Calm Your Fears: SERVPRO Techs Can Save Your Damaged Documents
3/26/2019 (Permalink)
Calm Your Fears: SERVPRO Techs Can Save Your Damaged Documents
A lot can go wrong if a fire or flood makes its way through your Pompano Beach, FL office building. Primarily, you worry about the safety and well-being of your staff. Once you know everyone is all right, you’ll turn your attention to the building itself and to your equipment and materials. Documents can suffer some of the worst damage, due to their fragile nature. Amazingly, document restoration is possible when you hire the right team of professionals.
Just About Anything Is Possible
In this the digital age, hopefully you backed up sensitive data and information on cloud-based storage. Still, you’ll have paper content as well, and saving it is vital to your business. For an expert document repair company such as SERVPRO, virtually everything is within reach of restoration.
- X-rays
- Books and magazines
- Photographs
- Maps
- Files
Preliminary steps
The first thing the technicians will do for your document restoration is to analyze and inspect the extent and seriousness of the damage. There are situations where even the most skilled efforts and techniques won’t be enough to save the document. However, the team will make this consideration with deep care and respect for your items.
Freeze-Dry
It may sound like something you’d do for food storage, but this is also how the pros handle document drying. A qualified technician will employ a highly effective vacuum freeze-drying technique to carefully and thoroughly remove water and other damp materials from paper and other documents.
Cleanup
Once the tech removes the water, the next phase of the process is to clean and sanitize the content. Smoke, soot, or mold can accumulate on your documents following fire or flood. The team will use innovative gamma irradiation to make these items safe to handle.
You can now breath a sigh of relief knowing that your important materials can be safe. With these documents restoration processes, the cleanup crew can salvage just about any troublesome content.