Flash Floods Can Damage Your Norristown Home

1/31/2020 (Permalink)

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Heavy Downpours Cause Flash Floods in Norristown

Heavy downpours place lots of pressure on storm drains, streets, and homes. The water accumulates so quickly that the storm drains cannot handle the volume and the water backs up into streets, parking lots and basements. Within hours the water from a torrential downpour may have dissipated, however, the damage remains.

SERVPRO responds to flood damage in Norristown and surrounding areas immediately. Often our clients are distraught. Their homes and contents are a soggy mess. There may be contamination in the water, and often there is concern about diseases in addition to wondering how their families can ever recover from the damage.

Removing the Water
With basements flooded and the electricity off, SERVPRO can deploy truck-mounted pumps as well as submersible pumps to remove the water. If raw sewage has bubbled up through drains or was washed into the home by the floodwaters, we may need to pump the liquid into storage tanks for later disposal. We can also provide secondary power from generators brought to your home to run our equipment and also provide power to areas of the home requiring emergency power.

Once we have removed all of the water, we can investigate the damage and ensure the space is safe to enter. Electrical connections and the level of contamination of your home may represent a safety issue. In many cases, we cannot restore porous items. We can dispose of these items. We endeavor to clean as many items as possible.

With the owner's permission, SERVPRO can set up a staging area for our equipment. We also use this same area to store items that have been recovered from the flooded area and can be cleaned. Once contents are cleaned and dried, we move everything to a second staging area for storage until your home has been fully restored.

SERVPRO can help manage all of the flood damage restoration and recovery of your home after a flood. Our highly trained technicians provide decontamination, cleaning, and drying of the contents and the structure.

Call SERVPRO of Norristown at (610) 272-8520 for 24/7 service. We proudly serve Lower Providence Township, Bethel Hill, and surrounding areas. We’re Faster to Any Size Disaster.

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