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What You Should Know About Water Damage Restoration, Saving
Your Property and Protecting Your Health

With cutting-edge technology and certified technicians, Dry Pro provides water damage restoration and mold control services, protecting not only your home and property… but also you and your family’s health for years to come.

Water damage can trigger many serious problems that can affect an entire building’s structure, destroy personal property and generate serious health risks to all occupants (even your pets). To effectively restore your property and protect your health, a seasoned, professional restoration expert must manage your restoration project.

The water damage and drying company you hire must immediately handle several important tasks:

• preventing bacteria from spreading
• suppressing mold growth
• stop secondary damage
• rescue your structure and its valuable contents

A constant danger occurs after water flows down the inside of wall cavities. Many times, standing water will create creeping moisture on the walls. Unless water stains appear, this moisture could go undetected until chronic mold and odor problems occur. This also indicates water damage has already attacked the core structure of your home or property.

Mold Effects Your Health, Your Family’s Well-being and Your Entire Home

Within Minutes: Water contamination spreads to unaffected areas; stains released from furniture (especially antique), discolor carpet permanently; moisture-sensitive surfaces on furniture turn white; paper goods are ruined due to moisture absorption and swelling; pre-existing (animal) odor becomes very noticeable.
Within Hours: Furniture in direct contact with water delaminates, swells, legs begin to split, drawers bind, Sheetrock swells and disintegrates; wallpaper adhesives release; bacterial odor (souring) becomes apparent.
Within days: Mildew appears (hyphae), along with characteristic “musty” odor; moisture-sensitive internal components in pianos and organs begin to swell in the presence of condensed moisture; metal surfaces begin to rust; door and window casings swell and distort or delaminate.
Within weeks: Mildew associated with prolonged dampness sinks roots (mycelium) into organic materials (jute backings, paper coverings on sheetrock, paneling, wood, etc.); wholesale damage to structure and contents occurs.

There are thousands of documented cases of serious health effects and physical problems resulting from indoor exposure to mold and mold spores (sometimes referred to as sick building syndrome).

Serious Mold related illnesses can result from high level / short-term exposures and lower level / long-term exposures. The most common health effects or symptoms reported from exposure to indoor mold environments are a chronic clearing of the throat, runny nose, eye irritation, cough, congestion, and aggravation of asthma, plus allergic reactions similar to pet allergies. Weakness, headache, and fatigue are constant irritants.

Some people are at grave risk to the negative health effects of mold contamination.

• Infants
• Children
• Elderly – especially with compromised health
• Those with severe allergies
• Anyone with existing respiratory problems
• Pregnant women in any term of their pregnancy
• Immune-compromised individuals (those with cancer, AIDS, and other illnesses)
• Especially people recovering from surgery

When high levels of airborne toxic mold spores are inhaled deep into the lungs they can enter the bloodstream and affect the immune system, nervous system, liver, kidneys, blood and cause brain damage.

This is one of the most important reasons you must seek a professional equipped with the state-of-art instruments to detect and find wet areas before the drying process begins.

Successful water damage restoration of your home is more than “once over” drying of wet carpets. All sources of mold and water damage must be identified, eliminated and restoration completed.

There’s a host of problems created by sewage backups or other “black water” pollution. Here’s what happens: Huge amounts of bacteria can enter your interior environment and expose you to many serious health risks… including fatal damage to liver, kidneys and blood and acute infections of skin or eyes.

Raw sewage is mainly gray or black water. It usually contains the organic waste and wastewater produced by household and industrial sources. Sewage typically contains everything from soap to solid waste, human excrement, industrial effluent, and debris. It is discharged by drains and sewer lines…and can rapidly flood a house.  In fact, the bacteria and mold penetrating a structure could stay active for years if left untreated.

Dry Pro’s advanced water removal and drying methods effectively rid your property of all traces of water and sewage… making your home and property clean, sanitary and safe for occupancy again.