Water Damage in Your Kitchen

Water Damage In Your Kitchen…

Finding water damage in your kitchen can be devastating, especially

when you take into consideration how much labor is involved when removing kitchen cabinets after water damage strikes! Over the last month our company has handled dozens of water damage restoration claims, mostly due to ice dams and intrusive snow and rain water. We would like to share with you, one way Al’s Absolute Best Restoration saved a home-owner a good chunk of cash when drying their kitchen. Upon initial inspection in this Hebron, CT home we

took notice the water mark depicted below. The drywall above the kitchen cabinets was saturated indicating that we would need to completely remove all the cabinets to properly dry this home, and prevent future mold growth.

In this particualr case, we got one beautiful day reaching almost 50*F! This home also had vinyl siding which comes off and goes back up in a jiffy. Rather than ripping apart the entire kitchen, removing cabinets and a gas stove, our water damage technicians attacked the flooded areas from the out side. This un-lucky family (with young children) would have been with no kitchen for 3 days

We began by  unzipping  the vinyl siding then removing the tyvec, and plywood. The Insulation was wet along with the back of the ply-wood and drywall just as assumed.

Dehumidifier On Platform to Dry Kitchen Wall

Our Water Damage Technicians then built a custom platform to support a commercial dehumidifier, the platform was then enclosed with plastic and monitored for 3 days. This is very important; each material such as the dry wall and ply-wood must be dried to certain industry standards to prevent future mold growth. Al’s Absolute Best Restoration also goes the extra mile by applying an anti-microbial to areas that were once wet, from intrusive water.

After 3 Days the wooden stud’s, and drywall were dry! We had also brought the ply-wood that we had removed back to our shop and dried it in our drying chamber. Everything went back together like a charm. Unfortunately this method only really works out with vinyl siding…wood and aluminum sidings are very different situations and would most likely require a restoration company to remove all cabinets and kitchen fixtures to make re-pairs.
We are proud to say that we truly satisfied this family and went the extra mile to save them a lot of money and chaos.

This is just one more example of why Al’s Absolute Best Restoration and Cleaning services is your best option when choosing a water damage restoration company in the Connecticut area. We come highly recommended, please read our other blogs for more water damage restoration and cleaning information.