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Basement flooding can be a result of water making its way through cracks in your foundation, windows, leaking plumbing, or a sewer backup due to severe rainfall. Whatever the source of the water is, it's important to get it pumped out, dried and sanitized quickly before mold starts growing.
Mold is often a result of moisture and poor air movement. If black mold starts to grow and is not removed, it can overrun your home and make you sick. Black mold is also know as Stachybotrys chlorohalonata. Symptoms of black mold sickness include chronic fatigue, headaches, fever, irritation to the eyes, mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and throat, sneezing, coughing (chronic). In some cases a rash can develop. Severe cases can include nausea, vomiting and bleeding of the lungs and nasal passage.
You can test for mold by purchasing a mold test kit from your local home improvement store. Simply follow the instructions, send in the sample and wait for the results to be sent back.
If you find out you have or already know you have mold in your home, don't wait another minute. Call Flood Specialists immediately and stay away from the mold. Do not disturb the area until help arrives.
Flood Specialists, Inc. offers Dry Ice Blast cleaning which uses CO2 to clean surfaces. Environmentally friendly and approved by the USDA, FDA, and EPA.
Dry ice cleaning works by accelerating pellets of very cold dry ice (CO2) against a dirty surface. When the pellets come into contact with the surface, the CO2 expands by approximately 800 times forcing the dirt to dislodge itself from the surface while leaving the surface unharmed.
Dry ice blasting can clean graffiti, wood decks and floors, concrete fountains, fireplaces, smoke damage, soot, and much more.
Hardwood floors that have been exposed to excessive moisture of any kind can result in damage like cupping and/or buckling if they are not quickly dried. Flood Specialists, Inc. uses powerful water extraction tools to safely remove the moisture from your wood floors. If addressed quickly, the cupping or buckling can be reduced or eliminated, avoiding you costly repairs or replacement.
Flood Specialists, Inc. uses state-of-the-art technology to effectively and efficiently repair or restore wet documents and valuable keepsakes. Our vacuum freeze drying capabilities help set us apart from other restoration companies in the industry.
Because items such as important and sensitive documents, books, heirlooms and other keepsakes are often of great value, the ability to preserve or restore them should be of utmost concern to insurance providers. In many cases they can mean just as much to the insured as the damage to the structures and premises themselves.
Learn how freeze drying is used to restore wet documents and books.
If you have experienced a sewage backup in your home or business, you don't need pictures to understand the need to quickly clean and disinfect the area. Each year hundreds of thousands of incidents take place. This sewage backup creates an environment in which potentially deadly pathogens are introduced into the home or business and conditions are created in which toxic black mold can grow in the basement.
After each sewage backup cleaning, Flood Specialists, Inc. uses disinfection products (sanitizing agents, germicides, & antimicrobial treatments) that arrest the growth of bacteria, fungi, mildew, and other harmful microorganisms. The affected area is also thoroughly deodorized.
Finished walls, basements, furniture, wood floors, and ceilings can be restored with advanced water extraction equipment.
We use state of the art tools to mitigate structural damage to your property caused by minor leaks - to major floods. Everything from water extraction systems to air drying machines are used to safely repair/restore the affected area.
View some of the water damage tools we use.
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