What to Expect During the Home Water Damage Restoration Process
Water can create quite the drama. That simple substance so critical to life can damage a home in a matter of minutes. Insurance companies nation-wide understand what water in the wrong place does to a home—1 in 50 insured clients file water damage claims every year! When your home is faced with a water damage situation, […]
What IICRC Training Means for You
Today we’re going to discuss what IICRC training means for you. As a customer it is important to make sure that you work with a qualified professional. In order to do this a training standard must be set. This standard is set by the IICRC. Working with an IICRC certified technician helps make sure the […]
The Fundamentals of Drying
Drying your home after a water damage loss can be difficult. It takes attention to detail and a scientific approach. But drying can become less difficult when you remember four items that effect the quality of your drying environment. The drying environment is the established area that you are trying to dry. These four points […]
Antimicrobial Application
Antimicrobials are an important step to any mold or water remediation. Using an antimicrobial does not count as mold remediation on its own. This is why just using bleach won’t fix your mold problem. Antimicrobial must be used in conjuncture with removal of the source issue. All contaminated materials must be removed before the use […]
Extreme Extraction
Extreme extraction is one of the many services we offer. Though water extraction has always been something we offer, extreme extraction is a little bit newer. If you’ve ever had your carpets cleaned or dealt with water damage then you’ve probably seen what a standard extraction machine looks like. It looks kind of like a […]
Box Out
This week we want to talk about doing a box out. After speaking about cross contamination last week we thought we would expand upon that idea and talk about a box out. A box out is a service that many people don’t realize they need. They also don’t know that a lot of times a […]
Moisture Mapping
Moisture mapping is a key process here at The Flood Team. It’s one of the first things we do when we show up at a water damage loss. Moisture mapping is important for insurance, billing, proper cleaning and checking our work. Moisture mapping is a lot like it sounds. When a person has a water […]
Free Water & Bound Water
Free water, bound water and water vapor are the topic of today’s blog. When it comes to water damage there are three ways that water exists in wood. How the water is contained will determine how it is removed. Let’s start with free water. Free water is in a liquid phase that exists within the […]
Busted Pipes
This week we were going to talk about evaporation potential, but considering the cold snap of weather that has hit us we wanted to talk about another topic. So evaporation potential will have to wait till next week. Instead today we’ll be talking about busted pipes. Did you know that busted pipes account for a […]
Evaporation Potential
As promised we’re going to talk about evaporation potential today. Evaporation Potential is key to drying your home. We work with evaporation potential on a daily basis to help get people’s lives back to normal. So what is evaporation potential? Evaporation potential is a formula that gives a value to the difference between vapor pressure […]