Commercial Flood Damage and Mitigation

10/24/2024 (Permalink)

During the wintertime, snowfall and cold temperatures can plague your neighborhood. During severe winter weather, your store could suffer from commercial flood damage due to a variety of causes. For example, a heavy snowstorm can cause deep amounts to build up outside your store's building, and then when it melts, excessive moisture can enter your structure. Cold temperatures can also cause the H2O in your pipes to freeze.

The main problem when mitigating commercial flood damage inside your store is that the different products are made from many different materials.  Your store may also have areas that contain porous materials such as carpet and furniture as well as different types of flooring for example, tile or linoleum.  

When snow starts to melt, or a pipe freezes and breaks, all of the flooring present inside your store could have been negatively affected.  When a professional restoration company, like SERVPRO of North Rensselaer/South Washington Counties, arrive at your business, the inspection process begins.  We use different tools to sense moisture travel inside.  We also test humidity levels to see if products that didn’t come directly into contact with moisture are at risk.

When It comes to mitigating moisture, our technicians will extract as much water they can while it is still liquid.  There are different methods we use to extract the water.  If there is more than 2 inches of standing water, we can use a submersible pump to pull all of the moisture into one of your sewage drains.  If there is water on top of hard surfaces we can use a mop or squeegee.  When it comes to carpets we can also use a heavy duty extractor to vacuum the moisture. 

If your business suffers from issues creates after the cold or a winter snowstorm, call us, SERVPRO of Bennington and Rutland Counties at 802-375-1500.