Our Flood Damage Professionals Can Save Your Crossville Home

9/5/2019 (Permalink)

“Like it never even happened.”

Helping Your Home's Interior Dry As Quickly As Possible After A Flood Passes Through Crossville

When your home in Crossville was built, the building envelope became a crucial part of the structure. The envelope keeps the majority of the elements outside of your property while helping your heating and cooling equipment maintain your home's interior at a comfort level suitable for your family. However, no envelope is wholly airtight and allows air to escape or enter in small amounts.

The same small gaps that let air pass in or out of your house in Crossville also let flooding enter into the envelope's materials. While your living space becomes visibly drenched in dirty water, the interior cavities of your walls, floors, and other structures also soak up filthy water.

SERVPRO professionals learn during training that every component of a building, including houses, must come under scrutiny to ensure that our drying techniques resolve the saturation by thoroughly drying the entire structure. Water travels from damp areas into those with less moisture. Stripping the moisture from a room until our readings indicate that the area is dry again is only part of the goal.

We also need to dry out the envelope's structure. When moisture blocking materials are part of the structure, these can affect the drying process. Other materials might release moisture more slowly than other materials, making it necessary for us to use more intense methods.

The tighter the envelope around a house, the slower the interference from outside weather occurs. When the outside is drier than the interior of the house, we can often open up the windows and entryway doors to help decrease the amount of water vapor and subsequently, the load on our machines. However, after a flood or major storm, the air outside is often saturated. This makes the outside just as damp, and possibly even damper, then the interior environment.

Because of the variations in building materials and their permeability, as well as the tightness of the building envelope, we prepare a drying plan. Drying plans help keep our team efficient and on schedule. We monitor the progress to ensure that any needed changes happen as soon as possible.

Each job's drying plan differs from all others. One water emergency in the home might differ from another emergency that occurs in that same home because of seasonal changes, varying locations of invasive water, and the amount, as well. Without fail, we monitor each plan regularly, even if we have already done work at that same site in the past.

SERVPRO of Cumberland, Morgan & White Counties responds to emergencies like flooding and storm damage in Sparta and Fairfield Glade. Call our emergency line, (931) 250-5333, so we can restore your property to preloss condition.

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