Property Flood Cleaning: What To Know Before Cleaning Your Home After A Flood

Property Flood Cleaning: What To Know Before Cleaning Your Home After A Flood

22 March 2023
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A property flood can quickly turn into the average homeowner's nightmare. Unfortunately, it's hard to predict when flooding will occur, especially when it directly results from those heavy, unpredictable storms with several inches of rainfall in the area. If your property is flooded because of a storm and you don't know what to do next, take immediate action to salvage what you can of your belongings and restore your home. 

1. Wait a Bit Before Entering the Home

While your first thought may be to enter the home and grab buckets to remove some of the water, you don't want to walk through the property if you don't know whether or not it's safe to do so. For example, damage to the home's structure could put you and everyone else living in the home at risk. If not, there may be electrical hazards that put you at risk of electrical shock when walking through the home. Before you enter, contact a professional who can assess the damage and ensure it's safe enough to enter the building without sustaining injuries.

2. Focus on Water Removal Before Anything Else

Once you're in the home, water removal must be the top priority before anything else, including rummaging through your belongings. You don't want to allow the water to continue sitting in different rooms throughout your property because that can worsen the situation and lead to excessive damage to your floor tiles, walls, furniture, and more. Although some people take a traditional approach of removing water with buckets or containers, you may have too much water in the home to rely solely on buckets. In that case, you can use specialized water removal equipment to extract most of the water from your property.

3. Examine Your Belongings and Check the Condition of Your Home as It Dries

Removing water is necessary, but after you've got every last drop out of the home, you will need to focus on drying each room that was negatively impacted by the flood. It can take hours or even days for these rooms to dry completely, so get fans circulating in every room while you check your belongings for damage. You may need to toss some items in the trash, while others may be salvageable. 

During this time, you should also check the condition of your home for possible damage to different spots, such as the drywall and carpeted floors. When you spot damage, make a note of it and consider what you will need to do to repair the damage, such as pulling out the carpet or replacing some of the drywall.

If you have a flooded home, wait before entering the house and only go inside when you know it's safe to do so. From that point, you can focus on removing the water and beginning the step-by-step restoration process.

Contact a company that offers property flood cleaning to learn more.

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