Flood Damage To Your Smyrna Home

5/18/2020 (Permalink)

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Most of the time, after heavy storms, flood damage occurs, which is distressing and frightening. Within a blink of an eye, your home can no longer seem like your own. After the initial water extraction, you may see visible damage to furniture and other personal belongings. The worst part is going to the tell-tale damp smell that lingers after flooding.

Help from skilled professionals may be needed to help you deal with flood damage to your Smyrna home. Thankfully SERVPRO is only one call away and will offer all the necessary assistance to get your home cleaned up, dried out, and odor-free. 

We Know Our How To Operate Advanced Equipment 

The home drying process is knowing the correct use of dehumidifiers. The purpose of dehumidifiers is to reduce the amount of humidity in the air using a process where air from the environment is pulled and passed across cooling coils. The cooling coils lower the air temperature, causing condensation (Water Vapors), which the unit collects. Next, the dehumidifier reheats and redistributes hot air into the room.

Most people use small dehumidifiers when they have a humid basement. The reason is that as explained above, a dehumidifier removes water vapor held in the air. Georgia is no stranger to humidity, especially during the warm summer months.  

Did you know that humidity rises after a flood because there's more water vapor in the air? Our water damage professionals know that the higher the moisture level, the more difficult the drying process.

How Do Dehumidifiers Work?

Dehumidifiers will reduce the amount of humidity in the air by using a smart but straightforward process. The unit sucks in moist air from the room and passes it across cooling coils located inside the dehumidifier. The inner coils lower the air temperature, causing condensation. After the condensation, the drier air is reheated and redistributed into the room, removing all moisture from the air.

I hope you can see why dehumidifiers are such a vital piece of equipment to handle flood damage. We put our SERVPRO technicians in extensive training to calculate the best dehumidifier set-up for every unique situation.

How We Place Our Drying Equipment 

First, when we arrive on-site, our teams will take into account key factors, including the amount of water present in flood damage. We also take a look at the kinds of wet materials that are present (porous or non-porous). Lastly, we know how important it is to see whether water has seeped into walls and floors. We can tell the number of dehumidifiers that are necessary for the job when we know how severe the flood damage is. 

We want our Smyrna homeowners to be aware that it is impossible to tell how dry a structure is by looking at a structure. When we arrive on-site, you can be sure that our technicians will carefully monitor drying progress using moisture meters and information gathered from other water mitigation tools. With our tools, we will know if we should add or remove dehumidifiers. In some cases, we have had to create a small drying chamber to speed up the drying process.