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Posted: 31 Jul 2014 11:43 AM PDT Flooded Basement Cleanup – Flood or storm is another problem for our house which is not only making us getting sick but also damage the house. We can see that the storm or the flood will damage our entire home like roof, ceilings, walls, flooring and also our basement. If we are talking about flood in our basement, absolutely we who live in the flood area will get stress with it. It is as the cleaning the basement from flood is not an easy matter. We will need a hard work to clean up the house from the flood. It is because the usage of quickly pumping the water from our basement will not safe as it will damage the major structural of your house. Then how to clean up the basement from flood in safely steps? For the average difficulty, you will need tools and materials like gas powered water pump and gas powered emergency electrical generator, high powered flashlight but avoid use open flame candles, it can be dangerous for your work and house. Then, you will need high waterproof boots or hip waders, dust mask, work gloves and rubber gloves, pry bar and basic hand tools such as a hammer, flat blade and Philips screw drivers and also pipe wrench or channel-lock pliers. But before you clean up your basement from the water, you need to check the exterior of the home. Make sure that there is not major problem with the structure of your house and also make sure that there is no gas leak or downed power lines nearby. And if there is standing water outside the house and the front doorway you better do not enter the home. So, be sure to check whether the water has subsided and gone down or not, check the power lines and report any to the utility, check also whether any gas or fuel leaks or not. If there is, you better report to the utility, check the damage of the structure. Then turn off electrical power and turn of also natural gas, propane or fuel oil valves. To turn off the power, you better standing in a dry location and use wooden stick or broom handle to open the door of the electrical service panel, as possible the door of the electrical service panel maybe wet which possible cause the hazard. Then, push the main breaker switch to the off position. You better do this technique for all the electricity system also to turn off the power of fuse box. After you make sure that there is no dangerous materials which will affect to your safety, it is time to flow of the fresh outside air to the home and basement. So, in this step, you need to open the doors and windows. If you think that it is necessary to use large fan or blower which is generated by emergency generator, you can use this tool to help you clean up the flood and will make the drying process quickly. If you already follow the steps above, it is time to clean up the basement but make sure that you work it with someone in case of emergency of things that we do not expected at all and also you can work on it after you sure that the flood water has receded and no longer standing water outside of the house. So, you can start to remove the water with pump which is powered by gasoline. But, the usage of this tool is only allowed to be used outside the house or basement because it can create exhaust fumes which can lead to the deadly as the carbon monoxide have probability of poisoning. For this process, you need to pump the water at least three feet deep and marked it, you better wait until the next day and check the level of the water as you marked before whether it is gone up or down. You can do this process over and over again until you find that the water is stop rising. So, this is explaining us why we should not pump out the water from our basement at once. After the drained process has successfully done, absolutely it will leave mess in our basement. So, we need to clean it up. First step that we better do is shovel out the mud and the debris that was brought by the water. In this case, you better do not wait until the mud and the debris are dry. You must do it in wet as it will be easier for you to remove it. After that wash the walls with a hose to remove the dirt in the walls, this process also do it when it is still wet. If you find that sewage has entered the basement, so you need sanitize the floors and walls by 1 cup chlorine bleach per gallon of water. Then if you use fuel then the oil stains can be caused by damage oil storage tanks, you can clean it with the aerosol spray or another product which available in the market. The next process of this step is sweep up the absorbed material which left by excess oil which you already apply to the house. And also you can give the room some spray fragrant to return the comfort of your house. Well, it is a bit tiring with such process, but the long process that we already talk about is considering another flood or storm which will come after the first one. It means, if you already pump out the water without consider that another flood will arrive, you will be just tired to do it over and over again, so it will safe your energy for the process like repair the damage structural of your house that cause by the moisture or the pressure of the water. We must also consider that the power of water possible to damage our foundation structural as we know that some flood will keep moving not just standing. Also the mass of the water is enough to make the house damaged. |
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