What To Do When Important Documents Are Damaged By Water In Your Atlanta Property| Call SERVPRO Experts For Help!

7/27/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO can save important documents after a commercial loss.

Document Drying After A Commercial Water Damage In Atlanta

There are many commercial buildings in the city of Atlanta. Most of the highrise buildings belong to corporations that store essential documents. What would happen if you did not have a dry bag for documents causing all of the businesses' critical documents to get wet? 

An Accounting firm or Lawfirm can not risk the loss of the essential documents of their business. A water loss to a commercial building will potentially be an expensive loss to the property and paper document. If you find yourself in a position where you have recently lost essential documents from water damage, contact us to have our commercial restorers to help recover documents that have been damaged. Drying documents is expensive and time-consuming, but it can save your business hours of paperwork.

When severe water damage occurs to a commercial building in Atlanta, there will be a process called a pack out. A packout is where our SERVPRO professionals will take all of the salvageable materials back to our facility for drying. We can save electronics, rugs, and any other essential items that have been damaged. In the past, Atlanta property managers have communicated with a SERVPRO project manager during the inventorying and packing out stage to let them know what the most valuable items are and what can be discarded. 

When it comes to saving documents that have been damaged by water, we need to be clear that existing damages to documents cannot be reversed. We can prevent the documents from being lost using advanced drying techniques, including sublimation.

What is Sublimation?

Sublimation is a process of turning a solid into a vapor without having to go through the liquid state. When looking to have your documents restored, you need to consider the contamination levels the document has and how long it has been exposed to moisture. The more severe the damages to the document are, the longer the time frame will be to restore the papers. Allow our trained SERVPRO restorer to explain the costs and time frames for each document that has been damaged. We always leave it up to the owner of the documents to let us know if they want us to save the document. 

Four techniques used to save wet documents 

1) Vacuum thermal-drying

2) Air-drying 

3) Vacuum freeze-drying

4) dehumidification

The Process For Saving Documents 

We have found the best first step to remediate wet documents is to freeze them. Freezing slows the process of water destruction and will give the SERVPRO restore more time to determine the best course of action to save each document.

Conclusion

Hard copy documents, when damaged from water, are not going to be easy to remediate. Contact SERVPRO of South Cobb to have a professional come and evaluate the best course of action to save your property and the belongings inside. 

In case of emergency, rely on the professionals at SERVPRO of South Cobb to clean up the damage. We are available 24/7 to clean up any water and mold damages that your property has recently had. For all questions, please call (770) 739-2355.

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