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Appliance Overflow Water Damage Overview
When starting the water restoration process, it is important to approach it in an orderly manner. Carolina Water Damage Restoration believes it is their specific process that makes them the #1 water restoration company in Zebulon, NC. Throughout this project page, we will take you through it step by step. In this case, our client, in Zebulon, NC, suffered a flooded wood floor and water damaged mouldings due to an Appliance leak. The home was actually just built, and the washing machine drain line leaked due to incorrect installation. This caused water to flood the first floor of the new home, damaging several materials.
Assessing The Water Damage & Discovery
By inspecting the water damaged floors visually at first arrival, we could already tell that most of the first floor’s wood floors were damaged. During visual inspection we check for cupping, warping, and swelling in wood floors. When hardwoods, laminate, or any wood type of flooring is exposed to excessive moisture, it absorbs it, causing it to change shape, thus causing it to show visual distress as it can no longer remain in uniform shape or in a flat, tongue and groove, assembled format.
To thoroughly map out the entire extent of the water’s migration throughout the rooms, we use advanced, non-invasive, moisture reading equipment to scan all the potentially affected areas of the home. By doing this, we test for elevated moisture content in potentially affected materials without having to take anything apart if it is not actually harboring moisture. Once this information is gathered, we decide on an appropriate mitigation plan to properly remedy the water damage. In this case, the baseboard, shoe molding, and wood floor all needed to be removed in order to properly mitigate the property from further damage such as mold development or even rot.
Creating a Plan Of Action
When beginning the mitigation process, you should not immediately start demolishing materials. At Carolina Water Damage Restoration, we find preparation is key at this point. When providing water damage services to a client’s home, we assure that ALL furniture, belongings, and other contents are completely moved out of the work area and stored in a safe place. Once the area is clear of any items, we set up appropriate dust protection using plastic sheeting and tape. Plastic dust barriers should cover cabinets, shelving, or doorways leading directly to an unaffected area. In this prep phase, CWDR also covers any unaffected floors such as staircases or hallways leading to the work area with drop cloths to protect the home from further damage during high traffic times. Our water damage technicians make it a point NOT to even bring demolition tools into the home UNTIL this preparation is FULLY completed.
You can see above, in this project, while we did not have any floors necessary to cover and protect, we wanted to be sure we safely moved out all fixtures and furniture that were in the way, handling it with care, and using blankets. We also wanted to cover the kitchen cabinets with plastic dust barriers.
The Demolition Process
In this phase of the water damage mitigation service, we break out the hammers, pry bars, and other tools to start getting after the bulk of the work- removing the water damaged materials. While many could assume this would be a chaotic, extremely destructive looking task, it is actually very calculated and controlled. We remove water damaged materials with the aim to salvage closeby materials as much as possible. For example, the baseboards in this project are being removed, but we take time before pulling them off the wall to cut the caulking with a razor, allowing it to depart from the wall it is on with no damage to the wall paint or drywall. It is this patience in our process and accuracy that CWDR believes makes them the best water damage repair service in NC.
At this project, we continue removing the water damaged flooring and carrying it out to our vehicles for disposal until it is all gone. If you look closely at the underside of the removed wood flooring, you can actually see a ton of droplets of moisture still on the wood, showing how much water has been harbored under this floor. If this floor was left for a longer period of time sitting wet, there would have been a guaranteed mold infestation.
Appliance Overflow Water Damage Overview
When starting the water restoration process, it is important to approach it in an orderly manner. Carolina Water Damage Restoration believes it is their specific process that makes them the #1 water restoration company in Zebulon, NC. Throughout this project page, we will take you through it step by step. In this case, our client, in Zebulon, NC, suffered a flooded wood floor and water damaged mouldings due to an Appliance leak. The home was actually just built, and the washing machine drain line leaked due to incorrect installation. This caused water to flood the first floor of the new home, damaging several materials.