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.

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.

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