Water Damage Restoration: How To Clean And Restore Home Without Professional Help
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So your pipe burst. Or your kid forgot to turn off bathtub faucet. Or you have a case of sewer overflow. Or it rained heavily last night and now your house is flooded. And the list of water damage causes goes on and on. Now you’re thinking how much you lost as a consequence, and how much you need to spend to replace some water damaged items in your home. And when you call a water damage restoration company, they give you a cost estimate you don’t think you have the budget for.
But why spend thousands of dollars on water damage restoration fee when you can clean and restore your own home in no time at all?
If you are physically fit, then doing some water damage restoration jobs should be no problem for you. You just need to know how to properly do it, and how to do water damage restoration without endangering your safety or health. Below are pointers and step-by-step guide to restoring your home without help from professionals.
STEP 1: The first thing you need to insure before you start restoring and drying your home is your safety. Heed defined safety precautions with regards to water damaged homes. The primary danger of a flooded or water-drenched home is electrocution. Turn off your main power supply to avoid electrocution. Never step in a pool of water while electricity is running inside your home! Don’t turn on any electrical equipment unless you have a clearance from a certified electrician.
Also, check out the outside structure of your home. Find out if there are structural damages, and if it is safe to go inside your house. Once you have determined that your home is free of safety threats, start water damage restoration immediately in order to prevent worsening of damages made by water in your home.
STEP 2: Identify whether the type of water that has contaminated your home is “clean” or “dirty.” If water that has damaged your home originated from your faucet or from failed sump pump, then you may not have to worry much about bacteria infestation. However, if the water that has damaged your home comes from sewage-contaminated floodwater or from broken ejector pumps, then water is likely contaminated by pathogenic microorganisms. If dirty water has contaminated your home, you need to take extra measures while doing water damage restoration to protect your health.
STEP 3: Open windows and doors to allow fresh air to enter your house and facilitate drying. Ready your cleaning tools, disinfectant solutions, deodorizers, detergents, mops, and drying equipment like carpet cleaning machine, wet vacuum cleaner, and dehumidifier. Prepare also materials for body protection such as rubber boots and puncture-proof gloves.
STEP 4: Remove standing water using submersible pump. To extract excess water from carpets and rugs, use wet/dry vacuum.
STEP 5: Thoroughly clean, disinfect, dry, and deodorize carpet and other floorings.
STEP 6: Wet carpet padding is an ideal breeding ground of mildews and molds. This item should be replaced, rather than restored.
STEP 7: Speed up drying of walls using dehumidifier and fans. Strip off baseboards from walls. This will create air spaces inside walls, and hence help speed up drying. Clean baseboards, disinfect, let dry, and store until walls have completely dried.
STEP 8: Dry walls, furniture, floor boards, and other items in your home using dehumidifiers, fans, and air movers.
STEP 9: After you have completed water damage restoration of your home, deal with your insurance carrier. Make sure they pay enough compensation to cover up for the losses.
Samson Paulotti writes about house floods and other catastrophic issues. See www.therestorationresource.com
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