When Your House is Built Upon Sandbags During a Flood in Pleasant Grove

10/24/2018 (Permalink)

Sandbags can be a first line of defense with a flood, but more often than not they fail. SERVPRO can help dry out and restore your home.

Flood Damage Mitigation in Pleasant Grove Reassures Homeowners and Protects Property

Flooding can happen at any time, and little can be done to stop the flow of dirty water. Sandbagging in Pleasant Grove can help divert this from happening only if the sandbags' height reaches high enough. Putting this together requires a great many resources and extensive labor. The smallest gap can permit flooding to occur in otherwise protected areas.  

Residents who work together can often help prevent flood damage to their Pleasant Grove neighborhood, but more often, this does not happen. SERVPRO is always ready to help our communities with a rapid response time when residential areas sustain damage. Our professional team can mitigate the damaged areas and get your home back to normal, “Like it never even happened.”  

Because flooring takes the most damage in floods, most replacements occur here. We need to pull up carpeting and padding, as well as other flooring types to make way for machinery that dries everything out underneath and to get things ready for the installation of new flooring. If your home is built on a floodplain, we can explain different flooring types that sustain less permanent damage in such situations. While their initial cost might be a bit higher, in the long run, the investment could prove worthwhile.  

Walls made of drywall and other semi-porous materials like wood and plaster can disintegrate rather quickly once saturated. Flooding does more than soak a wall's lower portion. It also puts pressure on it and can cause immediate warping. Not only is the water on the exterior of the wall but it also enters through corner seams and anywhere else it can and then affects the interior of the wall. We remove saturated areas as neatly as possible. Once removed, we can check for other damage, including mold that may have already started to multiply. Quickly drying these areas out helps keep warping of structural wooden beams to a minimum.  

After flooding, a home often experiences the development of bad odors. We use hydroxyl generators to eliminate these smells. Hydroxyl generators work by pulling a hydrogen atom away from the water molecules' structures. This free hydrogen atom then bonds to organic materials including bacteria and viruses, making them too heavy to enter the air, eliminating the odors they cause. Hydroxyl is also very useful for odors produced by the VOCs from fresh paint and new carpet.  

SERVPRO of North Utah County works throughout Draper, Highland, and Eagle Mountain, assisting families in getting their lives back to normal by ridding their homes of flood damage and its effects. Call us at (801) 785-5228, so we can help you, also.

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