Fire or Water Damage? Don’t Try to Clean up Water Yourself, Find out Why You Need to Hire a Professional!

Has your home been affected by a fire or flood? If your home has sustained water damage from a fire, flood, or storm, you must hire a professional contractor. Cleaning up water damage is a job best done by professionals because water damage will cause more than just a change in appearance. If water soaks into the walls, it can lead to mold damage. Mold can cause severe respiratory disease and other medical problems.

Professional assistance is needed to repair and replace any damaged parts of your home. Most home insurance policies include emergency flood repair to be covered service and will cover your costs. If a home is a complete loss, it would be considered a covered loss, and the insurance company would replace the house. If you have been in a flood, call your insurance company as soon as possible so they can begin the repair process.

Homes that have been in smaller storms may be damaged by water spillage. The damage may be less than a large storm, but it will still require an emergency clean up of damage. Check your home insurance policy for details. Charitable organizations like the Red Cross may also offer you help when you must wait for repairs.

Fire and water damage restoration is an unfortunate, yet necessary residential and commercial cleaning services that are necessary after a building or home suffers damage from a fire, flood or a storm. Research from 2010 found that in the United States, there were 362,100 residential building fires. After a fire is put on in a residential or commercial building, if there is no large structural damage, the building can be revived if the building has gone through the proper fire and water damage restoration.

The water used to put out a fire, or water that has entered a building from a storm or flood is imperative to be cleaned up. In fact, water damage is the 3rd largest cause of homeowner loss. Water and moisture that has not been properly removed from a building can result in the growth of black mold. In order to grow, mold requires moisture. Additionally, molds grow best in warm, damp and humid conditions, black mold spreads by making spores. Although some mold species can obtain moisture from humidity within the air, most black mold detection in buildings are caused from water damage.

If you’re home has experienced water damage from either a fire, frozen pipes that have busted, a storm, or even a flood, it is extremely important to have professional mold remediation contractors come to properly remove the moisture from your home. Depending on the length of exposure and volume of black mold inhaled or ingested, symptoms can manifest as chronic fatigue, headaches, fever, irritation to various areas including the eyes, mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and throat, as well as other symptoms such as sneezing, rashes, and chronic coughing. In severe cases of exposure to black mold, symptoms can include extreme nausea, vomiting, and bleeding in the lungs and/or nose.