How Water Damage in Neighboring Units Affects Your Apartment in Phoenix

3/15/2019 (Permalink)

Water leaks from neighboring units can affect your apartment.

Water Damage Experts in Phoenix Talk About Testing Equipment

Whenever moisture makes its way into your Phoenix apartment building, there is a possibility your unit can get negatively affected. Many times, your home can suffer from water damage without you even noticing it. Moisture can soak into your unit from other apartments, and you might not even realize it. Wet materials in other parts of the building can cause humidity to rise inside the entire complex. Humidity can cause water damage issues with your contents and building materials even if nothing inside your unit comes into direct contact with moisture.  

If you know there is a plumbing failure inside your building; it is wise to call in the professionals at SERVPRO. Our highly trained team can tell you if there is water damage inside your Phoenix apartment unit. Our technicians are trained to be able to tell if excessive moisture has affected your dwelling or not. We know what places to look and how we need to check for problems. Through the combination of training and experience, we can tell you whether there is an issue inside your home.

Our SERVPRO technicians use their extensive training achieved by their completion of IICRC certification programs to determine where moisture could have entered your apartment unit. We know how water travels through a structure as well as we know how buildings get built so that we have a good idea of how liquid moves through your apartment complex. Once we get a good idea of where moisture could be, we utilize advanced technology to determine the moisture content of your structural components and personal possessions.  

We have at our disposal various types of moisture sensors that test how moisture affected different types of materials got as a result of the water leak. We use these instruments to figure out how wet your contents and building materials got after the disaster, and the standard moisture content of them when they have not been negatively affected by moisture. If you ever hear about a water leak taking place in an apartment unit near yours, then call SERVPRO of Central Phoenix at (602) 386-4268 for fast 24/7 service.

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