Steps for Drying Drywall After Water Damage in Your Jericho Residence

8/17/2022 (Permalink)

SERVPRO knows no lengths when it comes to water damage in your Jericho home.

Here We Walk You Through The Steps of Your Jericho Water Damage.

A leaking pipe can cause the drywall in your home to get damp. The porous material of the drywall can absorb moisture rapidly and wick it up into the wall. The wetness can spread behind the trim, bleed under baseboards and saturate insulation. Although drywall is not load-bearing, its condition still affects the surrounding structures.

Soggy drywall can turn into a food source for mold colonies. To deal with the water damage in your Jericho residence, you can hire SERVPRO water damage restoration technicians (WRTs). You can take these following steps to prevent the situation from getting worse:

• Stop the source of the leak immediately.
• Remove paintings and wall hangings from the affected walls. If the walls have wallpaper, it may be necessary to remove the paper.
• Check the wall or ceiling insulation. Remove and dry the insulation beginning from the ceiling to the floor. If the insulation is soaked, you can dispose of it.
• Remove baseboards and molding to ensure that the drywall has proper ventilation. This can prevent moisture from getting trapped behind the molding and baseboard.
• Increase circulation of air in your home by opening doors and windows and blowing fans on the damp arrears until the walls are dry.

Spotting damp areas on wall surfaces is easy. However, it is difficult to determine if the drywall below the surface is wet. It is impossible to rely on the eyes alone to identify subsurface damage. Our technicians use thermal imaging cameras to find the moisture problem. If there are only one or two layers of paint on the drywall, it cannot interfere with the dry-out process of the wall surface. However, if a wall has high-gloss enamel, vinyl wallpaper, or more than a single layer of wallboard, it can take longer to dry.

Our SERVPRO technicians have expertise in drying any wall. We can establish an initial environment for satisfactory drying. Our team can manipulate temperature and humidity levels to create optimal drying conditions. For instance, we can place air movers and dehumidifiers near the surface of the walls to dry them before mold sets in.

If the walls do not dry effectively, we can drill holes into the surface to help airflow in the space between the wall studs (cavity). When air flows into the cavity, the rate of evaporation increases, and this expedites drying. Our technicians can also improve drying efforts further by using portable heaters to warm the surface of the walls.

If a water leak has caused your drywall to get damp, SERVPRO of Glen Cove / Jericho can help you dry the affected walls thoroughly. Call us any time at (516) 671-1919 for drying services in Glen Cove, Glen Head, or Oyster Bay. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster.