Learn To Avoid Water Damage In Your Property

Apart from earthquakes and fires, only water can have such a devastating impact not only on the life and health in a family's life. This is the main reason why it is so important for property owners to pay attention at leaking pipes, clogged drains or sewage systems that do not drain properly. In almost no time, those few drops that leaked from a pipe in the basement can turn that area in your house into your very own swimming pool and mold can start growing on walls and ceilings.

Water can cause severe damage in your property. To begin with, from the aesthetic point of view, it can damage the painting or wallpaper of the walls. Water causes humidity to make ugly yellowish stains that need to dry out completely before you can cover them with some fresh paint.

Humidity in walls and ceilings can lead to mold. And mold may trigger asthma attacks if you or your children are sensitive to it. Mold not only looks ugly on your walls and ceilings but it is also dangerous for your health.

Fortunately, there are plenty of things you can do to prevent water from causing damage in your house.

One of the most basic ones is doing a regular check up of every drain or pipe in your house. This may be tedious and boring but it is an essential first step to ensuring that there is no leaking pipe or clogged drain. If you see any, you can call a professional plumber to repair it.

Talking about plumbers, they are a second and efficient strategy. You should make it a habit to ask a professional plumber to check your property pipes. They are not only professionally trained to do so but they also have special equipment that can aid them in their task.

It is also really worth it to install a humidity sensor especially in those areas of your house where a pipe may be leaking but either you do not go there very often or is it really difficult to check. A humidity sensor can be placed in basements or attics or even in bedrooms. They are highly sensitive instruments that help you keep moisture under control and prevent water from ruining your flat or house. Moisture sensors are also called hygrometers or humidity analyzers and they are highly sensitive instruments that can immediately let you know when the level of humidity at a certain place is higher than usual.

Eduard Jim written for Moisture Sensors

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Drying Water Damaged Buildings in the Hot Humid Summer

Drying a water damaged building in the humid weather is much different than drying a building in the dry weather. In many areas of the world there is a dry season and a wet season.

In the dry season it is often so dry that the use of dehumidification in a water damage is only necessary to remove excess moisture created by evaporation of moisture from wet building materials and contents of the home. The facility is typically dry in one to three days with minimal use of dehumidification.

When the season changes and we get hot, humid weather everything changes. In humid weather dehumidification is used not only to remove moisture created by evaporation but its used to create an atmosphere conducive to allow evaporation to come to pass. When the air is humid water does not readily evaporate.

How can you tell whether or not the air is conducive to allow evaporation? You can only do this by measuring the relative humidity and temperature of the affected air space and then make the necessary calculations to find the absolute humidity or humidity ratio of the air space. This absolute humidity is measured by the number of grains of water there is in every pound of air in the airspace.

If the air is not dry enough, it is highly unlikely that structural materials like concrete, wood and stone will dry. In any water damage situation the water damage technician should be closely monitoring the moisture content of all structural materials in the facility. Many disaster restoration companies use infrared cameras to help track areas that are affected by moisture.

It is extremely important to deal with disaster restoration companies that are concerned with drying your facility until their meters show that your structure is dry. If the company you are dealing with is not providing you with this information then you are exposing yourself to possibly horrific consequences. Sinister mould grows easily in water damaged buildings. Mould can grow very quickly in improperly remediated buildings.

General contractors and carpet cleaners are often the first people called in to remediate a water damage situation. These type of contractors may or may not be able to properly dry a building. Do your homework and ask your contractors questions to determine whether or not they have the training to be able to dry a building.

Ask them if they have the moisture meters (not sensors) to be able to track the process of drying. Ask them whether or not you get a copy of the records at the end of the job. Ask them whether or not there are hard to dry structural items in your structure. Ask them how they are going to dry them. Ask them what their drying goals are. Ask them whether or not they have water damage remediation training. Ask them when they received their certification. The water damage business has progressed significantly over the past five to ten years. There are dramatic changes in the Standards for water damage and someone without recent upgrades in their education may no longer understand the new findings of the drying industry.

James (Lee) Senter is an IICRC Approved Instructor on the subjects of Water Damage Remediation, Applied Structural Drying and Health and Safety. Mr. Senter teaches at The Center For Disaster Recovery and several industry distributors across Canada. Lee is a well known speaker and writer on the subjects of mould remediation and water damage restoration. Lee owns a company that performs large and small water damage remediations and can be found at http://www.dryit.ca.

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