Your House Was Under Water

You return to your house after a flood. The first thing you should do is to go for the phone and see if it is working. If working, you should look in the yellow pages for flood disaster clean-up. They will come to your house with all of the industrial vacuums that you will need to begin the process of drying your walls. Because, believe it or not, while your furniture might be a total loss, your walls are in danger of collapsing or of filling up with mildew and other fungi. Once you have called a disaster clean up crew, you can do a few things to salvage what you can.

The next thing you should do is to open all the doors in the house. While going from room to room check the wiring and be sure that you do not step on any live loose wire as you could be in a dangerous situation. Once you have opened your doors and checked for loose wires or decided to let the disaster relief crew do that for you, you should wait for the disaster crew to arrive.

If you had been warned of flooding and left with your important papers, like house insurance, now is the time to call your insurance agent. On the other hand, if you did not take your insurance card and other papers with you, you will have to wait until the disaster crew arrives.

The process is one of installing industrial hoses into your walls and huge fans to blow dry your walls. Furniture that has been under water is usually taken away as are carpets and drapes. What the disaster crew will also do is to make a list of those items in the house that were damaged beyond repair. That is the list that you will give to your insurance agent when he shows up.

Recovering from a flood means to turn your clean up process to a professional clean up crew if the flooding was more than a foot and your property was under water for more than a week.

If the flooding was like a flash flood and the waters receded quickly, then the clean up will be the same but you will probably do more of the actual cleaning, like removing carpets and drapes. But, I think, that a professional disaster clean up crew is the smartest move to make before you call the insurance.

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