Water Classifications and Relatability

2/1/2022 (Permalink)

SERVPRO recognizes the inevitable, situations in which water leaking, flooding, dripping are going to happen, and there isn’t any way to avoid it. Keeping that in mind we have dedicated our staff to learning anything and everything there is to know about water. How to effectively and efficiently clean it up
using certain methods and different extraction pumps. If the location has power is another HUGE hurdle
and whether we need our generators for heat. If you have a water loss in January and the HVAC is underwater, or if the power had to be cut for safety concerns, we still need heat to dry and heat needs power! We
also have the crucial aspect of identifying what class of water we’re dealing with. This is important as
different measures like appropriate PPE and preventative measures can be taken. There are three
classes of water and each has safety aspects, health aspects, and reconstruction/cleaning aspects that
need to be identified and labeled correctly.