How Our Water Damage Restoration Process Can Restore Your West Monroe Home To Pre-Damage Condition

11/19/2018 (Permalink)

When water saturates hardwood flooring, the fibers swell, and permanent damage can follow.

Take It To The Mat When Water Damages Your West Monroe Hardwood Floors

Hardwood floors have been a desirable feature in West Monroe homes for the nearly 200 years this Ouachita Parish community has been inhabited. Beautiful and durable, wood floors continue to be a top choice of architects, home designers, and homeowners. When water saturates hardwood flooring, the fibers swell, and permanent damage can follow. Our professional water removal equipment and techniques can reduce or eliminate the effects if applied to your scenario quickly.

When water damage affects your hardwood floors in West Monroe, the result can be one or more of the following issues -- warping, buckling, cupping, or crowning. Depending on the penetration direction of the water, the hardwood planks change dimension as water infiltrates. The wood becomes distorted, crowded in placement, and even lifts off the subfloor in extreme cases. Advanced drying strategies can halt the progression of wavy, ill-fitting sections.

The first step SERVPRO takes when water threatens a hardwood floor is a thorough extraction of surface water. Our wanded, truck-mounted extractors suction standing water off and even pull moisture from below the surface planks. Our IICRC trained technicians take moisture level readings to establish baselines for drying goals, making sure to sample the subfloor layers as well to ensure excess moisture does not migrate from a wet lower level up into the surface-dried hardwood.

Heavy-duty drying mats are an effective solution to pull moisture from several layers of flooring. Technicians attach the flat, plastic mats to areas of the floor with tape, sealing the edges. Hoses connect the mats to a negative air pressure extraction system. When the pressure engages, it sucks residual water into containment tanks for disposal. SERVPRO employees periodically use moisture meters to gauge the drying progress.

We also consider drying from beneath the subfloor when that layer is exposed. For example, we might position air movers and heaters in a basement below a wet hardwood floor in a living or dining room. More than one method might be used to hasten the drying process.

Let SERVPRO of Monroe / West Monroe bring 21st-century water damage mitigation technology to lovely hardwood floors installed recently or dating back many decades. Call (318) 345-5121 to schedule an assessment by one of our experienced project managers after a water loss.

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