What Should You Do When Water Damages Your Santa Ana Residence

5/3/2019 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Santa Ana South is always ready to go to make it "Like it never even happened."

Water Damage Restoration for Your Santa Ana Home 

You’ve been out all day, only to come home to discover that a child left the water running in the upstairs bathtub, with it plugged. You now have water coming down through your living room ceiling, onto the carpet and furniture. With the extreme amount of damage that needs to be cleaned up in your Santa Ana home, you need to act quickly.  

Water damage such as this in your Santa Ana residence is overwhelming, but the professionals at SERVPRO can still fix it up to look as if nothing ever happened. We have the training and tools needed to clean up the water and the damage. Plus we do so in a timely fashion so you and your family can get back to your everyday life.  

When your upstairs bathroom floods, the first thing to do is shut the water off. If you concentrate on sopping the water up, the problem continues to grow. You can even close the fixture’s water supply valves or close the main water valve for your home.  

In some restoration cases, SERVPRO staff can perform drying of your carpeting and padding in-place. The basic idea is to extract water from the carpet more efficiently and use more air movers and dehumidifiers. We do not need to roll back the carpet or remove the pad.  

We do this when possible because it does have several advantages. This method first causes you and your family less disruption, and furniture also does not need to be moved out of the room.  Your carpeting incurs less damage when seams do not need cutting, and the carpet does not need reinstalling.  There is also less chance of delamination.  

The surest way to prevent this type of damage in the future is to take preventive steps. The overflow drain in your bathtub often is forgotten, but these drains can clog up with debris over time. Pouring bleach down the drain from time to time can break up the clogs inside of them so that they can work properly.  

SERVPRO of Santa Ana South can restore your home in Santa Ana or the surrounding areas after a significant water loss like this, but do not hesitate to call us. The water continues to do more damage the longer it sits, so contact us right away at (714) 558-7772, so we can help you out.

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