Mold Could Start To Grow After Your Largo Home Experiences A Flood

12/21/2018 (Permalink)

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Lingering Flood Damages Can Allow Mold Growth In Largo Homes

Many homeowners throughout the Largo area are familiar with the devastation that severe weather systems have caused and continued to cause for the residents here. Since 1930, the area has recorded more than 70 hurricanes that affected homes and businesses. With being such a high risk to the destructive power of these storms, flooding is often a result that impacts entire communities. Without immediate recovery of these situations, you can experience secondary effects like mold growth.

While you might look at storm damage and consider mold damage in your Largo property not to be a problem, there are reasons why you need to take this development seriously. From the effects that it can have on the structural integrity of its material host to the potential health effects that it can have on families and workers helping to rebuild communities after the flooding, there are risks involved from not taking preventative measures and getting the colony removed.

Our SERVPRO professionals can respond quickly in flooding emergencies to help mitigate the situation and work to prevent effects like mold growth from occurring at all. Unfortunately, many homeowners do not call us at this point, and these conditions get allowed to persist for days or weeks on end before a resident concedes that professional restoration is a wise investment to make. By this point, the damp environments are far more likely to have mold to contend with along with the higher volume of flood water.

Unfortunately, mold growth can also occur when homeowners or unprofessional cleaning and restoration crews perform inadequate recovery on a damaged home after flooding and storm damages. With our moisture detection equipment, we can identify the source of the dampness and dry that up while we simultaneously work to remove the present mold colonies.

While hurricanes and severe weather systems might not be something that area residents are unfamiliar with, taking care of the damages should be the responsibility of highly-trained technicians like our SERVPRO of Largo team. Give SERVPRO a call anytime you need us at (727) 586-0060.

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