Knoxville Flooding, SERVPRO There Fast Mitigates the Damages

8/14/2022 (Permalink)

Flooding in your home can often feel overwhelming and leave you contemplating how to mitigate. Call our SERVPRO team to remediate the damage.

The First Steps in a Rapid Response to Flood Damage in Knoxville

Within four hours of your first call to SERVPRO to help handle flooding at your home, we should have technicians on the ground evaluating and controlling damages. Years of experience have helped us to perfect our damage mitigation strategy and continuously add to our lineup of high-tech tools and machinery to improve our speed and efficiency when dealing with the average water damage crisis. Although our specific strategy and process may differ depending on the situation and what your home needs the most, you can expect our rapid response to (more or less) follow these steps.

Initial Evaluation

Most of the time, the first SERVPRO employee to arrive at your flood-damaged home in Knoxville is our inspector. The inspector's primary objective is to identify the source and extent of the damage in your home and draw up a plan of action that can rectify the problems in as little time as possible. Dependent on the time of day and the severity of the storm damage, this person may arrive and conduct his or her inspection before our technicians get to work, or may operate alongside them.

Water Extraction

One of the initial steps we take (when necessary) is to set up water extraction pumps in your home. These powerful pumps take standing water out of your home and pump it to the street. Not all floods require the use of these devices, but without them, it can be almost impossible to remove water from a basement or a low-lying area in your home.

Drying Technology

The SERVPRO method of drying is focused on efficiency and speed to prevent as much damage as possible from happening after a disaster. Without rapid drying, your home may start to develop problems such as mold growth and foundation instability. We set up powerful air movers that, by generating strong air currents in the affected parts of your home, pick up water, and carry it in the air. Then, we use industrial-grade dehumidifiers to collect the water into buckets that we can safely dispose of outside your home. Once the area is dry, we can get to work preventing and reversing any other damages that might have happened, leaving the area looking "Like it never even happened."

SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville has years of experience helping local homeowners overcome flood damage to their homes. Call us 24/7 on our emergency line at (865) 862-8907.