Water Cleanup Inside Your Everett Home

4/3/2020 (Permalink)

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Conducting Water Cleanup Inside Your Everett House's Utility Closet

The utility closet inside your Everett home is a place where appliances such as your water heater and your furnace are often stored. These appliances contain plumbing that runs in and out of the closet. If one of the pipes develops a leak or a tank breaks on your heater, conducting water cleanup could become essential when liquid starts accumulating.

Water cleanup in your Everett house can also involve dealing with wet contents and building materials away from the source. Since liquid follows the least resistant path, it will first head down due to gravity and then flow to other rooms outside your utility closet. The moisture can also flow into the cavity beneath your floors.

Stopping The Flow From Its Source
Before our SERVPRO technicians begin any remediation efforts, we must stop water from flowing into your closet and the rest of your building. First, we can shut off the water flowing into your utility closet if there is a valve nearby or shut off the main valve to your house. Once the flow is discontinued, we can then further assess the situation and determine how far away from the source the moisture traveled.

Inspecting For Moisture
When you suffer from an appliance malfunction or a plumbing failure, some of the items affected can be obvious. For example, wet linoleum floors or tiles can start to peel up or delaminate,e and tiles can become dislodged. Other damage, however, can be less noticeable, but may still cause you problems if mitigation does not occur promptly.

The following instruments can help our SERVPRO crew determine how wet items inside your utility closet got and how far outside the source the H2O traveled.

    •    Handheld carpet sensors can tell us whether your carpets near your closet got wet or not.
    •    Non-penetrating moisture meters can detect moisture without having to hammer a probe into the material, and they can be used to figure out how far away from the source issues are present.
    •    Penetrating moisture sensors can be used to test the drywall in your utility closet, the wooden studs, and your subfloors.

A leak inside your utility closet can quickly become catastrophic, and it is an incident that can be handled professionally by calling SERVPRO of North Everett / Lake Stevens / Monroe at (360) 243-8313 24/7. We’re Faster to Any Size Disaster.

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