Flood Damage In Your Bloomingdale Home Can Cause Mold

2/11/2022 (Permalink)

When flood damage occurs in your home, you can’t handle it alone. Contact your local SERVPRO for remediation and restoration services. Call 24/7.

Bloomingdale Flood Damage Plus Mold In Your Home

Getting away to see family and friends over the holidays is fantastic. Coming home to flood damage in your home is not so awesome, and worse, the extended exposure to water increases the amount of damage.

When a family arrived at their Bloomingdale home, they found flood damage throughout much of the first floor of the property. Unfortunately, the closed-up and darkened environment also created the perfect breeding ground for mold, which spread across much of the water loss area.

Safety Is Priority

When dealing with water of any type more than 48 hours old, SERVPRO techs wear personal protection equipment to inhibit any skin contact or aspiration of the water. This type of water loss is a category three biohazard, also known as black water. During the initial call, the tech taking the call advised the family to avoid coming into contact with the water until the techs arrived on-site to test it and determine the nature of any contaminants or bacteria present.

Extraction of Flood Water

The techs use portable pumps to remove the water quickly and then access the flooring to see if the subfloor received water damage and required drying.

Removal of Unrestorables

Carpet, unfortunately, in this situation, requires removal and disposal. There is no way to return it to a sanitized state for reuse. Any porous items or building materials such as sheetrock that wicked water or mold infestation require removal from the home. The techs set aside things that have the potential for restoration by cleaning; most often used are immersion methods to ensure they thoroughly disinfect items.

Drying and Disinfection? The techs dry and disinfect the property to restore it for habitation by the family again. SERVPRO standardly treats the structure with antimicrobial sealants to ensure mold colonies do not return prior to the necessary reconstruction occurring.

Lessening Stress During Mitigation

Because SERVPRO knows dealing with a water loss situation is stressful enough, the techs dispose of nothing without approval, and they document the items with photos in a detailed report they provide the homeowner and adjuster to assist with expediting insurance claims.

When flood damage happens, call SERVPRO of Carol Stream / East Bloomingdale at (630) 830-6236. Their techs are available 24/7 to clean and restore your property and contents to their pre-damaged condition, “Like it never even happened.”