Who can Help with Basement Restoration Services?

When you have water in your basement from a broken pipe or flood, you need home restoration services. When you have a home fire in your basement, you need home restoration services. But, in both situations, who can help? Where do you go to find someone that can restore a basement so it’s livable again? A home restoration company can repair your basement after a disaster.

A home restoration company will come in and remove any damaged or destroyed materials to get the space cleaned up effectively before rebuilding and/or replacing anything that was ruined. When the problem was water damage, the space will be dried up and all water will be removed to prevent future mold growth. Drywall, carpet padding, and anything else that was ruined will be discarded and replaced. When the problem was a fire, burnt items will be pulled out and discarded, smoke clean-up will occur to get odors out of anything that is remaining in the space and then destroyed sections of flooring or walls will be replaced.

It sounds straightforward but sometimes when we talk to people, they ask if they can just hire a handyman to do the work or even just clean it up themselves. And while you certainly can rely on a less experienced person to work on your restoration to save money, the results won’t be as good. And, as a result, the costs may end up being higher in the long run.

When you get water in your basement, mold and mildew growth is always a possibility. It doesn’t even need to be a lot of water for mold to form because mold spores are everywhere, just waiting for the right conditions to grow. Once mold starts growing, it can spread quickly, creating a toxic situation for your family. So, you might save some money trying to clean it up yourself or hiring someone without much experience to work on your basement, but the result might be a need for whole home mold remediation, which is going to be far more costly than if you had just taken care of it correctly the first time. For this reason, we definitely recommend choosing a home restoration company for your water or fire cleanup needs.

But even if you don’t mind taking the gamble on the clean up costing more in the long run, there is one other important element to consider – time! A fire and water clean-up company is going to bring in a whole crew of workers with professional grade cleaning equipment to restore your space. The same job that will take them a couple of days may take a less experienced person a week or more to do. And if you’re thinking that you’ll try to do it all yourself, remember that the same job could take you weeks to do by yourself because you likely won’t have the kind of dedicated time needed to work on it constantly until it’s done. Even if you take time off from your regular job to work on your home, you still won’t have the kind of professional grade equipment that a home restoration company would have, so you won’t be able to work as efficiently. For these reasons, we strongly recommend using a water and fire restoration company to do the work for you.

Give us a call at 1 (800) 501-3046 when you need home restoration work done! We service the greater Chicago area and have over 100 years of combined management experience in the industry.

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