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5/26/2016 (Permalink)

Hardwood Floor Specialty Drying Grosse Pointe, Mi

In a lot of the older homes we have been called to in the Grosse Pointe Area we keep coming across specialty hardwood floor drying situations.  Many of these homes have beautiful newly finished hardwood floors affected in a loss.  Cupped, water damaged wood flooring is one of the most difficult and complicated materials for our industry to dry and requires experience, finesse and good judgement to reverse the damage. At SERVPRO of St. Clair Shores we are trained in the use and application of the most up to date drying techniques in the industry and with our floor drying systems we can help save your wet wood floor. Wood flooring responds slowly to moisture so it’s important to act promptly when you discover, warped, cupped or discolored water damaged wood floors.

RESTORING A WOOD FLOOR

1. Determine if your water damaged floor is salvageable. Solid wood floors that have cupped but are not completely buckled stand the best chance for restoration. Another consideration is that if the floor is severely cupped, the nails that secure the wood to the subfloor may pull loose, causing the floor to squeak or prevent it from completely laying flat after drying. Conditions that may prevent successful restoration.

2. Remove the bulk moisture. Most of the moisture absorbed by a wood floor is not from the top surface but from the bottom. Therefore, if you don’t quickly evacuate the standing or bulk water from flutes on the underside of the flooring, you’re going to have a hard time drying the cupped floor. Wood will continue to slowly absorb water if there’s a source for it to draw from. Not removing the bulk water can cause the floor to continue cupping, even after a drying system is in place.

3. Installing wood floor restoration vacuum panels like in the picture below is your best chance at saving your floor. The floor restoration panels are temporarily installed over the wet wood flooring and a powerful negative pressure is applied. The warm dry air being “pulled” under the wood floor through the flutes in the hardwood (over the permeable layers) is sufficient to create the vapor pressure differential needed to move moisture from the wood floor assembly.

Know who to call when you have a situation our may be unsure of.  We are the leaders in our industry and are always Hero Ready when you need us most!  Call SERVPRO of St. Clair Shores at (586) 741-5050