Meetings
Our company is getting so organized! We started having weekly meetings last week so everyone at the company can be on the same page. This way if there is a common learning opportunity among our employees we can grow and learn together. Tomorrow is week two of our weekly meetings, and we’re going to do […]
Flash Floods
Hello everyone. Recently there has been a lot of rain and flash flooding, and we wanted to give you a few reminders about how to protect yourself from water damage during these severe weather times. 1. If you have a sump pump please make sure you are using it in accordance with the factory directions. […]
Water Loss Related Injury
Do you know what the number one water damage related injury we see is? Slip and fall. It may sound silly, but in moving from a dry to wet area the slipperiness of the floor changes. Though a change in slipperiness is something that we can usually navigate, sometimes gravity gets the better of us. […]
Warehouse
We did it! We reorganized the whole warehouse! About two weeks ago we started the process. See we have been getting busier and busier and needed more room for our equipment. So we purchased a bunch of matching shelves to make sure every square foot counts. We actually found we have more space than we […]
Mold Safety
Do you know that mold is harmful to your health? I bet you did, but do you know why? For most people this is a harder question to answer. The reason mold is harmful to your health is as mold grows it releases spores into the air that are toxic to humans. They release spores […]
Specialty Floor Drying
So when we rearranged the shop we had to work with all of our specialty drying equipment. What is specialty drying equipment you ask? It is, in short, equipment used to dry specialty surfaces like hardwood and tile. Because of the way these surfaces are installed in a home or commercial building they cannot be […]
Psychrometry
How do we do such good work? How do we keep customers satisfied and referring us again and again? It’s because we use the science of psychrometry to make sure our work is top notch. Psychrometry is the study of the relationship between air and water vapor. This study helps us as water restoration specialists […]
Why We Always Extract Carpet and Pad
When you have a water damage loss involving carpeted floors you need to think of it less like carpet and more like a swimming pool. A carpeted floor can hold a lot of water. Imagine you wanted to remove all the water from you swimming pool. How would you start? You wouldn’t start by putting […]
Scoping for Insurance and Records
When The Flood Team or any water restoration company visits a potential customer one of the most important things is building a scope. Building a scope, or “scoping” is taking in all applicable data from a water loss and identifying the cost and time frame it will take to fix it. The scope is so […]
Category 3
Water losses are broken up into different categories. Category 3 is the worst. Category 3 means that the water contains lots of contaminants. Usually when we deal with category 3 losses we are dealing with sewage. So when we do a this kind of cleanup we have to take extra steps to make sure everything […]