)

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SERVPRO Technicians Use Many Water Mitigation Techniques and All the Right Tools to Address the Loss in Your Lafayette Home

Even if you want to save money by tackling water removal yourself, you need to know that there are many steps involved to ensure your interior is appropriately dried. Many of these steps call for industrial-strength tools and industry know-how, so it is most often best to enlist trained water restoration technicians (WRT). When you call SERVPRO to help with your Lafayette home's mitigation efforts, we get to work efficiently to limit the loss's impact.

Water mitigation in Lafayette gets to the heart of the matter rapidly to get back to your routine faster. Our IICRC-certified staff has access to countless extraction tools on our Green Fleet of vehicles, which allow us to pick the perfect equipment for each project. We come in to inspect the water damage so that we can determine the level of severity. We formulate a plan that may utilize multiple tools for water removal to prepare your interior for the drying phase.

How Do You Handle Standing Water?

When you have a lot of standing water inside your home for one reason or another, prompt extraction is vital. Standing water leaves your contents and building materials exposed to moisture that can lead to a breakdown. As soon as we have our plan in action, we remove surface water as quickly as possible. Many of the other measures we take to restore your interior cannot begin until we ensure all standing water gets removed.

Numerous benefits come from our water mitigation strategies, including:

• Surface Water Removal –Depending on the nature of the surface water present, it could hold contamination that poses a potential threat to your household inhabitants and our responding technicians. We consider injury risks with standing water in your home, including possible shock or slip hazards, before we proceed with water removal.
• Saturation Reduction – Having surface water threatens any materials that may be exposed. Water will migrate to dry areas within your home, and some wall systems and flooring can be more susceptible to moisture than others. We work to remove saturated and unsalvageable porous materials, such as drywall and any carpeting or carpet padding.
• Water Migration Prevention –As mentioned, removing standing water is critical to ensure it does not have a chance to migrate. Any moisture left to migrate and fester will increase your chances of secondary damage.

What Tools are Used for Extraction?

SERVPRO keeps a broad range of tools and equipment in our inventory to address pooling and standing water within your Lafayette home’s loss zone. To decide what devices to use, we factor in:

• The severity of the water damage
• The depth of the water within the loss zone
• Any areas where the water migrated
• The types of materials that have been affected

A lot of these decisions are taken care of during the initial inspection phase before mitigation. Our team must select the right extraction tools to cut back on the amount of time and the water restoration project's cost. Some of the more common options our SERVPRO crew may choose from when working on water mitigation in your Lafayette home include the following:

• Truck-mounted pumps
• Submersible pumps
• Wet vacuums

What About Carpeting Where Water Migrated?

The way we address wet carpeting will depend on how much water migrated to the area and the carpet fibers' sensitivity. We also treat the secondary padding to ensure that the subfloor has or does not take on too much damage. Because We are Faster to Any Size Disaster, it allows us to work on salvaging carpet whenever possible. Just a few of the tools or methods that we may use includes:

• Carpet Wands –Mobile extraction tools and wet vacuums are imperative for interior restoration after water damage. We have a selection of individual attachments that help us to pull up excess moisture from the carpet fiber layers and padding in the most efficient manner possible.
• Rovers –Also known as weighted extractors, this equipment uses the technician's weight to force moisture up through the carpeting for the onboard vacuum to lift.
• Controlled Demolition –In some situations, it might not be possible for us to salvage the carpeting in or near the water loss zone. In these instances, trusted contractors may remove the carpeting and portions of the flooring if the damage has gone to the point where recovery is impossible.

We train and certify our SERVPRO of Lafayette team to handle water mitigation projects of all kinds. Call us 24/7 at (765) 420-0077 and our team will make it "Like it never even happened."