Recovering Your Home from a Flooding Scenario If your home should flood due to rainfall, improper drainage, or broken pipes, then it has the potential to do a lot of damage and completely ruin items that make prolonged contact with the water. There are some things that you can do to minimize the water damage and recover your home.
Find and Stop the Flow of Water - First of all, it is going to be essential to recognize what is causing the flooding and take every step necessary in order to contain it. This can mean clearing out a blocked drain manually, sandbagging rising rain water, or shutting off the water completely to your house in the case of broken pipes. These measures allow you to contain the cause of the issue and simplify the situation for yourself. Therefore, containment is the highest priority, and gives you a starting point to work with.
Actions to Begin Restoring Your Home - Once you have stopped the flow of water that is threatening your Colorado Springs home, you can evaluate the water damage and begin working in order to contain it. The most important thing of all is to remove everything from the area which has been flooded and help it to dry out as soon as possible. The sooner you are able to dry things out, the more of your belongings you will be able to save. Cleaning up the area completely is just the first step. In the case of possessions and valuable items, remove then to another room or place, which will allow them to air out. Given a fast response time, you will be surprised with the amount of things which could potentially be saved in these circumstances.
Don’t Keep What Could Hurt You - It is important to save everything that you can, but it also is necessary to throw away what is beyond salvaging. This is important because completely saturated items, which may be beyond saving in your Colorado Springs home, have a much greater need for mold remediation. As such, it is also a good idea to be able to identify what needs to be thrown away, so that it keeps
harmful elements from developing in your house. It can be a difficult thing to do, but it really is for the best.
Dry Out Your Water Damaged Home - Looking at the rooms in and of themselves, those which are carpeted are going to need a lot of care if they have been flooded. Both the carpet in a room and the pad underneath are able to soak up a lot of water, all of which will need to be removed. You will want to pull your carpet and pad out, and then use an industrial fan to dry out the carpet and surrounding areas. You may also want to use a Shop-Vac in order to remove more of the standing water from these absorbent areas before trying to dry them out completely. It will take a few days of having the fans dry out the water damaged carpet and pad, which you are going to want to monitor during the whole process. Make sure to continue to expose the wet areas to the drying air current which is being provided. When it all comes down to it, flooding does not have to be a complete disaster. With a cool head and knowledge of what to do, the experience is much easier process to be dealt with.