How Water Damage Affects Your Home

1/2/2019 (Permalink)

It's crucial you know how water damage affects your home. SERVPRO of Cape Girardeau & Scott Counties can make it "Like it never even happened."

Wonder how water damage affects your home? Significantly! When it comes to water damage or flood damage, time is of the absolute essence. And if it’s not properly handled, it can result in further damage, such as mold damage. It’s critical that you contact the water damage specialists at SERVPRO of Cape Girardeau & Scott Counties at the first sign of water or flood damage.

According to this article from Angie’s List, below you will see just how water damage can affect your home within minutes, hours, days and weeks.

Water damage within minutes:

• Water contamination spreads, rapidly increasing claim costs.
• Moisture-sensitive furniture finishes begin to turn white.
• Furniture standing on saturated carpets will begin to leach and stain the carpeting.

Water damage within hours:

• Furniture in direct contact with water begins to delaminate and swell.
• Normal household odors, amplified by humidity, become glaringly apparent.
• Dyes from non-colorfast fabrics begin to bleed.

Water damage within days:

• Fungi appear, along with their characteristic musty odors.
• Severe warping and cupping of wood become apparent. Wood floors may become unsalvageable.
• Paint blisters, and wallpaper adhesives release and start to peel away.
• Wood structural members begin to swell, warp and split apart.

Water damage within weeks:

• Mold sinks roots into organic materials and destroys their integrity.
• Occupants must be evacuated due to health hazards.
• Allergen sensitivity may arise from microbial growth.
• A complete gutting of the structure may be necessary, which will drive the claim up astronomically and displace the occupants.

Since water damage greatly affects your home and can cause serious damage, SERVPRO of Cape Girardeau & Scott Counties offers 24-hour emergency services. We’re faster to any size disaster. In many cleaning and restoration situations, immediate action is needed. With over 1,700 U.S. and Canadian Franchise locations, SERVPRO is strategically positioned to be faster to any size emergency. An immediate response helps to minimize the damage and the cleaning and restoration costs.

Water is particularly invasive, quickly spreading throughout your property and being absorbed into floors, walls, furniture, etc. SERVPRO of Cape Girardeau & Scott Counties arrives quickly and starts the water extraction process almost immediately.

Upon reading this, you learned how water damage can affect your home immensely. But, with a trusted leader, you can count on SERVPRO of Cape Girardeau & Scott Counties to get your residential property back inhabitable and “Like it never even happened.” That way, you can get back to work, back to life. For all your water damage or flood needs, call us: 573-339-1948.