Summer Rains Bring Flood Damage to Minneapolis Homes

7/15/2018 (Permalink)

When your area and home faces flooding after a storm, contacting SERVPRO is an essential part of the recovery process. Contact us right away.

Team SERVPRO Understands That Drying Out Your Property After Flooding is the First Step of an Effective Flood Damage Remediation Process

Minneapolis is The City of Lakes, and also boasts miles of waterway frontage on the Mississippi River and Minnehaha and Shingle Creek. When heavy summer rains fill the banks to overflowing, homeowners living nearby can struggle with flooding in basements and walk-out lower levels. Our business mission is to aid our customers with this kind of disaster.
 
Flood damage in Minneapolis brings life as usual to a halt. Like almost every home in the city, yours has a full basement filled with mechanical systems, stored items, and appliances such as water heaters and your washer/dryer. Days of heavy rain saturates the ground around your house and now seeps into the basement through the cinder block foundation. If your home is unequipped with a sump pump, or if that pump is overwhelmed or malfunctioning, we can help evacuate the water and dry the area.
 
Immediately after arrival, our crew chief assesses the scenario and designs a plan to begin water removal. SERVPRO always puts the safety first, so the area is evaluated for hazards. We likely shut off the electricity to the flooded space to avoid the threat of shock during the initial phase, but our pumps and extractors receive needed power from alternative sources on our service vehicles. We use moisture meters and scanning device to locate any hidden pockets of water especially prevalent in the open cells of the cinder blocks. If necessary, we drill holes in the mortar or use extenders on the extractors to release the water.
 
If you have living spaces in the basement, we arrange to inventory and move furnishings and other items to a dry staging area on your property or at our production facility. Our production technicians review your options with you as we gauge the damage to your personal belongings. We offer a range of techniques to dry out and restore items, including innovative techniques like freeze-drying (lyophilization) for books papers, and pictures.
 
Any carpeting is dried in place with weighted wand extractors, usually with the addition of heat to hasten the process. Flood waters are often contaminated, so we frequently recommend removing the padding as it allows for easier access to the carpet for cleaning and drying. Padding is inexpensive and relatively easy to replace after we use professional antimicrobial cleaning products on the floor coverings.
 
SERVPRO of Minnetonka features state of the art equipment and highly trained technicians ready to manage your flooding needs. Call us day or night at (952) 473-4837 to arrange an inspection after water intrudes into your basement.

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