What to Do After Storm Flood Damage in Your Chicago Home

8/1/2022 (Permalink)

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Hire SERVPRO to Handle Flood Damage in Your Chicago Home

A house's flooding can result from heavy rainfall, blizzards, snow, hurricanes, and tornadoes. The aftermath of this calamity might be extraordinary, and the resulting damage is likely to be disastrous. The National Weather Service states that the US experiences about 100,000 thunderstorms and 1,000 tornadoes yearly, causing about $40 billion in damages.

SERVPRO has the equipment and expertise required to handle the storm flood damage in your Chicago home as quickly as possible. Your safety is a priority. The steps to take following a devastating storm include:

• Keep yourself and your family safe – Find another place to stay if necessary. 
• Secure the area – If your home is accessible, remove valuables. Discard compromised food and medicine. Please take photos of the destruction and catalog them for your insurer. 
• Call SERVPRO – Contacting professional restorers who perform storm damage restoration quickly is vital. We can work with you to provide dependable and fast services to begin the clean-up process. 
• Contact your insurer – Inform your insurer about the incident to begin the claim's filing process. 

SERVPRO can assist you in repairing any items the flooding did not adversely affect. This includes dented and cracked items. We can discard severely damaged contents or porous items like mattresses and carpets because eliminating microbes from them is challenging. 

We can use centrifugal pumps to extract the floodwater from your house to prevent the damages from spreading further. Centrifugal pumps convert rotational energy from a motor to energy to move fluids. Examples include high-pressure pumps, self-priming trash pumps, and electric submersible pumps.

Our SERVPRO team can also dry your home thoroughly. We often use air movers to enhance evaporation. They introduce airflow at the surface level and replace the saturated, cool boundary layer with drier, warmer air from dehumidifiers. Air moving equipment also moves the dry dehumidified air from rooms where restorers have positioned dehumidifiers to other rooms.

Do not allow the floodwater to sit in your home. Contact SERVPRO of Marquette / West Lawn / Ford City for help at (773) 337-3993. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.