What to do if your Home Floods?
Posted on June 9, 2017
It happens without warning and wreaks untold damage to your home in a small amount of time. Whether it’s a broken pipe, excess moisture, or even a natural disaster, flooding can cause untold amounts of damage to your home, leaving you stranded and without knowing what to do next.
Though if you have recently experienced flooding within your home, it is important to quickly mitigate the amount of damage to your home and call professionals to aid you with remediation immediately. If left improperly treated, water damage can quickly begin costing a home owner untold amounts in repairs not to mention the potential hazards that begin to arise once the water has been removed.
Water damage can potential spell danger for you and your family…
Water damage pervasively takes a hold of a home leaving behind damaged and wet struts, dry walling, and floorboards. If left improperly repaired homeowners not only run the risk of damage continuing to spread but even put their family’s safety at risk.
Soggy and damaged dry wall can easily break loose from the ceiling potentially harming anyone unlucky enough to be underneath. Floor boards run the same risk of becoming a household hazard as damaged wood can give way under the weight of a loved one’s foot.
Beyond the risk for physically harm posed by water damage, unchecked water damage can soon become a source of a variety of health hazards. Depending on how your home becomes flooded, you could easily experience an influx of mold growth or bacteria collections. If you were unfortunate enough to suffer a burst plumbing pipe, your home could potentially be teeming with harmful bacteria that have proliferated throughout your home. While mold in itself offers its own collection of hazards for your family.
Properly Remediating Water Damage with the Assistance of a Professional…
Often the damage sustained to home from flooding is so extensive it may require vast amounts of reconstructive repairs to reverse the damage. This can easily become a task far beyond the means of even the most well-meaning home owner. As damage can affect a variety of surfaces in your home and may even affect your electrical wiring, it is important to allow a professional to proper assess the extent of the damage while finding the most effective way to repair your home.
This may include repairing large sections of dry wall throughout your home, replacing damaged support structures, and even repairing the electrical lines throughout your home. Even more so, your home may need to be adequately sanitized to ensure that mold and bacteria will not begin to infest your home and lead to more costly repairs further down the road.
So it is essential that a specialist is called in to inspect and repair your home as soon as the source of your flooding has been contained. The longer damages is left untreated, the more costly the repair quickly becomes, so schedule an appointment with your local specialist and avoid having to spend more than you should.