How You Can Deal With Storm Damage Remediation In Poughkeepsie

9/22/2019 (Permalink)

Flooding is not something that you can control. But how you react to flood damage in your home is definitely within your control. Call SERVPRO.

Structural Cavity Drying for Full Recovery of Poughkeepsie Homes

After flooding, there is a definitive timeline where complete drying and extraction efforts must get completed before structural elements in Poughkeepsie homes become too severely damaged to protect and preserve. One of the most pressing obstacles to overcome in your home after a flood is the effect that this spreading, and possibly contaminated, water can have on structural cavities. Our SERVPRO technicians have several strategies to address dampness in these spaces.

The faster that our professionals can overcome flood damage in Poughkeepsie homes, the less loss that our customers experience. Especially in situations where contamination cannot get ruled out, the threat and severity of these spreading effects get amplified the longer that the symptoms go unaddressed. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster, and that means that you can expect our Green Fleet to arrive within hours of your initial call to begin sufficient mitigation work that can protect your property.

We have several strategies that can both identify the moisture and dry structural cavities. The most common initial approach for identifying dampness is infrared and thermal imagery. Temperature differences can locate moisture pockets and show our technicians where focused drying efforts are necessary. Positive and negative pressures are both effective and get selected based on the current damage and potential contamination present.

The difference between these two approaches is the push of air vs. the pull of air. Positive pressure gets achieved when air gets pushed into the cavity, which can be an effective method of exclusively drying this affected area. The negative pressure approach involves pulling moisture from the cavity and can be effective against the possibility of contamination. To access the cavity, our professionals can drill small holes along the baseboard of a wall for either of these strategies.

As challenging as drying cavities can be, our SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County professionals understand how vital this process is to protect your home and its occupants. We have a fast response with cutting-edge equipment that can overcome these threats beginning as soon as our team arrives. Give our team a call anytime that you need us at (845) 635-4550.

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