What are Some of SERVPRO's Water Drying Techniques?

4/13/2020 (Permalink)

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How SERVPRO can help dry your home after water damage

If a problem takes place and your Bearden home happens to suffer from an indoor flood, many steps get taken to remove moisture. Too much moisture inside your house can ruin contents or building materials. If moisture is left unattended, it is possible that mold growth occurs. 

Mold Prevention after Water Damage

To prevent mold from developing inside a building the water must get extracted and then dried out. SERVPRO’s water damage technicians in Bearden get trained in using the industry’s best extraction and drying equipment. Whenever moisture becomes an issue, we use specialized equipment to extract all water out of materials such as carpet and upholstery. 

After any standing water gets pumped out and we use our extraction tools on your furniture and carpet, we start the drying process. Any time we dry out a structure, our goal is to return moisture levels to preloss conditions. We accomplish drying by speeding up the natural evaporation process. 

Typically, when drying out a building, we use a combination of air movers and dehumidifiers inside the affected area. The job of the air movers is to push air into a circular motion. As water evaporates from wet materials, the air next to the surface becomes saturated with water. The air movers push away the wet air replacing it with warmer, drier air. 

After wet air gets removed from surfaces, it gets pushed into the center of the room. Dehumidifiers then suck in the moist air and remove the water from it in liquid form. The dehumidifiers then exhaust out warm, dry air for the air movers to use to push around the area. 

The ratio of air movers to dehumidifiers must be balanced for the drying process to get completed correctly. If there are too few air movers to dehumidifiers, the drying process does not happen as quickly as it should. Having too many air movers to dehumidifiers can cause secondary water damage. 

Water can take three forms when it becomes misplaced in a Bearden, TN home. In attics and basements, as well as on roofs and gutters in the winter, ice can form in the coldest parts of the home. Inside, liquid water can show up in small drops from a minor leak or a flood. Either of these can bring about conditions where humidity in the air dramatically increases.

When a situation arises in a Bearden home involving misplaced water, SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville specialists expertly perform the needed services to restore the home to its preloss condition quickly. We also perform the work needed to ensure that similar incidents become much less likely to occur again in the future.

Our Green Fleet arrives Faster to Any Sized Disaster, complete with the water removal equipment and ready to begin extracting the water causing harm to your home and your family's possessions. Water damages anything within reach, and that reach includes anything within your home's entire space. Because humidity travels everywhere, no place remains entirely off limits.

When water comes from situations in the upper areas of your home, either from ice dams on your roof or an upstairs bathroom's leaky tub drain, water can seep downward and affect anything along the way. You can see the effect of floods and broken water pipes much more quickly, but both can cause extensive damage to your residence. We use hygrometers and other devices to locate the water in whatever form it takes, so we see exactly where to concentrate our efforts.

After pumping out the water wherever it collects in more than a few inches, we begin using other kinds of extraction equipment. We use different methods, according to IICRC standards, to re-establish normal levels of moisture and humidity inside your home. Almost everything contains some moisture, but excessive amounts can become a problem quickly. We compare readings taken inside your home of water-saturated materials to known and accepted amounts listed for those same items.

Then we use different machinery and equipment to eliminate the water and check for damaged areas that require further attention. Some materials sustain damage rather quickly, and these can cause problems when we do not replace them. However, our rapid response helps keep this to a minimal amount.

Our IICRC certified technicians use their experience and knowledge to determine how many dehumidifiers and air movers to put into an area. For professional help with drying up moisture, call SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville at (865) 862-8907 24/7.

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