subject: Water Damaged Building/ House: Hire A Professional For Best Results [print this page] Water is the most important factor for microbial amplification in indoor environments. The places sustain physical damage and financial loss caused by natural disasters like floods, storm, and rains. Buildings also sustain damage by flooding from water pipes, fixtures, appliances, construction defects, and poor maintenance.
Water losses can affect and damage building materials in different ways, such as horizontal ways, such as horizontal flow driven by wind or pressure differentials or gravity or wicking up into porous materials by capillary action. Excess moisture in the house also supports the microbial growth on affected materials.
Within the last 20 years, significant changes in the understanding of moisture migration processes has occurred, and the available technology for evaluation moisture transport in building systems has improved.
To treat the water damage or to dry the water and moisture present in the house, the first thing to keep in mind is to take rapid response. It is of utmost importance, because the longer the water is present, the more spreading and damage will occur. Identify and eliminate the source of water. This may require assistance by other professionals such as building scientist, plumber, and architect or damage contractors.
Next step is to determine how far water has spread, horizontally and vertically and to what degree the materials are wet. It is imperative to remove as much bulk water as fast as possible. It can be done by the use of specially designed wet vacuuming equipments, water suction pumps, carpet cleaning equipments, brooms and other techniques.
It is better to hire a water damage restoration contractor. Companies provide friendly, well trained, certified technicians. The technicians will thoroughly extract standing water with powerful vacuums. They will conduct a thorough moisture inspection, with sensitive moisture meters, to locate and identify the areas hidden and trapped moisture.
