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Flood Restoration House Clean-up: Structure, Utilities and Mold
- 2020/04/13
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This is Kenneth Hellevang of an agricultural engineer with the NDSU Extension Service and we're looking now at this the second of the five segments on flooded house cleanup. In this one, we're gonna focus on the structure utilities and look at a Minneapolis mold removal and cleanup in the home typically, the first thing that the city or governmental unit will do is to bring a team in and do an evaluation of the home. They'll look for the structural hazards and they'll look to make sure that the electricity is shut off, that the gas is there aren't any environmental dangers. Then they will post on the home some kind of a placard or sheet that indicates that that home has been inspected. So, this was what you will see as you come back to your flooded home as you come through to that. We look at a flooded damaged home in Minneapolis and found how important it is to do your own evaluation and the first thing that you're going to do is to look at the structure and really look for any signs of movement. Look for alignment any bowing that's occurring cracks that have shown up in the foundation or concrete or walls any good shape. If you see something then you really need to bring in a contractor or somebody else a building inspector that can help you determine what's the structural integrity of that home. The other thing that you'll want to look for is floors and ceiling. If floors that have been flooded for an extended period of time may have delaminated, lost their structural strength and it's important that you use some type of probe or board. To really check that surface for strength as you're coming into the home, also be looking up at the ceiling. If the whole house was flooded portions of the ceiling it may have fallen parts of it and it may still be hanging up there and might fall on you. Here are a couple of pictures that I took that the one on the left is obviously a home that has been moved off of its foundation and this home would be very difficult to reclaim the picture. On the right just shows you, that there will be a lot of kind of surprising things. As you come into your flood and disaster damage home this is a picture showing a mobile, one of these travel trailers motor homes where it floated and during the flood and was actually pushed into the end of this house and so you'll be wanting to lookup high down low everywhere. As you're coming back checking for what the condition of that home and yard is, as you're making your reentry and as I indicated the utility should have shut the electricity off but it's very important for you to verify, that electricity has been shut off before you start work. If we're in a home, where part of it was flooded and part of it wasn't making sure that that the electricity is off in the areas where you will be working and then I strongly encourage you to use a ground fault circuit interrupter on any equipment. Electrical equipment that you're going to be using if you don't have one available. I encourage you really to purchase one shown here in this Center extension cord, it has the ground fault circuit interrupter right into that device and so it's important to use a circuit interrupter because that is what's going to provide you your personal safety. It measures the electricity going out to the piece of equipment coming back from the piece of equipment and if there's a difference, it'll shut that circuit off, immediately and so if you're using shop vacs or anything else in a damp environment, critical that you use a GFI.In that circuit, also make sure that the gas has been shut off to any of the heating appliances that might be in the home. As we're coming into a flooded home, frequently the power will be shut off so we'll need to provide some kind o emergency power standby or emergency generator to provide the electric power that we need for lighting and for tools and equipment, that we're going to be using. One of the major hazards with a standby generator is that it's producing carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other combustion pollutants and we don't want that to be settling into the home where we're working. So make sure that that generator is off to the side. Some distance from the house, so that it has good circulation and ventilation around it. Things that you'll need to have as you're going in lighting will need to be provided and you're going to be doing a lot of cleaning and pairing things apart, so you'll need tools and equipment to do that and there will be a lot of materials to be called out of the structure, so we'll need some type of containers for that garbage. There may not be bathroom facilities, so we need to think about that and then always make sure that we have a first aid kit, mold, and grows very quickly. We post about this flood on Twitter back then and continue to post about all things water damage in Minneapolis at our disaster restoration page.If we have a warm damp environment, sometimes it's very obvious and it is shown on ...