Does Hardwood Flooring Require Removal After Floods?

7/8/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO professionals are trained to handle all types of water damage in your home.

Flooding can spread quickly throughout your Poughkeepsie home, but with the premier extraction tools available, we can reduce how severe and threatening these conditions become.

Flooding in your Poughkeepsie home can initially seem impossible to clean and restore. Ideally, the objective of our SERVPRO technicians is to limit the amount of build back and reconstruction necessary to recover the property entirely. This objective comes with a fast response involving premier recovery tools, including powerful extractors, air movers, dehumidifiers, and other specialty tools to remove water and moisture from the damaged areas. 

Despite how challenging removing standing water might be, it is often the flood damage repair in Poughkeepsie homes that is the most time-consuming and costly. With sensitive materials like hardwood flooring, exposure to flood water could have immediate detrimental effects. The longer this exposure persists, the harder that successful restoration effort becomes. In some situations, the only suitable solution is to remove portions of the wood flooring and reinstall them at a later date after mitigation completes. Some of the compromising conditions that could require controlled demolition and material replacement include:

• Overexposure of water damage
• Physical damage to plank (warping, bloating, peeling)
• Contamination exposure

What Happens When Hardwood Becomes Too Saturated? 

With a team of in-house contractors and the restoration professionals that we provide, we can address a greater spectrum of recovery and repair needs for your home after a flood. Instead of pursuing subcontractors to do construction work, we can meet each of these phases at the appropriate times without extended waits. Saturated hardwood flooring can become too weak to support the occupants of the house or show physical damage that restoration cannot correct. Removing portions of flooring can ensure that our team can return your home to its pre loss-condition fast.

Floods can compromise flooring materials, but our SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County contractors and restoration technicians can help make it “Like it never even happened.” Give us a call today at (845) 635-4550.

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