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    Emergency Water Extraction: Saving Your Gilbert Home

    April 05, 2024 Adam Kriloff Gilbert, AZ Local Guide
    Emergency Water Extraction: Saving Your Gilbert Home

    The Race Against Time

    Whether it's a burst pipe, a broken water heater, or a severe monsoon flood, standing water in your home is an absolute emergency. The longer water sits, the deeper it penetrates into your flooring, baseboards, and drywall.

    What is Professional Water Extraction?

    Using a shop-vac and some towels is not enough to save a flooded home. Professional water extraction utilizes truck-mounted or heavy-duty portable pumps to remove thousands of gallons of water rapidly. This process removes the bulk of the moisture, drastically reducing the overall drying time.

    The Tri Point Services Process

    1. Assessment and Safety: We first ensure the area is electrically safe and identify the source of the water.
    2. Rapid Extraction: Using specialized wands and weighted extraction tools (like the water claw), we pull water not just from the surface of the carpet, but from the padding underneath.
    3. Moisture Mapping: Using infrared cameras and moisture meters, we track exactly how far the water has wicked up into the walls.
    4. Applied Structural Drying: We deploy commercial-grade LGR dehumidifiers and high-velocity air movers to create a vortex of dry air, pulling the remaining bound moisture out of the wood framing and drywall.

    If you experience a flood in Gilbert, do not wait. Call for emergency extraction immediately to preserve your home's structural integrity.

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