Handling Water Damage

Flood damage in your home can stem from several issues. If left to continue, water damage can deteriorate the stability of your home. Porous surfaces like floors and walls are susceptible to harboring mold and mildew when flood damage is neglected. Our professionals at Paul Davis are the experts to call when your home or business needs water damage restoration.

Getting Ready for the Professionals

It can be hard not to try and remedy the situation yourself. That said, we recommend leaving the heavy lifting up to the specialists. However, there are some ways to clean before the restoration professionals arrive. From the floors, walls, ceiling, and your favorite possessions, it's essential to work quickly to postpone water damage in your home. Make sure your home is safe to enter before beginning work. The dangerous mixture of water and electricity makes a dampened home a risky place to enter. Turn off the main breaker before entering your home. Even if they look harmless, home appliances can be dangerous when touched by water.

Getting Started

A serious flood in your home can leave everything you own soaked. To keep water damage from destroying small items, remove them before larger items. Level, dry areas are ideal for drying books, magazines and other paper materials. Do not forget light fixtures and other shelf things either. The real work begins when you've removed magazines and other small items. Fans or air conditioning can circulate air around your house and start drying the area. Wipe or mop wet areas like shelves to ensure minor pools of standing water have been cleaned. Though you may want to try, you should never use a regular home vacuum cleaner to clean water. Standard vacuums aren't equipped to suck up pools of water. If your furniture has been affected, use wooden or cement blocks to raise sofas above the floor. Fabrics and carpet are quite heavy when wet. This extra weight makes leather goods, fur and rugs hard to move. This means when you must remove a carpet, lift carefully. Hang clothing, draperies and other fabrics away from the soaked area to dry correctly. Keep in mind that water damage can affect these items permanently, so you may not be able to save them. In serious flooding cases, the extra water weight can hurt the foundation of your property. Ceilings and floors can warp when they absorb too much water weight, be sure to stay away from these hazards.

Paul Davis Restoration

Paul Davis contractors are experienced with flooding. And with a little prep work from our customers, the water damage will be treated faster. We will return your home back to normal safely and quickly. Our pros are knowledgeable and have worked with severe, moderate and small amounts of water damage in different kinds of residential and business properties. Additionally, Paul Davis will work with your insurance company to settle your claims quickly, so you can get life back to normal.