We Have The Experience Necessary To Handle Your Poughkeepsie Flood Damage

4/30/2019 (Permalink)

After a recent thunderstorm caused some flooding in the basement we showed up in record time to pull out wet material and restored their home.

Flooding of the Hudson Can Lead to Damages for Poughkeepsie Homes

Over the years, the Hudson River has been a source of sustenance and also an origin of disaster for many Poughkeepsie homes constructed along its banks. With months more prone to heavier rainfalls, several days strung together with steady precipitation can cause a cresting far above the flood line. The trouble with rising creeks, streams, and rivers that can flood area homes is the potential for bacteria and other contaminants that make a recovery and clean up hazardous to those ill-prepared for the conditions.

Whether you live right along the river or not, flood damage can occur in lower lying areas throughout Poughkeepsie under the appropriate conditions. The immense pressures of moving floodwater and its position against your home can cause whatever vulnerabilities in the foundation, basement, or main level of your home to allow the water inside. Our SERVPRO team can mobilize at the first sign of flood damage. With a situation like this, we have many addresses that we expect to call for our expertise and training in disaster relief and recovery.

When water could become contaminated in its path to your home or due to foreign substances or locations within the route to addresses from the river, the water is immediately considered to be unsafe and hazardous. Our SERVPRO professionals consider this condition to be black water, and it gets treated much like situations such as sewage backup handled by our biohazard cleaning division.

Exposed materials and contents are rarely protected and preserved in flooding situations involving black water because the risk of contamination and bacterial spread is too considerable. Instead, our professionals work in full personal protective equipment to begin stripping down exposed materials within the affected area to get your home down to studs and beams for reconstruction efforts to follow once cleaning completes.

We approach every phase of flood damage with experience and confidence, and in situations where contaminated water could be present, time is of the essence to protect unaffected areas of your property. Give our SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County team a call today at (845) 635-4550 to make flood effects “Like it never even happened.”

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