What Are the Main Concerns of Flooding in My Lockport Home?

6/9/2020 (Permalink)

Do you have a major flood issue in your Lockport home? Call the restoration professionals from SERVPRO to mitigate your problem.

When Flooding Occurs, it Is vital to Protect Your Home, Belongings, and the Occupants as Much as Possible.

Flooding in your Lockport home can be an overwhelming situation that quickly spreads from the point of entry to other areas of the property. Understanding what threats exist with natural flooding and storm loss water penetration can ensure that the right steps get taken early to protect the house and its contents.

Flood damage in Lockport homes can mean several potential problems, from standing water to contamination. Addressing each of these individual conditions is a focal point of responding technicians and can utilize the full measure of our cutting-edge equipment, products, and technology. With an area that has seen flooding many times, Niagara County residents should consider what to do when these emergencies occur, and their role in making it “Like it never even happened.”

What Should I Do as Soon as Flooding Begins?

How you initially respond to an emergency is a critical element to the effectiveness of our SERVPRO team during this crisis. There are initial steps that you can take when you first recognize that flooding has started, but ultimately, the safety of your family should be paramount. Here are some steps that you can take when you first acknowledge floodwater penetrating the property:

• Protect What You Can – It is not improbable to take some keepsakes and personal treasures with you on your way out of the house. You cannot make multiple trips because it might be unsafe once flooding gets too bad. Relocate some items that could become ruined by migrating floodwater.

• Get to Safety – Protecting yourself and your family during this disaster should stand out above all other mitigation tasks. There is little that you can safely do in your home with active flooding, so clearing the way for our responding technicians can be equally as vital.

• Contact our Professionals – While you might get tempted to consider contacting your insurance provider to learn what coverage options exist and what can be done about the disaster to your house, contacting our restoration team might be the first call you should make. Mobilizing our professionals can get critical mitigation, and emergency services started that can be instrumental in protecting your home.

What Emergency Services Can SERVPRO Perform?

Emergency services come before even mitigation tasks and are designed to stop the spread of floodwater, protect your belongings, and remove overwhelming threats for responding technicians. While this often involves our extensive roster of water restoration and bio-recovery professionals, it also includes our division of licensed residential contractors we have in-house. Some of the emergency services that our team can offer after a flood disaster include:

• Extraction
• Controlled Demolition
• Content Management
• Environment Cleaning

What Are the Primary Threats of Flooding?

Understanding the risks and threats that flooding presents in your home is a motivator to secure the appropriate professional cleaning and restoration services. Our SERVPRO team can work through many phases of mitigation, restoration, and reconstruction to offer a comprehensive solution to hazardous flooding conditions. Counteracting each of the potential threats of natural flooding in your home can reduce tear-out and rebuilding as well as unnecessary out-of-pocket expenses. Some of the potential risks of flooding include:

• Saturation – Standing water can absorb into materials and allow water to migrate to new areas of the property. While surface water alone can be threatening, oversaturation can compromise affected materials and contents, ultimately forcing them to be discarded.

• Structural Damage – Saturation alone can cause some degree of structural damage. Also, the penetration point, such as missing shingles on a roof, missing mortar in basement blockwork, or other entry points, presents a persistent threat to your home until repaired.

• Contamination – Natural flooding must often get considered a blackwater event because it cannot get ruled out that rising water encountered bacteria, sewage, viral pathogens, or other contaminants.

Can SERVPRO Offer Repairs and Build Back as Well?

With a full division of licensed residential contractors, we can offer temporary construction solutions like board up and tarping upon arrival to a flooded home. These same professionals can undertake the repairs and full reconstruction of damaged structures whenever necessary.

Flooding presents multiple potential problems for your home. With a fast response and effective emergency services and mitigation solutions, our SERVPRO of Eastern Niagara County team can help. Contact us at (716) 694-7776.