No job is to tough for SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, and Warrenville. Here is one of our team members in a tight crawlspace spraying an antimicrobial to help combat mold growth. 

Paying attention to detail is was SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, and Warrenville does.  This picture shows team members covering up shelves to protect them from further damage during the demolition phase of this particular home.  

This is Steve, the owner of SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, & Warrenville discussing the best possible solution to deal with a COVID cleaning in their nursing home. Many residents had been affected and SERVPRO was there to provide the best solution to clean their place of business.

When a major storm whipped through Cedar Rapids, IA many folks were left without power for days. SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, & Warrenville was able to rely on their vendor relationships and have generators delivered to the customers we helped. Side note: SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, & Warrenville provide window unit air conditioners, as well.

This photo is an example of how SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett, West Chicago, & Warrenville take care of customers by covering their belongings to keep dust and debris from further damaging contents.  

SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett West Chicago, & Warrenville providing great service by staging carpet and bagged debris from the customer's wet basement. We then haul the debris away and dispose of it, so our customers are worry-free.

We have the materials on hand to secure the building and prevent further damage to the structure or the contents until repairs can be made.  We have staff on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We work with insurance companies and take photos before and after the board up process for documentation.  It is vital to maintain the structure of a building so further damage does not occur after storm damage.

When storm damage occurs we are here to help you maintain the safety of your home or business.  We provide board up/ tarping services.  If your home or business is affected by wind damage, broken windows, tree damage, lightening damage, etc give SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City a call.

Call SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City 630-562-9212 for fast and reliable board ups. Securing and protecting Commercial & Residential properties. Effectively board up your home or Business and secure it temporarily until it is fully restored.

Fire is very destructive physically and mentally. The experiences team here at SERVPRO understand that they are not only working to cleanup the physical damage, they are also there to help the homeowner move on from the trauma and look forward to getting back to their normal lives.

SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City has the training, experience, and equipment to handle large commercial water damage emergencies. Whether your emergency occurs in a restaurant, motel, or office building, we will respond quickly to mitigate the damage and manage the restoration project through to its completion.

There are many property issues that business managers may have to grapple with, commercial water damage being one of the worst. Unfortunately, this type of damage can occur in the business setting at any moment. Whether the water damage results from a natural disaster or office mishap, substantial structural deterioration or destruction is often the result.

Water damage can come from many different sources, with varying intensities, danger levels, and reach of damage. Ultimately, many different objects, surfaces, and materials in a home can suffer water damage from the same event, and many homeowners question how a company such as SERVPRO handles a comprehensive water damage cleanup job.

Your home can be the victim of extensive water damage at the most unexpected time and by the smallest means possible. Appliances like refrigerators and ice makers should be regularly checked to ensure all parts are working correctly. If they are not maintained, they can leak, causing a potential for water damage plus mold damage that can ruin your surrounding kitchen floors and walls, in this case the water leaked through the kitchen floor through the basement ceiling causing extensive water damage.

Mold grows in a number of different places. More commonly, it grows in dark, moist areas. It can grow in areas ranging from forests to common house hold rooms. Call SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City for your mold remediation 630-562-9212

An attic space is often used for the placement of the vents to the bathrooms, kitchen and even the dryer vents to be used to discharge outside through the roof. But sometimes those vents do not make it all the way outside leaving moist air to escape into the attic causing mold to grow.

When the moisture buildup in a room is not removed by a venting system or an occasional open window, the result is the mold patches on the ceiling or walls.

SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City requires that our technicians become certified through the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC).  The IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation.

Sometimes we get so busy that caring for our appliances and dishes tend to get thrown on the back burner. With jobs and families and kids, it is normal to forget about keeping everything in the kitchen maintained, but sometimes that can lead to serious damages. We tend to ignore these appliances until something goes drastically wrong.

Most often homeowners aren't aware that a hot water heater is about to fail. Most time you are met with water running out from under your foundation, or garage. While you can't be sure when failure will occur, there are signs that you can keep an eye out for.

