Researching Water Damage for Your Glendora or San Dimas Home

2/21/2022 (Permalink)

When your home has sudden water damage, researching a solution may become confusing. Unless you are someone that works in the restoration industry, certain key terms may be foregien to you. Two primary examples would be restoration and mitigation.

If water damage strikes in your Glendora or San Dimas home, it is usually because of a plumbing leak or an appliance malfunction. The water spreads from the original leak, overflow, or breakage, causing additional harm to structures or contents nearby. If this occurs, be sure to call Joe McCann and his team at SERVPRO of Glendora and San Dimas. They are restoration and mitigation professionals.

Mitigation can refer to actions you or SERVPRO technicians take to reduce, lessen, or decrease the damage. Your quick thinking in picking up clothing, shoes, and toys before the water flows to saturate them is an example of mitigation. Placing blocks or foil under furniture legs on wet carpeting is also something a homeowner can do to minimize damage to their home and furniture before help arrives.

When Joe and his team arrives, they will work fast to mitigate the impact of excess water in many different ways. Partially saturated carpeting retain dry sections when we use wanded extractors to reduce the moisture level on the leading edge. Pack-outs of contents halt water intrusion into storage boxes and reduces humidity levels in the affected structural spaces, which has the effect of reducing drying times.

Remediation refers to efforts made to remove the disaster-causing water or other agents with pumps and truck-mounted extractors. Drying with air movers and dehumidifiers is another example. Remediation improves the circumstances so that the damage done can be corrected. 

Restoration can include repairs, rebuilding, and refinishing in addition to the mitigation and remediation tasks that come before.

SERVPRO will use a mixture of mitigation, remediation and restoration to bring your home back to pre-water damage conditions.