Crawl Space Water Damage In Your Cartersville Home

7/31/2018 (Permalink)

If you have a crawl space under your Cartersville home, you might find this information useful. Water can enter your home's crawlspace or basement from various sources. These include plumbing leaks, groundwater, and heavy rain. Water can cause problems in side of a crawl space by causing mold, wood rot, electric problems, and mildew.

• The most obvious source of water tends to be heavy rain water. This type of water incursion comes after a large rainstorms and result in noticeable pools of water gathering in low spots in the crawlspace or basement. Even smaller showers can cause water damage as well, and can be detected by noting a pattern of moisture or water developing in your basement or crawlspace regularly. 
• Cracks in your home's foundation can be the source of crawlspace moisture. Ground water moves along the water table and when the ground water come in contact with even a small crack in the foundation of your home, water can make its way in.

No matter what the situation is, you should get it taken care of a soon as you can to avoid additional water damage to your Cartersville home. Our SERVPRO professionals are always standing by to assist you with an emergency like this.

Since working in water-damaged crawl spaces can be a challenge due to small access doors which makes equipment challenging to pass through. We have specialized equipment that will allow us to place equipment in tight spaces, insuring that your crawlspace is dried thoroughly.

SERVPRO staff also checks for electrical hazards which may be present and ensure that electrical circuits under your home are deactivated. The water in crawl spaces is usually black or gray water because of dirt floors, so we also wear appropriate safety equipment.

We can then remove the standing water from the crawl space. Finding the lowest point, we use a submersible pump to get rid of the majority of the water. Once it is removed, we then figure out the best way to dry out the structural parts of your floor. We block off foundation vents unless we can use an open drying system.

If possible, we place dehumidifiers and air movers in the crawl space to finish the drying. We might need to remove a section of the floor or other methods if they do not fit. We also tent the area off to create a smaller drying area.

We can use a flex hose as a duct if our equipment does not fit so air can be moved from dehumidifiers into the crawl space. A piece of light gauge sheet metal can be cut to fit the outlet of the dehumidifier to vent dry air into spaces which are small.

SERVPRO of Bartow County has different methods of drying the crawl space in your home in Cartersville, Adairsville, Emerson, Acworth, or Euharlee when space is tight.

Call us at (770)387-7455 as soon as you realize a problem, and we work with you to get your home dry and safe again.

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