Flood water

FLOOD HELP, FLOODED BASEMENT CLEANUP, FLOOD REPAIR

After flood, clean-up activities often cause hazards to volunteers and workers involved in this effort. There are many potential dangers which can be faced during these activities. For example, water may be getting polluted causing overflows and mixing with foul sewers, exposure of carbon monoxide, electrical hazards, dangers relating to motor vehicles, drowning, fire, cold or heat stress and exposure to some hazardous materials. Workers or volunteers who help people after the flood disasters should be worked with great care and caution. During flood help, they should be provided goggles, hard hats, heavy work gloves, and watertight boots having steel insoles and toes and life jackets so they can help the people being affected by flood properly without being getting hurt themselves.

If you are living in an area which has a constant danger of flood, you should take necessary preventive and safety measures for it. Basements are not desirable at such places, because it will be a great risk to your lie as well as your home. During the flood, your main priority should be to keep you and your family safe. Raise your furniture from the floor by using boxes or bricks. Block the low-level openings like low windows etc. If you have a double storey, move upstairs and take some necessary stuff with you as well for example, medicines, some food etc. If a very intense flood is being forecasted, you are advised to leave your home and move to some safe place. Avoid moving in floodwater, as it may be dangerous and polluted, sewerage may be contaminated in it.

After the flood is over, you should not move back to your home until it is declared safe. After ensuring from the local authority and emergency services that it is safe to go back, than go back to your home. Flood repair is not an easy task. You may get a need of professional team for flood repair. Flood may cause electricity of your home, walls, roof etc. You cannot do all this by your own. But start a little with your own, remove the mud and the other debris, clean all surfaces and maximize the ventilation to promote the rapid drying. While flood repair, incorporate flood resistance and resilience. You may also go to install water resistant doors to reduce the quantity of water which enters in your home. You are also advised to go for water resistant window frames.

Flood basement cleanup defiantly requires a help of professional. Before you go to your basement for the first time after flood, make sure that the electricity of basement id turned off; otherwise it will be a great danger for your life. If there is flood water still standing in your basement, do not walk in this water as it may be polluted. And if you smell natural gas in your basement, contact your gas provider company immediately. Call an electrician to get help while cleaning your basement for flood repair so he can also tell you whether it is safe to move in water of basement or not. If your home has immense water damage, you should leave the home immediately, because it can cause severe health problems, get a help of professional team rather putting your life and heath in danger.