How to bring an apartment in order after flooding: detailed guide

What to do during flooding and after it, as well as how to avoid problems in the future - we understand our article.

1 during flooding

As soon as you found that your apartment floods, you need to quickly make a few steps.

First actions for a flood

1. Build an apartment through electrical protection, even if it seems that leakage is far from switches, sockets and electrical appliances.
2. Place risers with hot and cold water.
3. Climb to the neighbors and ask them to block the risers.
4. Call dispatch service and draw up an official bay act, even if neighbors recognize their guilt and are ready to compensate for the damage. For this, the act will need an independent assessment, so you will have to invite a specialist.
5. Call your insurance if the apartment is insured.
6. Take a picture of all damage caused, if you can - make a photo of the source of leakage from the neighbors.

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2 repair after flooding

Already after you took care of the stopping of water stream and collected all documents that will help compensate for the damage, you can do clean and restore. At the beginning of the repair you need to appreciate how dangerous residents and furniture are indoors. If the flooding is serious and cannot be connected to electricity, you will have to temporarily move and export furniture, especially wooden. It is also possible to remove wooden doors and stuck parquet.

Wiring check

Even if a short circuit did not occur with the flood, wait 7-10 days, allowing all the materials to dry, and call the electrician to check the entire electrical system at home. Only after inspection by a specialist and receiving confirmation that nothing needs to be changed, electricity can be connected.

Dismantling damaged surfaces

If in the room is a tension vinyl ceiling, you are lucky - he will collect all the water in himself, saving, and protect the room. It will only be left to call the wizards so that it can very carefully drag the water and dried the ceiling with a heat gun. If the water was a bit and everything is done carefully, repair does not have to do.

All other types of ceilings, as well as wall and floor coverings, as a rule, it is necessary to update entirely, as divorces remain on the wallpaper and paint, and the laminate will swell on it under it. Therefore, first of all disassembly.

Dried room

After you get rid of damaged surfaces, set the heater or heat gun in the room. It is necessary to dry the ceiling, walls and floors, otherwise the moisture accumulated in them will lead to the formation of spots and mold.

At the same time, brickwork and concrete easily absorb water, but not badly damaged. And wooden or porous partitions may have to be replaced.

Anti-haircut treatment

After the room is dry, treat all the sections on which water fell, antifungal fungicidal agents. If the flooding was serious, and you feel the smell of dampness in the room, use a potent substance.

If you are sure that the surfaces are sucked well, and the air in the apartment is not raw, you can use sprays.

In any case, make sure that there are no chlorine compounds in the preparation, and also find out whether it is necessary to delete it, and does it change the color of the finishing materials.

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3 Cleaning after a small flood

If damage turned out to be frozen, the electrician confirmed that there is no threat of short circuit, and you are sure that the water damaged only a small plot, you can try to avoid repair.

A small stain on the ceiling or on the wall is easy to clean and paint in two layers of paint. If the stains still appear, you need to clean the plot with a spatula and sandpaper. Then let him dry, spray with antifungal composition and put deep penetrating primer. The finish putty is applied to it and, after drying, primer and paint.

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4 How to reduce harm from flooding in the future

In order not to be a victim or the cause of flooding in the future, as well as minimize the damage, follow several rules.

Recommendations for leakage prevention

• When repair, do not save on the replacement of old pipes, mixers, valves and plumbers.
• Blind the water, leaving for a few days.
• Make a large hatch in the bathroom to access the pipes. If the pipe is broken, you do not have to pick it up for a long time with a flashlight in a narrow hatch or break through the wall.
• Swipe waterproofing when repaired in the bathroom and in the kitchen.
• Prefer electrical towel rails, as the usual often proceed.
• Put sensors reacting to moisture in places where leakage can occur.
• Use the tension ceiling in the bathroom. Perhaps during flooding it will yellow or lose the shape due to hot water, but keeps up to one hundred liters and protect the walls and floor.
• Insure an apartment from flooding.