What Are the Essential Considerations During Water Removal From Great Falls Businesses?

12/6/2021 (Permalink)

Removing excess water is key to dealing with commercial water damage. Our certified SERVPRO team is standing by 24/7 for your emergency call.

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Removing water from your Great Falls commercial premises in good time helps in many ways. For instance, you can resume your regular operations, eliminate hazards and save vulnerable items like furniture, carpets, or electronics.

Water removal from your Great Falls facility takes more than just choosing extraction equipment. Establishing where the moisture is likely to cause the most damage if left unchecked should be a priority. That way, the chosen removal equipment or technique can address those areas first. 

Some of the most vulnerable areas in your facility might include:

• Ceilings because of the risk of collapse
• Floors, whether covered with hard all porous materials
• Storage areas where you have stacked contents

Ceiling materials can collapse because of the weight of water collecting in the ceiling cavity, especially if the wrong removal approach is used. Our SERVPRO IICRC-certified technicians apply controlled demolition approaches such as punching weep holes first to release the trapped water. Later we can cut part of the ceiling panels to reach wet insulation and other damaged materials. We finalize water removal from such areas by circulating warm, dry air into the cavities.

When water accumulates on floor surfaces at your business facility, serious problems like deterioration of the floor materials or hazardous situations due to slick surfaces can develop. Expediting water extraction solves most of the problems. Trying to extract water from floor surfaces faster can pose its own set of problems.

Common issues with expediting floor water extraction include:

• Scratching hard surfaces
• Tearing carpeted floors
• Leaving moisture traces

Our SERVPRO technicians use specialized extraction wands such as squeegee wands for tiles and other hard surfaces and carpet wands. We also use weighted extractors to squeeze water from carpets or drying mats to remove water trapped beneath tiles or wooden floorboards.

SERVPRO of Helena & Great Falls can help you complete water removal at your property with no complications. Talk to our representatives at (406) 458-6008.