Flood Damage Restoration In Your Chicago Heights Home

12/29/2019 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO of Chicago Heights / Crete / Beecher at (708) 672-0077 to help deal manage any incident, “Like it never even happened.”

A Fully Prepared SERVPRO Team Handles Flood Damage Restoration in Chicago Heights Easily

Various flood-proofing steps like having an elevated landscape and swales redirecting water from the property did not save a Chicago Heights home from flooding, when driving rain during a storm, pushed some water into the living room and garage. Luckily, the owner informed SERVPRO immediately, and our crews swung into action promptly.

After scoping the flood damage at the Chicago Heights home, our crew was elated to find that there was no contaminated groundwater inside the house. Thorough extraction and drying could, therefore, help restore the home to its preloss state. Despite the initial good news, the site presented other challenges that could delay the removal process leading to complicated secondary issues.

Downed power lines from the storm meant no power at the property. Without power, running vital equipment such as pumps, water extractors, and dehumidifiers is a challenge. Our SERVPRO teams anticipate such issues and have alternative power sources to perform the job. Using truck-mounted water extractors that run on power drawn from the engines of the production vehicles, we could start the extraction immediately. We also have backup generators to supply power to other equipment. Lack of power also meant no heat in the house, which could jeopardize the drying process, but using portable heaters and expertly exhausting warm air from dehumidifiers back into the wet areas solved that problem.

Some aspects of the loss did require the human touch to resolve. For example, no automation could help in sorting out wet, messy materials stored in the garage area, yet the homeowner wanted them salvaged. Our SERVPRO technicians understand the need to preserve items with sentimental value, so we were delighted to help. Separating items made of different materials helped minimize cross-contamination, while specialized techniques such as freeze-drying helped save some books and other paper materials. Certainly, we could not save everything, but we were happy to meet the expectations of the homeowner.

Flooding can surprise you in terms of timing, intensity, or many other factors. Call SERVPRO of Chicago Heights / Crete / Beecher at (708) 672-0077 to help deal manage any incident, “Like it never even happened.”

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