What To Expect From Water Damage Repairs In Virginia
Water damages in your Virginia home can occur for several reasons. You may have plumbing that leaks and floods your home, plumbing that backs up and floods your home, or floods inside your home due to flash-floods or storms. No matter what type of flooding or water damages you have, you will need proper extraction and water damage repairs.
Extraction removes the water and dries your wet and moist areas. Water damage repairs will ensure your building materials are all repaired correctly so your interior is safe again for you to live in. Your drywall can be high powered fan dried if you have a good remediation company to handle it.
Otherwise, it’s likely you’ll need the drywall removed at the interior level of the flood water. Carpeting would need removing and thorough drying and possibly sanitizing. Your wall cavities will be dried and any drywall or trim work replaced. Having the right company handle your Virginia water damage repairs can make all the difference for you. A good company will take care of things right, ensuring any sanitizing for your flooring or walls is done as well.
What Water Damage Can Do To Your Interior
Flooding inside your home is not a good situation for you or any other occupants, nor is it good for you interior building materials. The drywall, flooring, insulation, carpeting, electrical, and more are not manufactured to be moisture or water resistant. Even a little moisture in the home can cause wall and ceiling texture to start peeling off and drywall to warp or sag.
When water floods the home, it completely saturates your carpeting if you have any, or your bare floors. Adhesives that are water soluble will degrade and cause your building materials to become loose or warp. Wooden or laminate floors may become loose and water may seep up under the flooring. Carpet padding will get soaked and water will seep up underneath. These issues need to be addressed with water extraction and thorough drying of all areas that had contact with the flood waters.
Damaged interior building materials can be costly to replace, but when there’s a flood it can be necessary to replace them because it may not be enough to prevent mold or mildew growth if they’re dried with fans, especially with fans that high powered as they should be.
Why Water Flooding Damages Can Be Dangerous
There are two main reasons that interior flooding can be dangerous to your health. Either way, the process of water damage repairs needs to involve the proper clean up of the area. Based on several factors, there may be different measures that need to be taken to properly ensure you have a safe environment inside the home or commercial building again.
One reason water damages can be dangerous on your interior is that it’s a closed environment, so even if all the water is extracted from the home, you will still need to ensure everything is dried out or you risk mold and mildew growth in your warm indoor climate. Mold and mildew love the warm, moist interiors and will quickly grow in those conditions. Mold and mildew produce spores when they grow that are dangerous to your health if allowed to reach certain levels.
Second, the water that flooded your home is likely contaminated. Unless you had a fresh water leak that didn’t back up into your home’s sewage system, the water flooding the interior environment is contaminated. Even rainwater that floods the street or neighborhood or land you live on will become contaminated because it will contact sewage water. This is dirty water entering your home with microorganisms that cause serious illnesses.
If you have water damages, call us at Bay Restoration where you can count on a professional water damage repairs contractor to handle your flooding properly. Whether you have water damages from storms or plumbing backups or leaks, we treat your property with respect and have all the right equipment to handle the damage repairs right.
