How Can a Remediation Service Mitigate My Water Damage?

7/22/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Offers Advanced Equipment to Mitigate Water Damage in Mansfield Area Properties

Mansfield Area Remediation Services Use Various Tools and Methods to Limit the Severity of Your Water Damage.

When your Mansfield home is impacted by a water leak, your first thoughts likely concern how damage can be mitigated and your residence restored to its preloss condition.  With that said, destructive leaks can develop for many reasons and exist in different locations around your home.  Some of their most common causes are pipe drips and ruptures, storm damage that puts holes in your roof, clogged gutters that allow the collected water to penetrate structural elements, malfunctioning household appliances like washing machines and dishwashers, and rusted out or defective water storage containers.  Whatever their cause, water leaks need to be found and adequately dealt with swiftly.

How Does a Service Like SERVPRO Discover and Locate Hidden Water Leaks?

The ideal way a Mansfield water damage mitigation service such as SERVPRO can limit a leak’s impact is by finding it early when it first starts.  This is exceedingly difficult, or near impossible, for those without the right experience and high-tech equipment to do.  Fortunately, SERVPRO technicians possess both of these things.  As a result, they can often find sources of water issues early by using their extensive training and industry experience, as well as the following tools:

• Infrared cameras to look through ceilings, walls, and baseboards to locate sources of leaks
• Moisture sensors that identify excess moisture in affected items and areas
• Meters to measure actual moisture levels in impacted materials and objects

Our workers can locate water leaks with this detection gear near the time they start if you have your home periodically inspected.  In this way, we can often help you avoid the more serious damage that generally accompanies older, ongoing water-related problems.  Even if you suspect a leak and we find it later, we can still usually prevent it from developing into a more severe issue. 

How Does SERVPRO Dry My Home So That It is Not Further Harmed by Standing Water and Airborne Moisture?

In cases of apparent or catastrophic water events, the first course of action to mitigate damage is to remove standing water and reduce water vapor levels as quickly as possible.  We do this with a vast array of state-of-the-art equipment, like:

• Strong extractors, pumps, and wet vacs that extract standing water from your home swiftly.
• Advanced air blowers, high-velocity fans, and different kinds of dehumidifiers that dry interior air, household surfaces, furnishings, and other contents
• Ingenious air blower-dehumidifier-injectidry networks to dry moist areas in difficult-to-reach places behind walls and ceilings

Often, these tools and measures help prevent harmful bacterial and fungal growths, as well as the development of persistent unpleasant odors.  This all substantially reduces your home’s long-term risk of experiencing destructive dry rot and other damaging microbial issues.  Moreover, they help ensure that unwanted smells related to your water problem are permanently eliminated.  

What Does SERVPRO Do to Disinfect Your Home and Neutralize Present Odors?

Our trained experts also do other things, besides merely preventative measures, to disinfect and deodorize your residence.  These measures further ensure that harmful microbes are killed, the structural integrity of your home is preserved, and foul water damage-related odors are effectively mitigated over the long-term.  Such efforts include, among other things:

• Spraying EPA-approved disinfectants, antifungals, and deodorants directly on impacted structural elements and household contents
• Injecting antimicrobials and deodorants into affected upholstered items and materials using injection devices
• Eliminating microorganisms and foul smells from difficult-to-access spaces with liquid agent-atomizing ultra-low volume (ULV) foggers
• Thermal fogging with deodorants, disinfectants, and fungicides

Once completed, these actions generally protect your home from further leak-related damage and unwanted smells in the future.

Considering all this, you can see how a service like SERVPRO can effectively help you mitigate your water damage.  Such services are essential for homeowners eager to minimize their recovery times and save irreplaceable or exceedingly valuable property.  If a water damage restoration company is not skilled in successfully mitigating issues, you could face substantially higher long-term repair costs and potentially lose valuable property.  With all that said, however, we are skilled in helping homeowners limit potential harm done to their homes and possessions by water.

We do this via the early detection of water-related problems, which allows our workers to resolve them before they produce bigger issues.  If standing water or excess humidity are present, we mitigate possible damage by quickly extracting the water and drying the air.     

Although it is often difficult to prevent water leaks and other such issues, there are several ways they can be mitigated once they develop.  So, if you ever need this type of help, call SERVPRO of Taunton/Mansfield at (508) 824-0200 for assistance.