Learning To Clean Quicker

If your house or storage shed was recently flooded with water for any reasons, make sure that you call a water restoration company right away. A water restoration company can save your books, photos, records and other precious memory items. Here is what you and a water restoration company can do to help preserve your memories:

Call Immediately

Most water restoration companies operate on an on-call basis. In order to save your precious photos, books, records and papers, you need to act quickly. If the first company you call cannot dispatch someone immediately to assist you, hang up and quickly call the next company. Every minute that you waste is time that could have been spent saving your memories.

Gather Up The Items

While you are waiting for the water restoration team to show up, you can begin gathering up the items and removing them from the water. Wear gloves and be very careful; remember that paper items will tear more easily when they are wet. Removing them as quickly as possible from the water will prevent them from soaking in more water and becoming more damaged.

Once the team arrives, they will start gathering up the items themselves. Let them know what items are most important to you to save so they can begin the next step with them as soon as possible.

Freeze Dry The Items

Once the items have been gathered up, an advanced water damage team will freeze dry your items in an attempt to save and preserve them. Freeze drying uses a process called sublimation to save your paper based belongings.

Your belongings are put into a device that is extremely cold, well below zero degrees, that is filled with low pressure air. The cold temperatures and the pressure of the device will cause all the water that in your belongings to skip the liquid stage, and immediately turn into water vapor. The pressure inside the device will cause the water vapor to rise and form ice.

This method is one of the most advanced and safest ways to remove water from items such as photos, books and records. However, it is only effective if it is done within a few hours of your belongings becoming damaged.

If your house or storage shed is flooded with water, the first thing you need to do is call a professional water restoration company, like Ringstad Carpet Cleaning & Restoration, to come assist you. If you have precious memories, such as photos, letters, books or records that have been damaged, time is of the essence. The sooner a water restoration team can arrive, collect the items and freeze dry them, the great chance you have of saving those precious memories.