Flood Damage in Alpharetta can Ruin Your Home and Endanger Your Health

11/17/2016 (Permalink)

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SERVPRO Technicians Can Quickly Assess your Property After a Flood

Floods cause a great deal of damage and can come from many sources. The worst floods come from external sources, although it is possible that clean water from burst water lines can become contaminated inside our home, making them almost as bad as floods originating outside your home. Contaminants make things especially hazardous to your health, but here are other dangers that can lurk inside your home after a flood has receded.


In Alpharetta, flood damage can include silt and soils left behind in your appliances. These can retain moisture, creating not only breeding grounds for microorganisms, but also moist environments that cause rust and other corrosive actions. These can ruin your electric appliances over time, even if they seemed fine at first. Hot water heaters are especially dangerous because silt can shift, blocking pilot lights and creating gas leaks in the process. The same is true of gas dryers and ovens.


These appliances should be examined by someone qualified to make repairs on them. While we at SERVPRO are excellent at cleaning such items, we want to make sure that they are in perfect working order and recommend that these always also be examined by a certified technician after we have cleaned them. Most service technicians will not clean appliances to the degree required after a flood, but we can.


Other cleaning aspects can help you preserve your wood floors. After a flood, you are not simply battling moisture. You are also working to remove sediments that can actually act like sandpaper in your home. Some of this sediment is so fine, it can become airborne and when breathed in, it can irritate your nasal passages and throat. Air scrubbers can help remove these particles, just like they do mold spores. As we dry your home with our heaters and air movers, we can also place our air scrubbers in the most effective locations to catch much of the silt, and other particles, floating in the air. This makes it much cleaner in the long run for you and your family.

When you find yourself coping with flood damage, give us, SERVPRO of North Fulton County a call at (770) 992-2777. Day or night, we are here to help you fight emergency situations like this.