What Easily Overlooked Factor Can Affect Water Removal from Lower East Side Properties?

7/6/2020 (Permalink)

Please know how hazardous a water damage can be to you and your Lower East Side home.

SERVPRO Has Highly Trained Technicians Who Can Anticipate Problems That Might Interfere with Renovation of Water Damage

People have varying experiences when performing water restoration. Although the specifics of an incident play a significant role in determining the outcome, sometimes oversight of minor issues such as moisture movement can influence the experience negatively.  When SERVPRO responds to an incident at your Lower East Side home, one of our responsibilities is to ensure there are no oversights.

What makes moisture movement hard to notice?

Moisture movement can complicate water removal from your Lower East Side home by necessitating sophisticated removal procedures or demolition to reach hidden areas. Such steps lead to higher costs or lengtheir restoration periods.  The four main methods of moisture movement are:

• Liquid flow
• Capillary suction
• Air movement
• Vapor diffusion

Apart from liquid flow, which you can readily see, the other processes are hard to notice without the use of advanced techniques or tools. As the moisture moves, it transfers damage from the areas initially affected. It also causes further deterioration of materials.

What can stop moisture movement once water spills?

Although understanding that moisture movement is happening is useful, stopping the process is not that easy. Our SERVPRO technicians help by using several approaches, including:

• Expediting water extraction to limit the liquid flow
• Running dehumidifiers to manage humidity, limiting moisture spread through air movement
• Making flood cuts or removing wet materials to curb capillary suction

We have different types of water removal equipment, which ease removal under different circumstances. For instance, submersible pumps are perfect when the water pools deeper than 2 inches, while portable units help ease access to different sections of the property.

Taking these steps earlier helps minimize secondary damage caused by moisture migration. You can end up reducing costs involve or improve the turnaround time of the entire renovation task.

Water removal can run more smoothly with an experienced and well-equipped team at your side. Call SERVPRO of Lower East Side Manhattan at (917) 423-6364 to help. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.

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