What to Watch Keenly When Cleaning up Canoga Park Homes After Flood Damage

1/18/2022 (Permalink)

When you need flood and storm damage restoration for your home, SERVPRO should be the only thought for the job. We are here 24/7 365 days a year.

SERVPRO Prioritizes Safety in Canoga Park Homes During Cleaning and Afterwards

After flooding, you have to take several actions to ensure your Canoga Park home is safe. Cleaning is one of the mandatory steps to address soiling and manage contamination. Correctly running a cleaning exercise is essential for better results. It also guarantees safety for everyone involved.

Preparations are necessary before starting cleaning in case of flood damage in a Canoga Park home. Preparation involves different things, including managing the loss site and acquiring resources to facilitate various restoration tasks. Our SERVPRO teams evaluate the level of damage to determine the necessary preparation.

Common steps when preparing a flooded property include:

• Shutting off utilities like gas and electricity
• Setting a staging area for restoration equipment
• Moving contents within the house or relocating them to a different property

Preparation makes it easier to complete cleaning tasks like extracting water and shoveling mud or silt. It also separates unique tasks such as structural and content cleaning. For example, moving items out of the way paves the way for chores like shoveling out silt or pressure washing without soiling contents.

The safety of the cleaning crews and house occupants is critical. In the haste to complete cleaning tasks, it is possible to create many hazards. For example, disorganized hoses and cables from equipment create trip hazards. Alternatively, cleaning might remove visible soils but leave contaminants, thus exposing house occupants to dangerous materials. Our SERVPRO technicians take different measures to rid properties of contamination.

Essential steps in decontaminating a property include:

• Removing all porous materials in contact with floodwater
• Spraying broad spectrum disinfectants inundated areas
• Applying antimicrobials after finishing cleaning

Properly finishing the cleaning process is also essential. Our SERVPRO technicians ensure the property dries fully through dehumidification. We also apply deodorizers to remove any odors.

SERVPRO of Canoga Park / West Hills cleans your property to sanitary levels after flood damage. Call us at (818) 998-1500. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.