Every call and situation is different, even if we have dealt with dozens of similar scenarios. SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City technicians move fast to inspect your home carefully and thoroughly for signs of further damage and begin to create a plan for restorations.

Fire damage can be an awful ordeal to endure. In the case of fire in a home, soot damage and smoke damage can make many personal belongings unusable. Fire in a business can result in significant commercial fire damage. Dealing with fire damage is not something anyone expects ever to happen or wants to have to handle.

Our customers frequently mistake these soot webs, also known as soot tags, for smoke that has attached itself to spider webs that were present prior to a fire. In fact, soot from synthetic/petroleum based sources that have burned, cling to each other like magnets creating chains of soot. These webs are usually found in corners like spider webs.

SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City provides timely response with mitigation services ranging from fire, smoke and soot removal to contents claims inventory and document restoration. These services help ensure your property, belongings and memories are restored to preloss condition when possible.

Limit movement in the home to prevent soot particles from spreading and additional damage from occurring.

Place clean towels or old linens on rugs and high traffic areas and upholstery.

Coat chrome faucets, trim and appliances with petroleum jelly or oil.

Place aluminum foil or wood blocks between furniture legs and wet carpet.

Storms can cause all types of damage to a building. They can cause flooding from rising rivers. They cause water leaks from damaged roofs. They can cause fires from lightning strikes. Tornadoes and high winds can break windows, tear down walls, rip off roofs, and in the worst cases they can level the entire building.

When business owners visualize water damage, they often picture a massive storm wiping out power lines, flooding offices, and shutting down businesses for days at a time. It is true that commercial water damage is often the result of floods and water that stems from weather events and storms.

Cleaning and restoring commercial properties require a unique blend of training, experience, and equipment. SERVPRO of Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City has the resources and expertise to give you excellent results while minimizing the disruption to your clients.

SERVPRO of Streamwood, Bartlett and West Chicago specializes in storm and flood damage restoration.  Our crews are highly trained and we use specialized equipment to restore your property to its pre-storm condition.

The current storm season in Streamwood/ Bartlett/ West Chicago City area has hit our area with massive amounts of rainwater. Despite the millions of gallons of water that have fallen out of the sky, it is the hundreds of gallons from failed appliances leaky pipes and failed sump pumps that cause the majority of damage to homes.

Water extraction is an evolved science that encompasses a professional assessment of the water damage and the creation of a plan of action for recovery. The professionals in this industry are Certified Water Damage Restoration Technicians (WRT) or Certified Mold Technicians (CMT). They utilize established equations and properties of materials, psychrometry (the study of gas-vapor mixtures), an understanding of mold and microbial activity, and water restoration equipment technology to determine the set of industry accepted mitigation protocols to use.

When a big storm hits, the first place in a home to take damage is often the roof. Roofs are flat, brittle surfaces with relatively little avenues for a homeowner to prevent damage. In many cases, whether or not a roof will be damaged in a storm simply comes down to the construction quality of it. 

It can be deceptive to how much damage water really does. It will penetrate into structural cavities, making pockets of trapped saturation. Finding water in these areas can many times only be discovered with moisture meters. Moisture which goes undetected will keep causing damage, and this damage at a minimum will result in unpleasant odors

It is not uncommon to discover mold in homes in the Streamwood/ Bartlett area.  Mold tends to grow in damp or humid spots with poor air circulation such as bathrooms, laundry rooms, or attics and basements.  

Sometimes a black, brown, grey, or white spot isn’t actually mold. Efflorescence, for instance, is a whitish deposit, especially on concrete or rocks. That happens when water permeates the material and leaves behind a deposit of salts. Note, however, that in this case there is water permeation, which may mean there is mold growing where you don’t see it.

When there's been a localized fire, you should have a professional assess the damages for you. This can often help with insurance documentation. Landlords, if you are renting, would also appreciate if you inform them of the fire, and they can see the damage for themselves.

There are many property issues that business managers may have to struggle with, commercial water damage being one of the worst. Unfortunately, this type of damage can occur in the business setting at any moment. Whether the water damage results from a natural disaster or office mishap, substantial structural deterioration or destruction is often the result.