It Is Crucial to Use Containment Methods During Water Cleanup in Your Rocky Point Home

6/17/2021 (Permalink)

When this home experienced water damage, we were there. Our team is equipped with tools and knowledge to remove the water quickly.

Why SERVPRO Uses Containment Methods During Water Cleanup

When water starts invading your Rocky Point residence, its physical properties allow it to go almost everywhere. Water travels unhindered horizontally and downward, but it can also move upward by wicking higher and higher through absorption into the pores of different materials.

This is why SERVPRO uses different containment methods while working on a Rocky Point home's water cleanup and restoration job. Using only extraction methods only removes part of the water damaging a house. Forcing standing water, moisture hidden inside materials, and humidity toward different house locations help us trap it for complete removal.

Part of the water cleanup process includes cutting moisture-laden materials like carpeting and soiled drywall into small sections and then bagging these into manageable sizes. The filled bags initially go into a temporary containment chamber that we build on-site to treat the bags' exteriors and then place each one into an outer bag. 

Containment During Water Damage Restoration

Other containment areas might house undamaged items like furniture. Protecting costly items in this way also allows us to add restored items once completed. We want to make the recovery process stress-free for our customers, and making the process as transparent as possible helps us accomplish this. When plumbing emergencies are the cause of your problems, our building services team can help and reduce the number of professionals needed for a complete restoration to occur.

Many containment chambers come in smaller sizes. Our desiccant machines use a tank to hold the water it strips out of the air as it passes through. Others use our pump truck's tank. Our Injectidry systems come with tubing that extracts moisture from floors and sends the water into the tank outside. Our manually-operated extraction wands also connect to the tank on our Green Fleet's pump truck.

Once full, we empty the tank according to local regulations. We never pour this out into your neighborhood's gutters or street drains, no matter how small the amount. When permitted, we use a drain already existing on your property, especially if this can save you from an additional expense.

SERVPRO of Port Jefferson's water cleanup specialists know how to use highly efficient methods to dry out a property and protect it and its contents from secondary damage. Containing water is a large part of the process. Call us at (631) 476-5300 to have an expert crew handle your Rocky Point home's water-related emergency. We also provide this and related services to homeowners in Setauket and Stony Brook.