What Do I Do If My House Is Flooded?

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What do I do if my house is flooded? First thing: get yourself and your family to safety, stay out of any standing water that's anywhere near electricity, and if you can shut the water off safely, do it — then call for help before that water sits and does more damage. I'm Jordan Brush with Prime Cleaning and Restoration right here in Tyler, Texas, and in this episode I'm walking you through the first steps, plain and calm, the way I'd tell a neighbor across the fence. When your floors are soaked and you're standing there not knowing where to start, it's easy to panic. So we slow it down. I'll cover how to keep your family safe, why shutting off the water matters, what to do while you're waiting on help, and the stuff I'd tell you to leave alone until somebody who knows water damage restoration can get eyes on it. Water doesn't wait around, and the sooner you act, the better shot you've got at saving your home. Water damage is the work we do most at Prime, and we aim to do it right and stand behind it. This isn't my business — it's God's business — and we're gonna do our best we can for your home, because all you've really got is your word and your name. If you're dealing with flooding or soaked floors in Tyler or anywhere in East Texas, give us a call at [phone] or find us at primecleaningandrestorationoftyler.com. We'd be proud to work for you. God bless.

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Hey y'all, I'm Jordan Brush with Prime Cleaning and Restoration right here in Tyler, Texas. This isn't really my business, it's God's business, and I'm just doing my best to run it right, treat folks the way they deserve, and set a standard for what quality's supposed to look like. Pull up a chair and let's visit.

So you're asking, what do I do if my house is flooded? First thing, before anything else, is get yourself and your family safe, because water and electricity together is nothing to play with. If there's standing water anywhere near an outlet or a panel, don't go wading into it.

If you can get to your breaker box safely, and I mean safely, go ahead and shut the power off to the affected area. But if you've got to step through water to reach it, leave it alone and call an electrician or the power company. No floor, no couch, nothing in that house is worth your life.

Once folks are safe, your next move is to stop the water if you can. A lot of the time that means finding your main water shutoff and cutting it off, which stops the whole mess from getting worse while you figure out your next step. If it's rain or something outside coming in, you obviously can't shut that off, so you're just trying to keep it from spreading.

Then you want to start getting water out and air moving, gently, if it's safe to do it. Towels, a mop, a wet vac if you've got one, anything to pull standing water off the floor before it soaks deeper into everything. Open some windows, get a fan going, because the longer that moisture sits, the more it wants to turn into mold.

Now here's the part a lot of folks don't think about in the moment. Take pictures, lots of them, before you move or throw anything out, because your insurance is gonna want to see the damage the way it actually happened. Grab photos of the floors, the walls, the furniture, whatever got hit, and do it early.

What I'd tell you not to do is let it sit and hope it dries on its own. Water goes places you can't see, up under your flooring, behind your baseboards, down in the subfloor, and that's where the real trouble starts weeks later. By the time you smell something, the damage has already set in, and that costs you a whole lot more than acting fast ever would.

And I'll be honest with you, every house is different, so I'm not gonna sit here and throw a dollar amount or a timeline at you, because it depends on the job. What I can tell you is the quicker you get help out there, the less you usually end up losing. Don't wait to find out how bad it gets.

This is the kind of work we do the most of, and we don't take it lightly, because when your house floods you're scared and you need somebody who's gonna actually show up and care. We're regular folks, same as you, and we want to work for you, not take advantage of you. If there's ever a problem, you come back to us the right way and we'll make it right, no worries, because that's just part of it.

Listen, all you've really got in this life is your word and your name, and we aim to stand behind ours. If we can help you out, carpet, air ducts, restoration, all of it, give us a call at nine zero three, five nine four, eight zero zero seven, or find us over at prime cleaning and restoration of tyler dot com. We'd be proud to work for you. God bless, and we'll catch you next time.