How Do I Clear Flood Water and Mud from My Poughkeepsie House?

5/18/2020 (Permalink)

Let SERVPRO relive some of your flood damage stress.

Lower levels of your home can quickly get overwhelmed with flood water during a disaster, but our SERVPRO team can help with extraction, drying, and cleaning approaches. 

Cleaning up after a Poughkeepsie flood loss can be a considerable challenge, especially when you feel like you have to do it on your own. Many homeowners might not realize that despite not having adequate insurance to protect their properties against the flood forces of nature, that they are not without the possibility of securing knowledgeable and experienced restoration professionals like our SERVPRO team.

Flood damage in Poughkeepsie homes after a storm loss can be widespread and overwhelming to see. It involves many different stages of restoration and recovery for even experienced professionals, ranging from the removal of flood debris in the house to protecting the contents of the residence with fast choices regarding recovery and restoration.

Where Can I Expect the Worst Flood Damages? 

Flooding is sometimes an unavoidable force that can target specific areas of your home worse than others. Because of factors like gravity and or access points that are not made from destructive storm forces, several points are more susceptible to contending with standing water and natural flooding threats. Some of these areas include:

• Finished Basements
• Crawl Spaces
• Lower levels of split-level homes
• Garages 

Who is Responsible for Flood Debris Removal? 

Because of the severity of natural flooding for properties and the potential contamination that these disasters can introduce, debris removal becomes a vital service to begin immediately. While some property owners might attempt this on their own, many potential health hazards could exist, and often DIY debris removal is less thorough than what our professionals can do for your home. Some of the emergency services that we can provide include:

• Muck Out – Whether shoveling or wet vacuuming out mud, muck, and debris, removing solids from the property left behind by intruding floodwater is vital. 
• Content Management – Assessing the condition of individual belongings in your home is another crucial step, as this can show when your possessions need cleaning or complex restoration solutions that can only occur off-site at our SERVPRO facility.
• Controlled Demolition – With a team of in-house residential contractors experienced in nearly all facets of the building trades, we can offer efficient controlled demolition that can save time and money if reconstruction is necessary moving forward. 

What Tools Are Best for Removing Natural Flood Effects? 

One of the most hazardous obstacles for our restoration technicians to overcome, when we arrive at your home, is standing water. With invading murky waters that are expected to be contaminated with multiple substances, bacteria, and wildlife, we must carefully begin efforts like extraction to ensure that the right measures get taken at the right times to maximize water removal, drying, and disinfection of the house in their respective stages. There are several tools vital for the removal of contaminated surface water, and these include:

• Trash Pumps – Gas-powered extractors like these have much larger intake and discharge than the more traditional electric submersible pumps that our professionals might use in clean-water incidents. By removing solids as well as water from the area, we can reduce cleaning times later or the obstacles present with controlled demolition. 
• Truck-Mount Pumps – Truck-mounted pumps are the fiercest extraction tools in our inventory, capable of removing standing water at a force of 300 psi. When widespread water is a concern, especially several inches deep or more, truck extractors can be a wise choice in removal for the house. 
• Wet Vacuums – Wet vacuums are among the most versatile of the extraction and cleaning tools that our professionals can use on a loss site. Not only can these portable machines make a substantial difference in shallow standing water, but they can also play a vital role in removing some of the solids carried in with the flooding. 

What Makes SERVPRO a Wise Choice for these Emergencies? 

There are many reasons that our professionals have become a solid choice for post-flood recovery for homes and businesses. Part of this has to do with our fast and confident response that can often see our technicians arriving within hours of your first call to our emergency line. We also continually work to educate our technicians on the latest practices and approaches for efficient and effective drying and extraction using advanced tools and machines. We work hard to make flood losses “Like it never even happened.”

No matter how destructive flooding might initially appear in your home, our SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County team can help with effective cleaning and restoration practices. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster, and that means you can reach us 24/7 by calling (845) 635-4550.