Call Us If Your Brandon Residence Has Flood Damage

10/8/2019 (Permalink)

“Like it never even happened.”

What to Do When Your Brandon Residence Has Flood Damage

Many factors can cause flooding in Brandon and the surrounding communities. Tropical storms and hurricanes can unload sustained and heavy rainfall that overwhelms drainage systems, leading to flooding in homes. Massive and sudden rain may also cause flash flooding, which can move debris, rocks, and even vehicles.

Flooding can severely damage homes and other personal property. When there is flood damage in your Brandon residence, you should do a few things to deal with it. They include:

Begin the recovery process soon enough
If you do not extract floodwater quickly enough, the drying process can be more complex and time-consuming. Mold growth becomes a real risk, and it can ruin the building materials in your home and cause serious health risks. Therefore, you need to start the recovery process as soon as possible.

Boil tap water
Flooding may contaminate the water supply with food waste, chemicals, and microbes. It is not always possible to tell if tap water is pure or impure by its color or odor. Therefore, boil water for drinking or cooking until the health department confirms its safety.

Look out for hidden hazards
When water submerges the floor of a house, hidden risks could wait beneath the surface. They include sanitation issues from broken pipes, potential electrical shock, unstable flooring, unseen debris like broken metal or glass objects, and ruptured gas lines. Professionals can inspect the property on your behalf to ensure its safety.

Contact the professionals
You may not clean up and dry your property properly own your own. Without advanced moisture detection tools, some moisture can remain in your home and continue causing damage even after you have removed the floodwater. Therefore, the best solution to restore your home is to seek the help of SERVPRO franchise professionals.

Post-flood decontamination and recovery are big tasks, but with our help, you can tackle them quickly. We have state-of-the-art water extraction tools like electric submersible pumps, which eliminate suction lift limitations. Our technicians can also use inspection devices like luminometers to test water and surfaces for organic contamination. We can use these meters to identify contaminants in your home. Our SERVPRO crew can also dry your property using structural cavity drying equipment.

After a flooding incident in your home, call SERVPRO of Brandon / North Riverview at (813) 741-3473 for help. We can deal with the flooding disaster to make it “Like it never even happened.”

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