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What All Can SERVPRO Do After Disasters Strike Syracuse Structures?
8/30/2020 (Permalink)
While you might not know what kind of restoration service your home could require, you can be assured that our team can help.
Many have come to depend on the fast and experienced response of our restoration professionals in an emergency between our large commercial structures and thousands of homes.
With both the university and countless other properties throughout Syracuse, we have become a trusted name for reliable responses when disasters strike. Along with two other sister franchises both under the operation of our owner Tim Skov, we have a unified approach to handling both large loss situations and conditions where many properties become damaged simultaneously. Because there is such a wide variety of potential disasters that could impact area properties, we have skilled technicians in all restoration niches, including water, fire, storm, flood, and mold remediation. We even have trained technicians for cleaning up biohazardous threats.
Commercial
Our restoration professionals can stay busy with the recovery of commercial properties between all of the buildings and structures on Syracuse University’s campus and surrounding areas. When you combine the sprawling district with the thousands of other businesses and companies relying on our fast and confident response for disasters, preparedness for emergencies is an area where we must put considerable focus.
What Immediate Actions Can Our Restorers Take to Recover the Property?
The protection of your property is vital when our team first arrives. With situations like flooding or even fire loss events, your Syracuse business could suffer more significant damages because of structural weaknesses and vulnerabilities that exist. Our in-house contractors can work alongside restoration technicians to provide immediate emergency services that can reduce the secondary effects likely to follow unchecked structural openings. Some of these include:
• Board-up
• Tarping
• Temporary Fencing
• Extraction
• Controlled Demolition
How Can My Business Get Thoroughly Clean?
Thoroughly cleaning your property is a more pressing concern and need than ever before. Syracuse homes and businesses have seen how quickly situations like the global COVID-19 pandemic swept through New York, so it is necessary to take the appropriate measures to clean surfaces and shared spaces. Our defensive cleaning program called Certified: SERVPRO Cleaned is our most comprehensive effort to provide this higher level of deep cleaning.
Storm
Over the past several decades, Syracuse has fallen victim to dominant torrential rainfall, hurricane-level storms, and heavy snowfall that damage structures under its weight. All of these conditions can impact the area at different times of the year, keeping our professionals in need of a fast response once we are notified of potential emergencies.
Why Do Structural Concerns Need to Get Repaired First?
It is often vital for our contractors to work even before our mitigation specialists start their process. Water extraction and other restoration approaches can be ineffective without first addressing structural concerns for the Syracuse property. When our contractors arrive alongside restoration technicians, we can begin emergency services designed exclusively to seal up openings in the structure and reduce the overall loss to the building.
Can Flooding Get Removed?
Flooding is an unfortunate side effect of nearly every storm loss situation. When structural vulnerabilities exist, water penetration is often not far behind for your Syracuse home or business. Removing standing water can reduce the saturation and migration of flooding throughout the property. Some of the practical tools that we use for extraction include:
• Wet Vacuums
• Submersible Pumps
• Air Movers
• Dehumidifiers
Fire
One of the most effective ways to address fire loss incidents in Syracuse homes and businesses involves assessing the damage and migration of the effects. Job scoping is a vital phase of determining the extent of the damage and the severity of structural deterioration in your home after fire losses. This phase also helps our technicians evaluate your personal belongings to see what can be salvaged, what has already become too damaged, and what can benefit from offsite recovery efforts.
Are Soot Residues Challenging to Remove?
Smoke residues can be present on many surfaces throughout your Syracuse home. Because there are many potential sources and types of these smoke residues, there is no one set solution to remove these coatings from materials and contents. For example, wet smoke residues are thicker and more challenging to remove than dry smoke. Some of the effective strategies that we have for eliminating soot concerns include:
• Surface Cleaning
• Abrasive and Agitative Cleaning Approaches
• Soda Blasting
• Controlled Demolition
What Tools Eliminate Lingering Odors?
The odors left behind after a fire can be overwhelming in specific areas of your Syracuse property. Where fires burn the longest are often points where odors can be the strongest. We have multiple tools that can address these harsh scents circulating in the environment and embedded into porous materials and content throughout the house. We have effective solutions for neutralizing odors from thermal fogging to hydroxyl and ozone generators.
Water
There is often a 48-hour window that restorers utilize beginning with the understood starting point of water loss incidents. This window of time is usually a countdown when certain materials exposed to water loss and surface moisture concerns become unsalvageable. It is beneficial for Syracuse homeowners to react fast to water loss emergencies to ensure that our professionals can reach your home and began mitigation efforts as quickly as possible.
What Are Effective Water Removal Solutions?
Extraction is a vital effort because standing water can be such a threat to your home. When your Syracuse structure battles pooling water in specific areas, there are multiple tools that we can use to address these concerns. Water removal can be much more efficient through the deployment of machines and attachments such as:
• Weighted Extractors
• Wet Vacuums
• Carpet Wands
• Submersible Pumps
What Areas Require Focused Drying Attention?
Some areas are more challenging to dry than others in your Syracuse home. While air movers in dehumidifiers can be useful for many surface concerns, and even water damaged contents, specialty equipment is often required to impact moisture pockets beyond the surface. Tools like our floor mat drying system and positive pressure systems can both be vital in this effort.
While you might not know what kind of restoration service your home could require, you can be assured that our SERVPRO of East Onondaga County team can help. Give us a call anytime at (315) 446-8776.