Water Removal in Chicago Needs to be Done Quickly

7/3/2022 (Permalink)

Should you find excess water in any part of your home, contact our technicians. We have the expertise to mitigate the situation and are standing by.

SERVPRO Can Perform Water Removal in Your Chicago Home

When water damage occurs in your house, multiple issues may arise, ranging from dangerous structural problems to mold growth. To prevent the deterioration of your home, you need an effective and quick intervention.

SERVPRO is well-equipped with professional water extraction and drying equipment to perform water removal in your Chicago home to restore your peace of mind. After a water damage incident in your home, microbes can grow given proper conditions and enough time. If you do not mitigate a category one water situation for 2 to 3 days, microbes can amplify and increase contamination in the building. They can turn a category one situation into a category 2 or 3 situation. Acting fast helps prevent microbial contamination from worsening with passing time. The main steps in remediation or mitigation are: 

• Eliminating moisture by minimizing humidity levels and drying the environment.
• Removing contaminated materials. 

Our team is certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). Our SERVPRO technicians have undergone rigorous training in IICRC S500 standards and psychrometry, which is the drying science. This enables us to fashion the water removal situation according to the case and perform a thorough job. Our water removal process involves:

• A thorough inspection
• Extracting the standing water
• Removing damaged items
• Drying 
• Disinfecting 

Our immediate course of action when we arrive at your house is to identify the source of the water intrusion and stop it completely. We can also assess your home to get a sense of the severity of the damage. The inspection also helps the SERVPRO team determine what items, materials, and structures have sustained severe damage and those within our ability to restore.

SERVPRO mostly follows these assessments with the extraction of standing water using pumps and removal of excess moisture using air movers and low grain refrigerant dehumidifiers. The equipment enables us to dry everything out. We can disinfect the house using antimicrobial agents.

Removing the water before the damage escalates goes a long way in ensuring your house returns to normal within the shortest time possible. Contact SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown for help at (773) 434-9100. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster.