#drying out water damage

[krausrestoration]

How to Protect Your Home from Future Water Damage

One of the most prevalent and expensive issues that homeowners deal with is water damage. Whether it’s caused by heavy rain, plumbing issues, or faulty appliances, the effects can be extensive and expensive to fix. The good news is that there are several steps you can take to safeguard your home from future water damage. This guide will walk you through practical tips and solutions to keep your property safe, while also discussing the importance of drying out water damage quickly to prevent further issues.

1. Inspect Your Roof Regularly

The first line of defence against water damage in your house is your roof. A damaged or leaking roof can allow water to seep into your home, causing structural problems and mold growth.

Check for Missing or Damaged Shingles:

Inspect your roof at least twice a year and after heavy storms.

To stop leaks, replace broken or missing shingles as soon as possible.

Clean Your Gutters and Downspouts:

Water may overflow and collect close to your foundation due to clogged gutters.Clean them regularly to ensure proper drainage.

Extend downspouts at least 6 feet away from your home to direct water away from the foundation.

2. Seal Windows and Doors

When it rains a lot, water frequently enters through windows and doors.

Inspect and Reseal:

Check for cracks, gaps, or worn-out caulking around windows and doors.

Use waterproof sealant to fix any issues and prevent leaks.

Install Weatherstripping:

Add weatherstripping around doors and windows to keep water out and improve energy efficiency.

3. Maintain Your Plumbing System

Regular maintenance can help you catch issues before they become major problems.

Inspect Pipes and Fixtures:

Check under sinks, around toilets, and near appliances for signs of leaks or corrosion.

Replace worn-out hoses on washing machines and dishwashers.

Install a Leak Detection System:

Smart leak detectors can alert you to water leaks before they cause significant damage.

Consider installing an automatic shut-off valve that cuts off the water supply in case of a major leak.

4. Control Humidity Levels

Excess moisture in the air can lead to condensation, which contributes to water damage and mold growth.

Use Dehumidifiers:

Place dehumidifiers in damp areas like basements and bathrooms to keep humidity levels below 50%.

Improve Ventilation:

To cut down on moisture, install exhaust fans in kitchens and bathrooms.

On dry days, open your windows to let in some fresh air.

Address Condensation:

Wipe down windows, walls, and other surfaces where condensation forms, and identify the source of excess moisture.

5. Protect Your Basement

Because basements are located below ground level, they are especially susceptible to water damage. Taking preventive measures can help keep your basement dry.

Install a Sump Pump:

A sump pump can help remove water that collects in your basement during heavy rains or flooding.

Test your sump pump regularly and have a backup battery in case of power outages.

Apply Waterproof Coatings:

Use waterproof paint or sealant on basement walls and floors to prevent water seepage.

Ensure Proper Drainage:

Your home should be situated on a slope that slopes away from the foundation.

Repair any cracks in your foundation that could allow water to enter.

6. Be Prepared for Storms

Flooding, high winds, and a lot of rain are all possible during storms. Being prepared can help you minimize water damage during extreme weather.

Install Flood Barriers:

Use sandbags or flood barriers to protect your home during heavy rain or flooding.

Trim Trees and Shrubs:

Keep trees and shrubs around your home trimmed to prevent branches from damaging your roof or siding during storms.

Create an Emergency Plan:

Have a plan in place for dealing with water damage, including contact information for local professionals who specialize in drying out water damage.

7. Act Quickly After Water Damage

If your home does experience water damage, taking quick action is crucial to minimize the impact.

Remove Standing Water:

Use a wet/dry vacuum or mop to remove standing water as soon as possible.

Dry Out Water Damage Promptly:

Use fans, dehumidifiers, and ventilation to dry out affected areas quickly. Mold can begin to grow within 24-48 hours, so don’t delay.

Professional services specializing in drying out water damage can ensure thorough drying and prevent further issues.

Sanitize and Repair:

Clean and disinfect affected surfaces to prevent bacteria and mold growth.

Repair or replace damaged materials, such as drywall or carpeting, to restore your home.

8. Invest in Home Improvements

Upgrading certain aspects of your home can provide long-term protection against water damage.

Install Water-Resistant Flooring:

Replace carpet or wood in vulnerable areas with water-resistant materials like tile or vinyl.

Upgrade Appliances:

Opt for modern appliances with built-in leak detection features.

Add Backup Power:

Install a generator to keep sump pumps and other critical systems running during power outages.

9. Regularly Monitor Your Home

Consistent monitoring and maintenance can help you catch potential issues early.

Inspect Your Home Regularly:

Walk through your home periodically to look for signs of water damage, such as stains, peeling paint, or a musty smell.

Schedule Professional Inspections:

Hire professionals to inspect your roof, plumbing, and foundation every few years.

Final Thoughts

Water damage can be devastating, but with the right precautions, you can significantly reduce the risk to your home. From maintaining your roof and plumbing to controlling humidity and acting quickly after an incident, these steps can help keep your property safe. Remember, if you’re dealing with water damage, drying out water damage promptly is essential to avoid long-term problems like mold and structural issues. By staying proactive, you can protect your home and ensure it remains a safe and comfortable place for years to come.

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[bowenoke]

edit: btw it is not safe to wear contacts in the shower! the option is included for accuracy, but please consider throwing on an old pair of glasses or just going blind into that wet box instead.

[nightmaretour]

Packing for a two day trip for the nearest large pride festival is like an able bodied person packing for a week long holiday. There is no such thing as travelling light when you're physically disabled

[thesporkidentity]

so you remember that book-by-mail program my library is instituting that i was super excited about (still am)? i got my first book today but uh...the canvas mail bags they're using...aren't waterproofed. they dumped it on my welcome mat in the middle of a rainstorm...

they...did not think this entirely through...

[coridallasmultipass]

It took me, ugh, MONTHS (2), to get to cleaning the two shrimp tanks I have... I had IRL issues going on that would have made it extremely difficult to do a water change especially while injured, and I just had to keep putting it off. It's just shrimp, so it wasn't like, the worst situation, especially since I have established plants and the tanks are a couple years old. There was just a lot of algae build-up on the glass, and, well... Let me just say it was not contributing to my mental health and well-being while the tanks were in that state.

I tested the water before I started cleaning and the parameters were fine (like, I could have left the tanks even longer if I would be okay with selling my soul to the Algae Collective), and the plants and shrimp look fine, too (I mean, I've obviously been keeping an eye on the tanks bc I sit right next to them). Actually, I'd wager to say that the plants are looking really great (the lilies haven't died off [yet? This is the longest period of time I've seen them stay... foliage... fol... foliated? Idk.] and the cryptocoryne in the 10gal is fucking huge and needs to be rearranged, just not right now). That fucking algae was a motherfucker to get off the 10gal (it's a plastic tank and I think that makes the algae grip harder than the glass 5gal).

[Also, fyi, depending on the tank's needs and stability, recommended water changes are a small one every week or every other week. My parameters don't seem to do anything dramatic, so I usually aim for a 20-30% water change every third week (just depends on how much vacuuming needs to be done and how cooperative the shrimp are with moving aside). So 2 months is still a lot. I still did the normal 30% ish amount, since doing more will risk the shrimp's well-being if there's a sudden change in everything, and my water parameters indicated a change was unnecessary - but I don't test for more than the minimum freshwater tests, so there could be a buildup of some mineral I'm not testing for, which is why the change IS actually necessary regardless of what my test kit says - because these tanks were evaporating a lot in summer, it condenses the minerals added with each water addition, even tho I usually top up with R.O. water.]

My back is fucking killing me lol. It has been killing me since spring when it 'went out' for the first time, and I'm not getting any relief, it sucks. But this had to be done.

The 5gal is looking pretty cloudy still, since the filter was super gunked up and I accidentally spilled gunk back in, so I may need to retest the 5gal parameters tomorrow just to make sure I don't have to do another water change, but it'll probably be fine, right? Shrimp love mulm and detritus. I did give both tanks a big ole algae tab for their trouble, tho. (I need a fuckening dish for the big tank. I really wanna clean off that white quartz rock again, but being white means it's an algae magnet, and it's just gonna go green again after a month or two.)

Anyway, shrimp tax:

I lov thees widdle oange bebies.

Wish I could take better pictures rn, but I am. Like. Dying. My recommendation: never live in an A-frame style room if you have the option. The wall above my tanks is slanted, and NOT fun for my back to bend underneath the wall for maintenance. (My only flat wall in the room is for my TV/PC.) Also, treat your back nicely, in general. I unfortunately have not had the option to treat my back nicely since spring (fall now), because 'when it rains it pours,' and heavy shit that needs to be moved will not move itself. Once I get a few more things in my room in order, I will hopefully be done with the IRL chaos, bc I have Halloween socks to knit, and I'm not putting that off for another year. (I'm still mad that I couldn't make the ones I planned last year. And I found more Halloween yarn I forgot I bought, so I'm gonna try to make multiple socks.) And I just really need to fucking chill and knit and stop having panic attacks and meltdowns.

