It's Tornado Season: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Prevent Your Bellevue Home From Storm Damage

3/22/2022 (Permalink)

Music City has a way of welcoming you warmly into the heart of Tennessee, but the storms it presents are no joke. If you think it's always raining here, you're not that far from the truth. The Volunteer State is the sixth rainiest state in the US, with an average yearly rainfall of 51.6 inches. With spring looming on the horizon, storm damage is further aggravated by the balmy weather of a new season. Suppose you don't take care of storm damage right after it happens. In that case, the effects of water damage, flooding, and mold remediation will start to take root, which is why immediate action is necessary to remedy this. Below, we have listed ways to prevent storm damage to your Bellevue home and what to do if you experience storm damage this spring. 

What Are Some Steps You Can Take To Prevent Storm Damage To Your Bellevue Home? 

• Have a "safe" room to shelter in during a major storm like a tornado or severe winds. These rooms provide a level of protection that other rooms in your Bellevue home may not. If your safe room is underground, make sure it's designed so that water doesn't gather during a thunderstorm. 
• Reinforce garage doors with double-entry doors. Because these doors are prone to falling under high wind pressures, a good course of action involves using girts and strengthening wheel tracks to reinforce garage doors. You can also use longer hinge attachments on the frame and door to help support double-entry doors. 
• If there are any objects outside of the home, make sure to secure those, so you don't endure trash cans, sports equipment, or gutters flying away during intense winds. 

If You DO Experience Storm Damage, What Does The Water Damage Restoration Process Look Like In Bellevue? 

• The first step begins when you call us! Our representative will ask you a series of questions to help us understand the scope of the damage so we know what equipment and resources we need to bring to the scene. 
• The next step involves a water damage assessment which is where we inspect the extent of damage and see how deep the moisture has penetrated all surfaces. By taking these first two steps to understand how potent the storm damage was, we're setting ourselves up for thoroughly mitigating damage "like it never even happened!"
• Once we know where the source of the water damage lies, we remove and extract water using powerful pumps and vacuum units to promptly remove hundreds of thousands of gallons of water from your Bellevue home. This helps prevent further damage and mold damage resulting from excessive moisture. 
• This then begins the drying process, where we gauge room measurements, temperature, and relative humidity to determine how many air movers and dehumidifiers are necessary to dry your home. 
• Before restoration, we sanitize your belongings and remove musty odors caused by water and storm damage. 
• And finally, we begin restoration at this stage, ranging from installing new carpet to full-scale room remodeling in your Bellevue home. 

We hope you don't have to deal with round two of the Great Flood of 2010. Still, if you are dealing with the aftereffects of storm damage and flooding, our professionals at SERVPRO of Belle Meade and West Nashville have the resources, training, and equipment necessary to get the job done efficiently and get your Bellevue home back to its pre-storm condition. Our team knows the greater Nashville area because we are locally owned and operated, so we are nearby, and ready to help our Nashville neighbors should the need arise. Contact us at (615) 242-9391, and let us help you get back to normal so you can welcome a new season uninterrupted. This franchise is independently owned and operated.