Is Faulty Drainage Causing Flooding in Your Pittsboro Crawlspace?

3/12/2019 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Lee & South Chatham Counties is ready to tackle your water restoration needs.

Damaged Gutters Can Flood Your Pittsboro Crawlspace

Water diversion elements like your gutters and french drain systems around your Pittsboro home can help to keep elements like your basement and crawlspace dry, especially during the rainy seasons. While flooding can prove to be a common threat to residents here from the severe weather that can often pass through the area, ensuring that these diversion elements are intact and functioning properly can help to avoid catastrophes. When your gutter system fails or becomes damaged during a storm, water can pool against the home or find its way into the crawlspace area to allow an array of potential damages.

By the time that homeowners realize there is an issue with their gutter systems, flood damage has already likely occurred to the crawlspace of their Pittsboro home. Our SERVPRO team has a fast response to flood emergencies, offering efficient extraction tools and drying equipment that can help the damage in this crawlspace from reaching the main floor of your home.

We arrive with many machines and tools ideal for fast extraction, such as our portable sump pumps and extraction wands fitted to wet-vacs. In more severe cases, we also have gas-powered trash pumps that can remove the excess water at a faster rate to free up space for drying efforts to come. It is vital to get exposed supports, beams, and the underside of flooring dried to acceptable parameters to prevent secondary effects like mold growth from beginning.

Our contracting division of the team can also help in repairing the damaged gutter system that has allowed the flooding to occur throughout the restoration process. This repair ensures that the appropriate precautionary measures are in place to prevent the same flooding from happening the next severe storm that passes through.

While you might not be able to determine the condition of your gutter system easily and when it can fail, our SERVPRO of Lee & South Chatham Counties rapid response team can arrive quickly to help you deal with the effects of this situation. Give our team a call anytime that you need us at (919) 533-6776.

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