[sirpeppersto]

my weed pen blinking red last night and not pulling at all, now being perfectly fine today without me charging it

[narcan-necromancer]

Cheapskate tip to Uber eats, Postmates etc- claim that your food was stale or that's something was missing from your order. You will usually have to post a photo, I'm sure you can figure that out. If you don't immediately get an email with a confirmation of your refund, contact support and if you didn't already get a full refund you will get a full refund if you request a refund receipt via email. Don't do this to locally owned restaurants, keep it to chains.

Cheapskate Amazon tip - if you order food on Amazon, they cannot accept returns. For instance, I used to order two 24 packs of monster every few weeks. If you claim that one or both were damaged, they will refund you. If you ordered them at the same time, they will refund both of them. This also applies to EBT purchases. EBT purchases that are refunded will automatically be refunded to the EBT card. They can also refund cosmetics, although I'm not sure if that applies to expensive cosmetics like tatcha.

Thank you. This has been Kira's how to be a cheap and broke bitch show.

[penisbutterjellytime]

Became disappointed I wasn't living up to butch standards by always having a tool / swiss army knife / screwdriver within the vicinity but made up for it for it by fixing it with a butter knife

gender dysphoria swiftly kicked by my innovative-ness

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[coffeeworldsasaki]

I live in a state of constant terror about watering my plants uh

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[homunculus-argument]

ADHD grooming tip: if you want to paint your nails, do them one at a time. You're way more likely to manage to watch out for one nail than be careful of both of your whole hands, and even though it takes 10 times longer to do it this way, the odds of failure and damage are much lower.

Like if you're going to be stuck on your phone anyway, you can put the nail polish next to you, paint just one nail, set a phone timer to 5 minutes, keep scrolling through fun nonsense, get startled by the timer you forgot you set, remember the polish, paint a second nail, and then keep repeating that until all nails are done. And by the time you're finished with your very last nail, the first nail you painted will be 100% impact dry, and you can do the second layer, repeating the whole process again.

By the time you're done, you've got your nails all done and pretty, completely dry on one hand and almost dry on the other. Then it's time for you to get up, have a glass of water, go to the bathroom and probably eat something, you've been on that phone for almost two hours.

[puppyypawsss]

Apparently I got water in my iPads charging port...which most certainly did not...but like. Go off I guess

[shanastoryteller]

i know supernatural is the show of missed opportunities but man. the trials really get to me - what a perfect way to reboot and reset this show that you're artificially extending for ratings. it could have been really, really good, actually

so the trials of god is a way for someone to gain the ability to seal the gates of hell and the gates of heaven

they have the translation for hell, they know that slamming the gates of hell shut means calling all the demons back home and locking the key. it's logical, then, to for them to believe the same is true of the one for heaven - that it calls all the angels back home and locks them away where they can't do any more damage

peace, for the people of earth, outside of the influence of angels and demons. that's got to be worth it, right?

so while sam is completing the hell trials, they get the angel tablet, kevin gets translating, to figure out the angel trials. or maybe metatron helps nudge them along to figuring it out, since him being the big bad here isn't really relevant and they are in a bit of time crunch

canon doesn't tell us what the heaven trials are, except that the first one involves a ritual using the heart of a nephilim. they make it sound like they're carving it from their chest, but what i would do is

have a nephilim offer you their heart from their chest (gain their loyalty in a binding ceremony)

create grace from freshwater (there is no rain that falls anywhere on earth that is safe to drink and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters)

find a human soul to guide you to heaven (babel fell but the stairway was built and those with wings have no need of stairs)

so sam is in the midst of the hell trials when dean sort of accidentally on purpose completes the first heaven trial and then the brothers are on parallel train tracks heading in the opposite direction

sam works to close the gates of hell

dean works to close the gates of heaven

demons and angels both working to stop them

sam completes the trials. he restores crowley's humanity and he dies and the gates of hell are closed

but that's not the end

metatron says they can close the gates if they're willing to pay the price. canon says the price is sam's death, but frankly that doesn't make any sense. what's the death of one human against the horrors of hell? and remember, metatron doesn't know the winchesters. maybe another angel would make this comment, knowing how the winchesters have weighed the safety of the world against their brother and left the world out to dry, would think this a price worth warning for. but metatron wouldn't bother, wouldn't even think of it, if that was the only price

the gates of hell close and malevolent spirits explode across the globe, evil spirits and angry ghosts causing death and destruction everywhere

hell serves a function and now the gates are closed and every evil human soul is forced to stay on earth, causing as much destruction as it can

that's the price for closing the gates of hell

except. except. aren't the hell trials interesting?

