Bursting Pipes are no match for Quick Respondents

10/2/2019 (Permalink)

No job is too big for SERVPRO.

A large manufacturing company had a pipe burst above the acoustic tiled ceiling in a conference room. The water leaked across 5000 + sqft of the building. Impacting the carpet and drywall in the main office area, the hallways, bathrooms, and even the elevator shafts. The manufacturer decided to call in our franchise of SERVPRO to help them get their plant back into order.

We met with plant managers, operations managers, and office managers to formulate a action plan. Specific documentation was done immediately of the damage to show the insurance company as we could not wait for them to show up before we began work. After documentation of a space  was completed SERVPRO got to work to mitigate the water damage.

We started first by using a weighted extraction method on the carpeted areas. Rubber cove was removed from areas with wet drywall, production staff then drilled coring holes in the drywall below the top of the rubber cove for air flow to get into during the drying process.

After initial stabilization and mitigation was performed SERVPRO started to set a very large number of drying equipment.

While our production staff was performing that work the production manager and mitigation manager continued documentation and organization of sub-contractors needed for supplemental power, plumbers for plumbing repairs, and the clearing and inspections of elevator shafts.

After all physical mitigation work was done the drying equipment pulled out all the excess moister in the structure. After that was completed the structure was put back together to look better then it started pre-pipe burst.