How Can You Take Water Out of Hardwood Flooring?

5/20/2020 (Permalink)

Don't let your flooring become a disaster from the water damage in your Great Neck home. Call SERVPRO to mitigate your water issue.

Wood planks can absorb water quickly, so our SERVPRO team can recover these materials with effective drying solutions. 

The absorption rates of wood flooring vary on the type of wood used to cover the floors of your Great Neck home and the finish on these surfaces. Certain coatings can make planks less sensitive to absorption, but eventually, water penetrates natural hardwoods.

Removing water in your Great Neck home once it penetrates the surface of wood flooring can exceed the capabilities of drying practices.Homeowners can perform on their own. Our team has multiple strategies for removing moisture trapped in planks, and these include floor mat drying systems and centrifugal air movers.

Why Is Wood So Sensitive to Moisture? 

Cellulose in natural woods absorbs surface moisture. While our SERVPRO team can address this phenomenon in earlier stages, once water chemically bonds with the wood, the damage is often too severe to restore. There are three primary stages of water exposure to wood:

• Water stays on the surface
• Water penetrates wood planks but has not bonded
• Moisture alters the appearance of the wood floors

Saturated wood flooring can be costly to replace, but our SERVPRO of Great Neck / Port Washington team has effective water removal tactics to help. Give us a call at (516) 767-9600.