Don't Let Water Cause Damage To Your Vancouver Attic

6/6/2019 (Permalink)

Our SERVPRO of E. Vancouver / Clark Co. can help you to quickly address water loss incidents in your home with our experience and advanced equipment.

Moisture In Your Attic Can Damage Your Vancouver Home

After heavier winters, roofs of Vancouver homes can become slightly structurally compromised against the weight of substantial snowfall they have supported throughout these harsher months. While this alone can begin to show signs of degradation and wear for spaces like your attic, it can also allow moisture penetration to begin as well. Under these circumstances, saturated materials can begin to erode, and conditions remain ideal for secondary effects like mold and microbial growth to take hold.

While many homes have strong construction to withstand the harsher weather months, it is not easy to avoid water damage. Our SERVPRO professionals respond quickly to water loss emergencies in Vancouver because even moisture penetration can spread harmful effects throughout this area of the property beyond the source. Instead of contending with a small damp area, now our professionals must address an entire moist attic space that threatens to spread even farther to the levels below.

The unnerving truth about this kind of damage is that many homeowners do not even know when this problem has started. Often, these situations have to get bad enough to begin affecting the ceiling of the floors below until a property owner can notice. With attics being such a low traffic area, this moisture and dampness can affect the entirety of this upper area before moving to a place where it can begin to harm the household.

From both the attic to the affected construction materials below, our SERVPRO professionals must address all of the spreading dampness with state-of-the-art drying units like our air movers, our dehumidifiers, and our Injectidry system which can address cavities and crevices.

While oversaturation can often result in a need for replacing damaged construction materials, our contracting specialists must also address the roof damage, which allowed the moisture in the first place. We have an experienced team of general contractors to help.

Our SERVPRO of E. Vancouver / Clark Co. can help you to quickly address water loss incidents in your home with our experience and advanced equipment. Give us a call anytime you need us at (360) 254-0049.

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