Flood Damage can Harm Your Home, Your Belongings, and Your Health in Hampton

3/22/2017 (Permalink)

Flooding happens. SERVPRO's quick response can resolve the issue fast and with less chance of secondary damages.

SERVPRO's Quick Response Can Help Prevent Mold Growth

Flooding in your home can happen in several different ways. A broken water line or kids playing a prank with a hose placed through a window and then turned on can fill a home with water faster than might seem possible. Sewer backups from clogs can also happen. Moreover, there is always the traditional flood, caused by too much rain or melting snow.

Regardless of how your Hampton home goes underwater, any of it can cause flood damage. Even clean water from a busted water line or a misplaced hose can cause enormous amounts of water damage. This water can also become contaminated and create health problems in addition to the damage it causes to walls, floors, furniture and doors.

With flood damage, SERVPRO knows that we need to remove as much water as we possibly can and as quickly as our trucks can pump it out. For smaller floods, any secondary water damage can still affect the entire home if it is not sufficiently removed.

Water will damage many items on contact, including walls and floors. Painted walls can bubble or blister, and those with wallpaper can do the same. Both types need to be replaced wherever there is damage. Floors can either be damaged and swell, causing dangerously weak areas or warping, depending on the floor type.

Walls and floors must be repaired or even replaced for your home to be safe again. Quick action can decrease the amount of damage and save thousands of dollars over waiting. These areas of your home cannot easily dry out by themselves as they are saturated on the inside. Waiting leads to increased deterioration.

Furniture can also end up in bad shape because of flood damage. SERVPRO can restore furniture so that it no longer poses a risk of harming someone. If mold has begun to grow, or if metal fasteners have rusted, this can cause once safe furniture to become unstable, and also dangerous. The metal pieces can also become loose because swelling and shrinking of the wooden parts they are attached to will allow them to come loose.

Secondary flood damage includes mold growth in areas of your home. These areas may not have been affected by the flooding to begin with and can be anywhere in your home. Quick and prompt attention to the initial flood damage can stop this from happening.

When flood damage is destroying your home, call us, SERVPRO of Hunt Valley / Lutherville at (410) 229-0012, and we can arrive within an hour after your call.