Can my belongings survive a water damage?

1/19/2017 (Permalink)

Water damage

House floods on Long Island can happen from natural environmental or weather conditions or mechanical failure - but either way, your stuff ends up soaked.  What happens next?

At SERVPRO of Great Neck/Port Washington, we know you have irreplaceable mementos and family pieces as well as furnishings, photos and important documents that you need to keep and maintain.  If you haven't protected them by storing in watertight plastic containers, we will do our best to salvage and restore your contents. 

With a lot of clear and grey water damage a lot of your contents might be salvageable.  

If bio hazard contamination is in play - be it from medical waste issues, crime scenes, infectious disease or raw sewage exposure it is generally necessary for us to rapidly discard those items for your safety - especially if they are paper, fabric or of other porous material that cannot be adequately cleaned and sterilized.

Small numbers of documents that are needed but damaged are best captured by photo then discarded.  we do have the ability to dry large amounts of clear and grey water damaged documents, books and photos in huge drying chambers through our corporate facility.  They will appear water damaged, no longer perfect - but will be dry.