kill a hellhound. rescue an innocent soul and return it to heaven. purify a demon and restore their humanity.

the trials are not to prove if someone is worthy of closing the gates of hell. it's to prove they're capable of setting hell to rights

the trials are if things got too out of hand, if things were taken too far, and hell had to be put back in it's place. sam dies and ends up exactly where azazel wanted him - ruler of hell. all the demons and souls are trapped with him and what he has to do, while he has them all there, while they can't escape, is exactly what he did to get there

he kills the hellhounds, leaving only those meant to patrol hell. he releases every innocent soul bound there. he purifies the demons one by one, who he either releases as innocent souls or who to pledge to do their job as demons of hell - punishing evil, containing evil - in penance for what they did before (how do i even begin to make up for what i've done, crowley had asked, and this is the answer)

meanwhile, dean, heartbroken, completes the heaven trials and dies

and the gates of heaven slam shut and all the angels are stripped of their grace and expelled from heaven and dean finds himself in charge of an empty heaven

the trials are for when things have gone too far and heaven must be rebuilt, after all

good souls pile up, no one who dies able to truly leave earth, and given enough time they become twisted things that must be hunted along with the spirits of evil men and women who cause chaos from their last breath

dean has work to do. he has one angel - the nephilim whose loyalty he earned in the first trial - and this is what he has to do. he recruits more, to replace the ranks, he creates grace and hands it out judiciously. he sends them to guide the good souls home, using the stairway that the former angels wouldn't be able to use even if they wanted to, and each good act and deed earns them a little more grace. former angels throw themselves into the fight for humans, because they know it's the only way that dean will return their grace to them and lift them back into heaven

and in fighting for them, in living like them, they learn to love these creations of their father that they'd despised. they see what he saw and the thought of destroying this place in a civil war becomes unthinkable to them. they are once more the angels god intended them to be

in this, dean and sam fulfill their destiny as lucifer and michael's vessels. not in letting them in, but in pushing them out, in doing the work each was intended for but refused

only when there is only evil human souls being punished and caged, only once the demons are once more working to run hell and earn their release to heaven, does sam reopen the gates of hell

only when there's a full choir of angels once more, committed to their cause, only once there are souls working with reapers as it once always was, does dean reopen the gates of heaven

they're called the god trials for a reason. above and below, sam and dean act as god, putting things back in their intended places

they could stay. they should stay. keeping house, making sure it all goes smoothly, eternally keeping earth safe from angels and demons both

they're called the god trials for a reason. not even god could resist the paradise inbetween that he'd created

dean doesn't know if sam is going to return to earth. he might stay in hell, and if dean becomes human once more, then what's the point? he'll live and die a human, get stuck in heaven, and be forever separated from the brother he loves

sam doesn't know if dean is going to return to earth. he migh not be able to, might be stuck doing his work - sam assumes if the hell trials did this to him, then the heaven trials did the same to dean, and the idea that dean could have failed the heaven trials after he dies doesn't even cross mind. if he returns and dean's not there then he loses it all, he never again gets to see the brother he loves

but when, exactly, haven't they been willing to risk everything for each other?

dean falls as lucifer fell, throwing himself towards earth

sam rises as michael did after the fall, pulling himself towards earth the same way michael once pulled himself to the top of heaven

what's the use of being a god without his brother, after all?

dean and sam are reunited on earth, human once more

no more angels, no more demons, heaven and hell functioning once more as they should. we're back to basics, a clean slate, all of the rest remade and set aside by their own hands (it's literal and a metaphor, the way the show could have remade itself with the trials, after setting aside kripke's plan while at the same time recognizing that the design of it - two brothers who love each other going across america and fighting evil - is the thing that made it worth watching to begin with) and now it's them again, brothers forged in blood and sacrifice and love, and a new appreciation for the humanity they gave up and returned to

and then we get my beloved monster of the week with no stupid too high stakes, convoluted bullshit involved, beyond the occasional angel who dean refused to reinstate and demon tracking down miscreant souls and, every once in a while, a person or creature or something in between squinting at them and going - weren't you two gods?

nah, they say, all corn fed grins and the dimples their momma gave them, we're brothers