Need to Dry Out after Storm Damage? Here's What to Do

7/12/2021 (Permalink)

When you’re dealing with storm damage in your home from a hailstorm, lightning, ice storm, or a heavy rain storm, your immediate focus is the resulting damage to your home like a fire, hole in your roof, or a flooded basement. Once that is over, your thoughts will turn to your belongings, including furniture, rugs, and photo albums.

Your photo albums or loose photos that you have in a box or desk drawer contain years and even decades of irreplaceable memories. The potential for water damaged documents can also include family passports; birth or marriage certificates; and treasured books that can’t be easily replaced if at all. How could you recover those if they were soaked? 

We can help thanks to our state of the art drying technology at SERVPRO Danvers / Ipswich. Our expert document and drying restoration team uses innovative vacuum freeze-drying techniques, including the same freeze-drying methods used by the Library of Congress to dry valuable historic documents and books. In fact, our vacuum freeze-drying process is the only method approved by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the General Services Administration (GSA). 

Depending on the type of documents and the level of water damage, we have five options for the restoration of documents:

• Air Drying
• Dehumidification
• Freezer Drying
• Vacuum Freeze Drying
• Vacuum Thermal Drying

We also use gamma irradiation technology to safely and effectively sterilize and remove any bacteria from water damaged belongings or furnishings that were involved in a flood or septic tank backup.

Our customers rave about our drying technologies. One said: “Ross was straightforward, provided clear explanations about what he was assessing, and had fans set up throughout my ground floor that day. As a result all of the walls that showed moisture were dry by the end of the remediation process, thus the only sustained damage was the carpeting.”

Did you find this blog after a storm resulted in water damaged documents? We’re your local Massachusetts document drying experts. Contact us here at SERVPRO of Danvers / Ipswich for help with your storm damage remediation.