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Clean Up Home Restoration After Flood: Carpet and Curtains
- 2020/04/20
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Carpet is always a tough problem and people spend a lot of money on carpets especially when you walk into a home like this and it isn't a piece left anywhere and isn't totally saturated with floodwater. Many of us in the past, have had to deal with flooded basements and people realize that it is possible to clean up some carpets, but flooded groundwater is very very different. This type of circumstance where you have all of the raw sewage and everything else that's in the floodwater. For the most part in a flooded home like this, the carpets should just be discarded and there should be no attempt to salvage it. One of the situations with drapes, as you almost have to play it by ear and almost every the situation like these, folks have moved they're lifted their drapes up and I don't believe this has actually been in the flood water or in damage and this type of curtain would be something that was cleanable. The washing machine starts with many drapes and would have been ones that had to be dry-cleaned or to remove flood water damage and sometimes the drape will actually get wet but in this circumstance, where it doesn't appear it's wet it just is hanging here and it's got a lot of odor in it. From the odors that are in the room and in the space, but I'm sure it could be cleaned in a washing machine with the procedures. We're recommending cleaning any machine that is a washable fabric and in this room, there's obviously some vertical panels window treatments that have not been in the flood itself. It will often be the case, but as they stay here over the time and it takes to get the insurance adjuster here and before they can actually start to clean up mildew and all of the various other contaminants will start affecting. One of these products and there are many things in a home that will require dry cleaning. Now obviously, if it's flood-soaked and if it's down on the floor and it's soaked with water it will probably ruin and if it's a dry cleanable, only product. However, there are drapes and many drapes that do have to be dry-cleaned and it may just be some water spotting on the lower edge or they still may look relatively clean, but they're starting to be affected by mildew. Eventually, we'll need dry cleaning and it's very very important and everything be dry. Before you take it to the dry cleaner, they cannot put wet products into their machines without totally disrupting the humidity level. So, you do need to get them dried out and then, take them for the dry cleaning process. Dry cleaning is effective at sanitizing and cleaning, so basically, if it's a dry cleanable product and it's not already ruined because it's flooded in water-soaked and that is a good alternative on getting some of these materials cleaned up. Now, we're in the basement and with all of the many things that we're finding down here and upsetting in the heaps here is an upholstered couch of some sort. Now, this particular piece doesn't have any exposed wood, but many times when a family comes back in and they find the favorite old family chair that is an upholstered chair and has nice cherry wood arms and the first question is, is it salvageable something like? This probably they would want to just get rid of, but if this were a keepsake family piece or a very well-made piece of furniture, it might be worth trying to salvage on upholstered furniture. What they need to do, is to get it into a dry space and if it's not raining to the out of doors, they should never leave a wood item sitting in the Sun for a long period of time, but for a short period and that's fine it'll help to dry it out. Then, they need to strip it of all of the upholstery and of all of the stuffings. Anything that is a textile type of fabrications that backing the underneath part and all of this to get rid of it. After it's stripped down to the frame then, send it and dried out the wood and cleaned up with a substance to a wood. Poor a cleaning compound that will clean up the wood and the rust is taken off of any moving parts. Cleaned up and then itcould be sent to have it reupholstered and re cushioned and obviously to go to that kind of trouble and that kind ofexpense it probably needs to be an item and for some reason or another, you really don't want to part with it. Otherwise, for upholstered furniture, it's probably best to discard it.Another item that we're fighting a lot of down here is children's toys and children and never like to part with their toys. It's very tempting to clean those lot of toys and those are hard plastics. At this point, it depends upon what materials they're made from whether they will survive the disinfecting process, but never just hose off a toy and let a child have it back unless you're totally sure that you have disinfected. All of the surfaces, the cracks, and the crevices and there's no question about it. This deep freeze, just like many appliances it is probably best to do something other than try to reuse the same ...