Some of the Biggest Problems After Water Damage in Nashville Homes

9/23/2018 (Permalink)

Approaches That Help Save Important Items during Water Removal in Nashville

When water overflows into a property, it does not discriminate, and any item within reach is submerged. However, the damage it causes in different items within the affected area varies. There are items ruined within just a few minutes of exposure to the water. Others can only be ruined if left submerged for extended periods. Finally, some items might not exhibit any signs of damage after the exposure, but develop problems later on. It is necessary to follow the right procedures to save valuable items in your Nashville property after a water loss incident.
 
You should pay serious attention to electronics during water removal in Nashville. If they end up submerged, you might incur huge losses. The issue with most electronics is that even a few minutes underwater can ruin them. In addition to this, the items might continue functioning normally then exhibit signs damage long after the loss. Our SERVPRO technicians can help you save electronics exposed to water. We remove the items from the affected areas or cover them with plastic sheets if it is not possible to move them. Such actions limit further exposure. The delayed damage people experience is because of letting the item to cool to the dew point, which leads to condensation and corrosion. We prevent this by keeping the item in temperatures above this point.
 
Another prized item in many households is clothes. Property flooding can ruin clothes in different ways. The most straightforward way is the transfer of stains from the dark to the bright colored clothes. You can prevent this by separating the clothes immediately after you detect flooding in the closet. Contaminants in the water and the surfaces where you place the clothes can also stain them. Exercising care when moving the clothes from flooded areas, helps prevent this.
 
The water might also affect documents and important books within the home. It is possible to limit the extent of damage by choosing the right removal procedure. In most cases, restoring affected documents to their preloss condition is not possible. Our SERVPRO technicians rely on sublimation methods to save the documents. The method works by changing solids to vapor directly without passing through liquid stages. For this to work, we have to find the damaged documents within 24 hours and freeze them within 48 hours.
 
You can save your items from unnecessary damages in case of water loss. Call SERVPRO of South Nashville at (615) 331-0200. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.

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