What to Do When a Storm Floods Your Lancaster Home With Unsafe Black Water

3/31/2018 (Permalink)

Flooding can affect many homes in your area simultaneously. Contact SERVPRO to quickly come out and dry out your property.

Team SERVPRO Understands That Drying Out Your Home Quickly After Flooding in a Necessary Step Towards Preventing Secondary Damages

Intense storms of significant magnitude can cause flood damage to your home swiftly. There are many ways the water can penetrate your Lancaster residence depending on the severity of the storm. Debris can break a window, or strong winds could blast a door wide open, for example. The water can get into your home swiftly, but water from storm floods is not always clean. Luckily, help is close at hand to assist with the clean up after the flood.
 
Storm floods in Lancaster can often carry a variety of debris and contaminants into your home. In a matter of moments, things like pesticides, petroleum products, and sewage can find its way in, and that water can damage your belongings. Not to mention it is unsafe to be in contact with the unclean water, which we classify as black water.
 
Skilled SERVPRO technicians can get to your house as soon as possible after your call to help with the water removal, clean up, and drying after the flood. Once we remove all of the water, we can determine what is salvageable and what is not. Unfortunately, when black water contaminates your carpets and rugs, they must be thrown away as they are unsafe to keep in your home.
 
At SERVPRO, we understand that you can lose some belongings to the black water and that it can be frustrating. As a result, our technicians can help you create an inventory of what you lost during the flood. Afterward, we can assist you in creating an insurance claim so that you may replace any lost belongings. After helping you with the claim, we can begin to clean up and dry out your home.
 
When flooding brings black water, and it damages your home, do not wait. Day or night, call SERVPRO of the Fitchburg-Leominster area at (978) 537-1500. We can get our technicians to your home swiftly to return it to its pre-flood state as soon as possible.
 
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