Why Preventative Maintenance is a Key Part to Stopping Water Damage in Winter Garden

2/24/2019 (Permalink)

The aging windows in your home can cause both water damage and a mold infestation. Contact our team to assess and remediate today.

Some of the Different Causes of Water Damage Affecting a Winter Garden Home

Homeowners in Winter Garden put a significant amount of effort into maintaining their homes, both inside and outside. The condition of a house in the area becomes very obvious when something needs attention, due to the contrast involved between pristine areas and those needing attention.

When your house in Winter Garden develops water damage, it can also create a musty odor. The visible signs and this new smell make it all that more important to start the mitigation process. Preventing such damage is almost always possible, however, and SERVPRO's specialists can help you protect your home, saving your home from unnecessary problems.

Water damage comes from different sources of moisture, elevated humidity, or lost and misplaced water. Correcting the situations that allow these to remain inside your home can stop water damage from ever occurring. Checking water feed lines to appliances and fixing leaky drains and other plumbing fixtures solve many of the most common problems.

Other areas to look at in your home might require the help of a professional. Exhaust fans in your bathroom and over the stove need to work well so they can draw the steam out of your living area. A functioning fan protects one area of your house. The vent in these areas should be part of a continuous network that leads directly to the outside vent, without any breaks or extra lengths or unnecessary turns in the ducts between them. Breaks release moisture and extra bends in the ducts allow moisture to become trapped inside, where it can corrode the duct and cause holes.

Leaky windows that let rain inside your home might go undetected if the water drains into the space between the exterior and the interior surfaces of the wall underneath the window. Situations like this are why we use our infrared thermal imaging devices. Hidden water like this shows a visible change on these cameras that cannot be seen by the naked eye and let us know, even after the rain stops pouring down, where such problems occur.

SERVPRO of West Orange is always here for you when it comes to water damage mitigation and subsequent clean-up of your Oakland, Bay Hill, or Disney World-area home. Call us at (407) 352-1569 for assistance in both prevention and mitigation.

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