Water Damage - Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property!

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property!

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Water damage can ruin your carpets, your floors, your upholstered furniture, walls, structural properties – all of it – and in a hurry.  You need the prompt response of an experienced Water Damage Restoration team. It takes a team effort to secure the water extraction, drying and restorative actions that can mean so much to your home or business property.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Experience is a MUST in dealing with water damage, as there are some measures to take, and some measures not to take, depending on several factors. An experienced Water Damage Restoration professional will understand that the outside temperature affects what you are doing to the inside damage.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! If it is a cooler season, you will be advised to leave the heat on to assist in drying.  If it is the summer, use air conditioning if it is available. To remove as much water as possible, you will need the powerful water extraction equipment that your ServiceMaster Clean Care technician can provide, as well as the high-powered drying fans they also provide.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Water extraction equipment can also be used for upholstered furniture if thoroughly saturated. Most non-upholstered furniture can be wiped dry – with thorough efforts to all surfaces.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Draperies can be removed and most importantly gotten off carpeted areas if wet, and hung on a hanger to dry or removed to a drier location if time and facilities allow.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Other loose items such as area rugs and carpets and anything else lying on a wet floor need to be removed so the water extraction equipment and fans can get at all the carpet fibers or other surfaces.

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! Some fabrics, such as leather need to be hung to dry – and have to be dried at room temperature – not with excessive heat. You don’t want to make mistakes such as entering a room with free-standing water when your electricity is still on, or trying to use electrical equipment on wet floors or carpets, such as your vacuum !

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Water Damage – Mitigating the Damage and Restoring your Property! The best advice by far is to contact your Grand Rapids ServiceMaster Clean Care IICRC certified professional on their emergency hotline for immediate service for your safety and your best chance at the effective water damage restoration of your property! 1-866-431-0492