Flood Damage To Your Noble Property

1/28/2017 (Permalink)

Flood Damage Cleanup And Restoration

Water damage from a burst pipe or West Branch Boone Creek overflowing can severely impact a home and its contents. Restoring your home is a process that needs a professional company which understands the requirements of both internal and external damage. Flood damage in Noble can also come from a damaged sewer line or even if the Canadian River breaks its banks. SERVPRO has decades of experience in all of these scenarios, a 24-hour response team, and has an extensive inventory of tools to deal with them all.

First, we examine the source of the flooding and attempt to either fix or block it. Our technicians do this to prevent a recurrence of the problem once we have pumped out any standing water. If not, any effort to remove it is like trying to bail out a leaking boat in the rain.

With the visible water removed, the next step is to deploy industrial-sized water extractors. These devices remove water that is trapped in your wooden floors and carpets. The goal here is to prevent warping and buckling of floorboards, to stop rotting and mold growth in carpets, and to prevent odors from developing. To ensure that any remaining moisture is drawn out, they then use special heaters that dry the affected areas without scorching the nape of the carpet or warping floorboards with excess heat.

Now that the water has been removed, our technicians use moisture meters to ensure that your home's humidity levels are normal. If the levels are not, then they will set up dehumidifiers to draw water out of the air and set up commercial-grade air movers to increase air circulation, replacing the damp air with a drier atmosphere.

Finally, we check the affected floors and walls for possible fungal and mold growth. Lowering the moisture level to normal will stop further mold growth, but if there is already existing mold, our technicians need to determine if surfaces and property can be cleaned or needs to be removed.

With no rain anticipated for the next week, now is the ideal time to call us at (405) 292-0808 to deal with previous flood damage or even to schedule an inspection to learn how to prevent future problems. SERVPRO of Norman is here to help you return your home and your life back to normal.