DIY Water Damage Restoration Of Your Furniture |
By :
Gayelord Nash
Submitted:
2008-10-26 12:30:00 Number of Times Read: 8
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Now that you've totally cleaned up your home from excessive flood water, and it is now safe to venture inside the house, it is time to assess the damage done to you furniture and figure out how perform water damage restoration on your furniture.
Furniture can be found everywhere around the house, from the patio to the bedroom. Clearly, you need not worry about patio furniture for it is made to withstand the elements. So I doubt it if these is any amount of water can cause damage to patio furniture, thus no need to talk about water damage restoration to material which is built to be waterproof!
The most likely furniture to suffer the most damage is the stored furniture in the basement, garage, or any wooden furniture sitting directly low at the floors of the house. Water causes irreparable damage to wood if not treated right away, not to mention to the fabric or foam covering and cushioning your furniture. Water damage restoration to wooden furniture should start by completely drying out the piece of furniture and removing any moisture from the wood. This can be done using a blow dryer if the piece of furniture is small enough. Otherwise, you need a large industrial blower. You can always place the wooden furniture outside to dry in the sun, but you risk damage to paint/polish or wood lacquer.
Damaged paint or lacquer is not your biggest problem, but rather the ruining of the wood shape itself. When wood is soaked in water for an extended period of time, it tends to absorb significant amounts of water, acting like a sponge in essence. The bad news is, with all of this water taken in, the piece of wood expands in way which usually damages the grains forming this piece of wood. So when it dries out, the piece of wood becomes deformed. This is an unfortunate water damage restoration failures. You need a professional carpenter to fix the wood problem in your furniture. So if you own antiques, then you're out of luck as this will certainly affect the value of your pieces, and water damage restoration to antiques can be just as expensive as the piece itself in this situation
The good news is, no matter what the water damage has caused to the cushioning of your furniture, water damage restoration can be as simple as taking out the fabric casing of your couches, love seats, pillows, and chairs; placing them in a washing machine; and doing away with whatever stains or dirt which may have soiled the fabric.
In many occasions when it comes to furniture water damage restoration, you can either live whatever damage has been caused, or you decide to call the salvage army! In both cases, the damage here is something which you can live with. Damage to furniture is highly predictable, unlike the damage to a house or another structure. With that in mind, you can use your common sense to take precautionary measures to do preventive work prior to the actual damage. For example, if it starts raining non-stop, and you have other reasons to predict a flood in your region, start removing valuables and place them up high where the water cannot reach them. Remove expensive rugs, but do not store them in the basement, for obvious reasons.
Clearly, you don't have storing space to hide away all of your furniture, so start by only the most expensive of furniture, like wooden antiques and such. Wrap them safely with a plastic wrap on the chance of having to move them outside the house, while it is raining. Larger pieces of furniture which cannot be moved easily, try to elevate them above the floor level by placing them on building blocks. |
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