Why Does Fast Water Extraction Matter?
When water floods your home, it doesn’t just sit on the surface and wait. The water moves constantly, soaking into materials, flooring, walls, and everything else it touches. Here’s why speed is everything with extracting water.
- Water spreads across a floor in minutes and starts wicking into whatever it touches.
- It seeps under your flooring and into the subfloor, where you can’t see or touch it easily.
- The longer water sits (no matter the amount) the more materials it ruins and the higher your repair costs will end up being.
Removing the water fast is what keeps just a nasty experience from being a full-on renovation.
How We Remove the Water
So, how does the Emergency Plumbing & Water Cleanup of Troy team remove the water from your home post-flood? Here’s how:
We Assess the Water
We figure out how much water there is and where it’s gone. That includes spots that aren’t obvious (under flooring, behind walls, etc.).
We Extract It
We then start extracting water by using commercial-grade equipment (portable extractors, submersible pumps, truck-mounted extraction units, carpet wands, etc.) which get water out much faster and more efficiently than a mop ever could.
We Move to Drying
Extracting gets the immediate standing water out, but the materials in your home are still wet. We start structural drying in the same visit so we can pull the remaining moisture out after we fix the plumbing problem.
Where Extraction Fits in the Job
Water extraction is just one stage of the water emergency, and we handle all the other stages around it, too. First, we’ll stop the plumbing failure that caused the flood in the first place. We then extract the standing water, followed by the drying. That means that the emergency situation gets handled by one talented crew rather than a hodgepodge of other teams over the Miami Valley. With us, you only need one call.
Plus, you’ll get a clean handoff to Complete Detail Cleaning & Restoration if you need anything beyond it.
Flooded Basements Are Our Specialty
If you have a finished basement (a lot of homes in Troy and the Miami Valley do), that’s usually where water ends up; basement flooding’s easily one of the most common calls we get. Whether from a sump pump failure or a burst pipe, we know exactly how to get water out of your home fast!
Serving Troy and the Miami Valley
We’re based here in Troy right on the banks of the Great Miami River, but we respond across the surrounding communities. That includes Piqua, Tipp City, Sidney, Englewood, and Huber Heights. With standing water, response times are everything, so you need a crew that can show up quickly. Being local is how we keep that response time as short as humanly possible.
Now is the time to act. The faster the water’s out, the more of your home we can save. Give us a call and we’ll get a crew out to you ASAP.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can’t I just clean up the water myself?
You can get the surface water, sure, but a mop or a shop vac simply won’t reach what’s actually soaked into your subfloor and walls. The water that’s trapped in there is what’s causing all the issues down the line, namely mold and warping. Commercial extraction from the pros means that much more water pulls out much faster
What happens after the water’s extracted?
Even after the standing water’s gone, materials will still be wet. That’s why our team starts structural drying in the same visit. That removes any moisture that’s left behind.
Do you handle the plumbing problem that caused it too?
Yes, first and foremost, we’ll tackle whatever plumbing failure landed you in this mess in the first place. We then extract the water and start the structural drying all in one response. That means you won’t have to stress about coordinating with a few different companies when you’re just trying to get everything done and back to normal.