Commercial Flood Damage In Your Chicago Heights Property

2/4/2020 (Permalink)

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Commercial Flood Damage Experts In Chicago Heights Discuss Problems With Pipe Freezes

During this time of year in Chicago Heights, outdoor temperatures can fluctuate from day to day. One day the sun could come out, and the temperature could be in the 50's or 60's. Then, the next day a storm can roll in that drops the temperature to below the freezing point of 32 degrees Fahrenheit. If temperatures drop drastically at night, it could cause it to become cold inside parts of your book store.

Sometimes, retail buildings have areas that are not insulated as well, and the temperature inside that region can also drop below freezing. During some commercial flood damage projects in Chicago Heights, our SERVPRO team discovers that the cause is a pipe freezing. When it gets cold inside your book store building, it is possible that the water running in your plumbing system can freeze. When water freezes, it expands inside your pipes, which can cause the metal piping to burst. Since the H2O is frozen, it might not leak right away, but once the weather warms up in the morning, the ice can melt and cause moisture to enter your building.

Once liquid H2O starts flowing out of a broken pipe, it can pour into your structure and cause several problems with your store's products and structural components. Especially since your business sells books, moisture can ruin your products that are made of paper. In some situations, our SERVPRO technicians can save wet items by drying them out if we start the process promptly.

Even a small amount of moisture entering your structure can cause the humidity levels to rise inside your store. Water vapor can then cause damage to the books sitting on your shelves if the humidity level does not get dropped to normal quickly. When attempting to restore your wet contents and building materials, our SERVPRO crew can set up air movers and dehumidifiers as a part of the applied structural drying or ASD phase.

If several of your books got wet, we could set up extra dehumidifiers to pull moisture out of the air and other porous items such as your products. During severe situations, we can move all of your products out of your store and dry out your structural components and contents separately.

If you ever notice elevated humidity levels inside your place of business after a pipe freezes, call SERVPRO of Chicago Heights / Crete / Beecher at (708) 672-0077 24/7. We’re Faster to Any Size Disaster.

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