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Most of us have folders of important documents like insurance contracts, guarantees, birth and death documents, wills, social security cards, and even identification documents. When a flood strikes your home or business, one of the most tedius tasks can be to recover those soaked documents. We have fast flooded basement cleanup techniques and our team will arrive fast to help you. Floods, freezing pipes, rain or fire surpression and other disasters can leave your documents and papers all wet. Even thou you might think your documents are damaged beyond restoration, if the proper steps are taken quickly enough they can be restored 100%. Our water damage restoration are highly trained in the most recent document freeze drying methods and have access to the newest document drying technology to be able to handle any job from a small home to a large corporation.
In addition, we offer the most up to date mold remediation and water damage restoration services.
From documents or books to magnetic and micrographic media. Document drying is more cost effective to restore rather to replace.
You can reach us at 1-800 222-6815 if you are having any water, sewage, smoke damage cleanup, or toxic mold remediation requests!
Document Drying at the Library
It was a beautiful fall morning in the small south Texas town. The library would close and the staff would have a week end to spend with their families. The sun shone bright, with no cloud in sight. It was one of those mornings when you really wish you could be fishing or working in the flower beds. Instead the staff went about their daily duties.
About eleven in the morning, the sky began to turn a dark, greenish color. In Texas that always means a forceful storm is just over the horizon. The staff stood at the window as the storm clouds gathered. They had no clue that this storm was sending a disaster their way, or that the damage to the library would be paramount.
The wind picked up, whipping through the town and around the buildings that stood in its way. The rain fell in hard, in fierce torrents. To the horror of the library staff, the water was beginning to rise. As the water rose, the books and document drying was not what crossed their minds. Were they safe? Did they need to find shelter?
It is not unusual in Texas for these flash floods to turn into tornados. The dark, greenish color of the sky was a sign that this forceful storm was taking on strength. The water continued to rise; the librarians began to remove books from the lower shelves in hopes of preventing the need for document drying processing. Then, they removed the second shelves books and documents. They were still trying to prevent the water from soaking their valued treasures. Some times, even the document drying did not restore the soaked treasures held for the public’s access.
Not even these steps prevent flood damage in the library. Since the water was rising too fast, for their own safety, they evacuated the building, leaving the outcome to the erratic path of the storm. They tried not to think about the document drying process required to save the assets of the public library. The collections of the community had been put on display in this library. Document drying would not bring them back to their original condition. Their value would plummet, resulting in the loss of history and investment.
There was nothing they could do until the storm had played itself out. That would be the time to survey the damages and to determine if document drying techniques would save any of the water soaked items. But tonight, the safety of their families and themselves were foremost in their minds. Tomorrow was the time for damage control.
The wind screamed and howled all night, the rain did not lose its force. The water continued to rise, and the document drying would have to wait a few more hours, possibly a week. The staff loved that old library, it had been founded over a hundred years ago. It was a town treasure before you included the documents, books, historical collections on display, and the research books that never were allowed to leave the library. Tomorrow, tomorrow, yes, tomorrow would be soon enough. Tonight they could only contemplate their losses.
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