Keep Your Family Safe From a Flooded Basement

A water loss can have drastic effects to your home and family.  Although these types of disasters can start and look small, catching them early can save you both time and money in the long run.  Not to mention keep your family safe.  Damage from water is one of the leading types of insurance claims and around 14,000  homeowners face this type of emergency.  

Mold grows as soon as 24 hours.

One of the reasons that you want to act fast is a wet area can quickly grow mold.  Mold can grow in as little as 24 hours.  This is especially important to households with young children who are 3 times more likely to becoming asthmatic after being exposed to mold.  It is important to keep your family safe and get water damage dried and repaired quickly.  

If caught quickly many water leaks can be handled on your own.  As mold starts to grow and water sits longer it can become a huge undertaking and calling in the professionals is the right thing to do for your family.  Once you have everything dry it is important to make sure that the mold levels in the rest of your home are safe as well.  A home my look clean and dry, but there may still be mold in the air and walls and can cause serious illness.  

At least 45 million buildings in the US have unhealthy mold levels.  

If you and your family are still not comfortable with the the air quality in your home make sure and get it tested and make sure to get contents like your bedding, clothes, and towels cleaned as well.  Who wants to sleep in bedding that has been exposed to mold?.  There is a solution to that as well.  At Northwest Contents we use the Esporta washing machine can handle 5 times the amount per load and return each item to healthy levels faster.  This allows you to get back to normal and not have to washing multiple loads in your own washing machine or worse spend hours at a laundry mat.  

Clean Mold from Clothes and Bedding.

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