Flood Damage in Englewood Can Be Costly

1/31/2017 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Tip: Keep Your Gutter Clean to Prevent Water Damage to Your Englewood Home

SERVPRO Tip: Inquiry How to Maintain a Home and Mitigate Storm Damage

Flooding is not a common occurrence in most parts of New Jersey, but when it does happen, we have seen it destroy entire neighborhoods. Storms can drive wind and water into every possible corner of a house, condo and apartment building. Clean-up and replacement of property can be very expensive.

Here at SERVPRO, we do everything possible to reduce the effects and the cost of flood damage to your Englewood home. The initial step in getting this done is to call us for a thorough, home inspection. The inspection helps us determine what we can do to keep the water from getting into your home in the first place.

Our response team members are trained and certified to IICRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification) standards. They use an exhaustive checklist that covers every possible way for water to get into your home. In our experience, two of the most common sources of water entry into your home are misaligned or damaged drain pipes and rain gutters. Misaligned drain pipes can send stormwater running down the side of a structure and into the foundation instead of away from it. The additional water also loosens soil which enters your home with the water, making clean-up more difficult, time-consuming and costly.

Blocked rain gutters can push water back onto the roof where it soaks up the additional rainfall and allows it to get into the attic and other parts of the structure. The water now drains inside your home to the lowest point, increasing flooding and potentially damaging every piece of building material it touches. Storm winds drive improperly secured drain pipes and rain gutters against the roof and walls of your home. The unsecured equipment causes further physical damage that allows more water to enter the structure, increasing the amount of water damage throughout the structure.

Before storms strike our neighborhoods again, SERVPRO of Teaneck / Englewood wants to make sure we have done everything possible to help you prevent floods from ruining your home. Our team members are ready to examine your home from roof to basement; recommending actions you can take yourself (securing loose drain pipes) and what you need us to perform for you (reattaching gutters to the roof line).

Ask us about our ERP--Emergency Ready Profile mobile app to mitigate and prevent losses. Call our offices today at (201) 266-0482 to schedule an inspection and protect your home.