Flooding In Your Homewood Property

2/29/2020 (Permalink)

“Like it never even happened.”

Falling Tree Limbs Increase Flooding Chance for Homewood Houses

Torrential rainfall, combined with high winds, can be a dangerous combination for dying trees on your Homewood property. While many of the storms that pass through the area can be destructive enough to uproot entire trees and allow them to fall into nearby structures, often the removal of a full limb can also be a catastrophe for a close residence. The weight of a large tree limb can collapse a portion of a roof or puncture it to allow runoff and direct rainfall inside.

While you cannot do much to prevent the destructive forces of nature and their effect on the trees on your property, you can reach out to the right professionals to address the storm and flood damage in your Homewood house. With structural breaches, runoff and wind-driven rain can immediately enter the property, allowing it first to affect the attic space and then spread quickly down into the living areas of your home. A combination of strategies is necessary when addressing these circumstances.

Emergency Roof Repair
Removing the tree limb is one of the first ways to combat the damage that has occurred in your residence. The hole left must get covered over with a reinforced tarp framed on the outside with wood planks by our SERVPRO contractors. This coverage prevents further floodwater penetration to allow drying to be effective.

Extraction Services
Removing surface water still on the unfinished flooring and surfaces in the attic space can reduce the migration of this moisture elsewhere. For these situations, the ideal tool is the electric submersible pump or wet vacuum, as both are mobile and versatile.

Cavity Drying
The faster that our SERVPRO team can dry out the structural cavity between the attic and the floor beneath it, the better in restoration terms. Keeping the moisture damage contained in the structural assembly between the floor and ceiling between levels can allow our team to utilize tools like the positive pressure systems to dry out saturated materials on-site.

Tree limbs can be a destructive force against your house, but our SERVPRO of Matteson-Homewood restorers and contractors can arrive quickly to help. Give us a call at (708) 747-9925.

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