Flood & Water Information Checklist

Following a Flood Precautions:
Flood waters may include trash, chemicals, and sewage. Flood waters can also be a breeding ground for viruses, mold, germs as well as other microorganisms which could stimulate allergic reactions and lead to disease.

When returning to your property or business that is plagued by flood water, you should consider these precautions:
Listen closely for news reports to learn if the community’s water source is risk-free to drink.
Stay clear of staying floodwaters; water can be contaminated. Water can be electrically charged through subterranean or downed power lines. Stay away from downed power lines, and report them to the power company.
Avoid moving water. Parents will need to discourage their kids from playing in creeks and drainage canals.
Be knowledgeable of regions wherever floodwaters have receded. Roads sometimes have weakened and might collapse under the weight of a car.
Stay away from any property if it really is still surrounded by floodwaters.
Make use of extreme care whenever going into structures; there could be undetectable deterioration, especially in foundations.

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Replaced Water Damaged Floor

To replace water damaged flooring

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HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED:
Call me a condo virgin! I had no idea an air conditioner could leak without my knowing it. Mine did, and ruined the cocoa-colored Armstrong Kona Wood engineered interlocking hardwood in my hallway plus the floor in part of my living room and home office. A flooring guy removed it, and you could see where mold was starting to grow.

But because Armstrong no longer makes this flooring, and I haven’t been able to find any, and because no other products have the same interlocking system and dimensions (let alone color), I will have to have ALL 600 square feet of my beautiful living room and dining room floor removed, even though only 80 square feet were ruined. 😦

It will cost a lot to have the rest of the living room and dining room floor removed, and to get new flooring and have that installed. Right now I’m having to be extra careful when walking around in my apartment, as the floors are uneven.

See below for photos and captions.

In the above photo, you can see the good flooring, on the left, and — where it was removed — the white “underlayment” and, in the foreground, the concrete floor that was under the removed underlayment. In the

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