When Flooding Damages Carpeting in Manayunk Sanctuaries

11/11/2019 (Permalink)

Flooding can ruin your sanctuary's carpeting and cause the church to be closed during the restoration process.

Carpet Recovery for Manayunk Church Sanctuary After Flooding 

Natural flooding in your Manayunk church welcomes a threat of contamination and exposure to these hazards for your entire staff, congregation, and anyone else scheduled to use the facility. The most substantial monetary investment is usually in the look and function of your sanctuary. When floodwaters breach this centerpiece of your church grounds, professional restoration professionals like ours must work quickly to manage the damage and make it “Like it never even happened.” 

Few sanctuaries have pews and benches that are freestanding anymore, and when posed with flood damage in Manayunk churches, reaching the anchor points for this furniture requires removal of the carpeted areas. With contamination threats to any carpeted area of your building, our SERVPRO team exercises vigilance and removes any exposed areas of this flooring once the extraction work completes. 

Extraction in itself is a vital element to tearing out damaged portions of carpeting, as standing water can be a hindrance to the entire restoration process. With blackwater threats, our self-priming trash pumps are an ideal choice for efficient water removal to an outside drain. We have long lead hoses for these units so they can take the desired path from the sanctuary outside, as you might only have decorative windows in this room of the church. These devices have a wide enough intake and discharge hose to handle many solids and debris distributed through the standing water, which can help to reduce some of the cleaning required for the flooring once drying gets underway. 

Our general contractors have more than 80 years of combined construction industry practice, and they waste no time in eliminating exposed materials like the carpeting and padding underneath. This approach can free up access to the pews as well to help remove them temporarily to restore them while the area gets cleaned and dried appropriately. In many instances, joists and subflooring for the carpet can get preserved if the saturation is not extreme, but this can only happen after thorough disinfection, antimicrobial treatment, and structural assessment. 

No matter when flooding occurs or how damaging it can be to your church, let our SERVPRO of Manayunk and Chestnut Hill team help. You can reach us 24/7 at (215) 482-0800.

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