Water Damage Technicians In Fruita Explain Different Types Of Equipment Used

9/13/2018 (Permalink)

As your house in Fruita gets older, appliances are likely to break, and pipes can develop leaks over time.

Water Damage Equipment

As your house in Fruita gets older, appliances are likely to break, and pipes can develop leaks over time. When a water pipe or appliance malfunctions, water damage can occur to your home. The longer the water pours into a building, the worse problems can get. If building materials or structural components get saturated, they can lose their strength and fall apart. If items inside your house stay wet for too long, the water damage project can quickly turn into a situation where mold remediation is required.

Whenever our SERVPRO technicians get called to an emergency situation, we take steps to prevent microbial growth. We know that removing moisture from your building materials and contents within 48 hours after water damage occurs in Fruita is essential to prevent secondary issues from taking place such as mold. To accomplish complete moisture removal in such a short period, we utilize several different techniques and types of specialized equipment depending on each situation.

In the beginning, our SERVPRO technicians use moisture sensors and other measuring instruments. To test whether the carpet is wet or not we use a moisture sensor that consists of a metal rod with a handle on it with two probes on the bottom. When the probes sense moisture, a light lights up, and a sound is made. We also use other types of meters to test moisture content inside your wooden studs and drywall. These meters give us results in the form of a percentage or grains per square inch numbers.

Once we determine what materials were affected, we start extracting water using industrial extractors. Some of these extractors are portable that we can use to get into tight spots, others are large and mounted to a vehicle. We attach different types of tools to the extractor based on what kind of materials were affected. Small extraction tools are used to pull out moisture from furniture. If thick carpets get saturated, we can use a heavy duty extractor that uses the weight of its operator to compress the fabric.

If an appliance ever breaks at your place of residence, call SERVPRO of Grand Junction at (970) 241-8181 any time of the day.

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