Flood Damage in Your Nashville Finished Basement

7/23/2018 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Technicians Remediate Flooding in Any Part of Your Home

While you do not always consider the detrimental effects of severe weather systems passing through the area, many Nashville homes are at risks that they have yet to realize. Structural concerns are a leading cause of instances of flooding, where degrading materials in your home's construction allow for water to pass through easily. Ultimately, the result is several inches of water in lower levels of your house.

Traditional flooding and flash flooding are also potential possibilities for your house during longer bouts of severe weather. Once the ground becomes overly saturated, it fails to absorb the torrential rainfall. Regardless of the avenue the water took to enter your residence, restoring the flood damages in Nashville is often an intricate process.

Our SERVPRO professionals might begin with the extraction of the water as a form of mitigation to lessen any potential damage from this point, but a primary focus for our technicians is to isolate the entry point and repair this damage as well. Eliminating this penetration point can keep further flooding from occurring while the restoration process continues.

In areas like the basement, many homeowners have concrete floors and block walls. For those with a finished basement, the damage to the materials like your drywall and flooring can be irreparable after even a short time exposed to the pooling floodwaters. Finished basements often require flood cuts to get made, removing anything from several inches to several feet from the foot of drywall or paneling up to where the water has not reached.

The removal of this material can help our SERVPRO technicians gain better access for drying the affected areas. Ultimately, replacing these portions of drywall rarely is challenging, and becomes a way to make the restoration more efficient overall.

Overcoming flood damage can be a challenge when you find it unexpectedly. Conventional cleaning and drying methods can rarely keep up with the high volume of water present, so these processes should get handled by professionals. Our SERVPRO of Madison / Goodlettsville technicians are available 24/7 by calling (615) 868-5324.

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