We Are The Experts You Can Trust In Somerville When You Are Facing Flood Damage

11/13/2019 (Permalink)

Using our advanced cleaning techniques and state-of-the-art equipment, we will restore your home after a flood.

Engineered Flooring Drying for Class 1 Flood Damage in Somerville

Even though some flooding scenarios can be clean water losses, there are still many necessary steps to restoring affected materials in your Somerville home. Flooring can often experience the worst of flooding, as standing water can collect on these surfaces and begin saturating the material almost immediately. Depending on the porosity, certain types of flooring can be highly susceptible to substantial damages.

Engineered flooring might be more resistant than others to immediate flood damage after Somerville structural breaches, but they cannot entirely deter water damage. Though there are many varieties of this plank flooring, from interlocking tongue and groove to adhered units, the potential for eventual penetration is higher than you might believe. Drying out these affected materials is a priority of our SERVPRO professionals when we first arrive.

After extraction completes, we can focus on the surface drying of engineered flooring. Because these planks get comprised of multiple layers of thin wood glued together, penetration of the subflooring underneath can be a direct path to more substantial problems. Our professionals can use non-penetrating moisture meters once the surface moisture and standing water have gotten addressed to determine if any excessive moisture exists beneath the planks. Drying mats can be an excellent way to draw out moisture from this subflooring and support material underneath the plank, but only if more direct damage has not already occurred.

Our SERVPRO team must inspect planks and the thin seams between planks for swelling along the edges of the boards. Because of the composition of engineered flooring, this process is irreparable. The only solution left to restore structurally flood damaged planks is to remove them and reinstall them. We have a team of licensed contractors that can oversee the controlled demolition of this flooring and the efficient reinstallation when the house gets thoroughly dried.

Engineered flooring has a hardwood feel, making it a popular choice for modern construction. When flooding occurs, you can trust in the fast response and expertise of our SERVPRO of West Somerset County team to help protect these materials and the rest of your house from continued damages and threats. Give us a call anytime at (732) 805-9944.

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