Let's Find that Hidden Moisture in Your Water Damaged Crossville Home with SERVPRO's Help!

9/11/2019 (Permalink)

Don't Slip Up from a Water Leak in Your Crossville Property--Why Not Call SERVPRO for Fast Removal and Drying

Why SERVPRO Opens Enclosed Spaces During Water Removal Jobs in Crossville 

A flurry of activity happens in a Crossville home after sustaining a disastrous event. Without immediate action, the effects of most incidents spread and worsen. This increased amount of damage means additional work, time, and expense. SERVPRO always keeps your family in mind as the work progresses.

While we work on a house in Crossville needing water removal services, we often come across enclosed spaces built into the house's construction. While these dead spaces comprise only a small area, complete aeration is why SERVPRO sometimes must open these compartments. When spaces are too small for standard ventilation, cutting away a wall of the cavity allows us to do this. Our building services crew often performs this task for us.

Larger spaces forming enclosed cavities require an entry point and an exit point for dry air to ventilate these areas. Ventilation is crucial to attaining complete dryness again. Allowing any part of the structure to retain moisture can lead to mold infestations as well as harbor moisture that continues to evaporate into the house's environment, increasing water vapor levels.

Water removal methods should restore normal humidity inside your home. Opening up smaller spaces might seem unnecessarily destructive, but we always rebuild these spaces once dry, making things “Like it never even happened.” Whenever possible, however, we prefer making a pair of small openings for our Injectidry equipment's tubing over tearing down and reconstructing any structures. Weep holes are helpful, especially behind removed baseboards for allowing draining of enclosed water and then a means of forcing in warm, dry air.

The Injectidry equipment is very powerful, useful in several water removal situations, and highly efficient. Wooden floorboards and carpeting are two other places where we might pull out materials in your home to remove water from where it lies trapped. Of course, we attempt to extract hidden moisture first with drying mats that cover a small surface area and create great suction. No matter where we work to extract and remove water, we carefully monitor the area with equipment that reveals the location of moisture.

SERVPRO of Cumberland, Morgan & White Counties helps restore homes in Fairfield Glade, Around Lake Tansi, and throughout Crab Orchard using internationally-accepted water removal methods. Call us at (931) 250-5333 and learn about the many other reasons why area residents call SERVPRO for restoration and mitigation services.