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Month: February 2018

Safety Tips, Water damage remediation

9 Spring Flooding Prevention Tips

After that long and unusually cold winter, it can be a huge relief to finally go outside without wearing 10 pounds of layers. But spring does have its drawbacks as snow doesn’t just disappear with warm temperatures. There’s nowhere for snow to go except underground and into foundations, not to mention the excess rain that’s soon to follow. Not only does this open the risk for water damage, but severe flooding in basements and crawlspaces can pose major problems for all home and business owners. Check out these tips on how to prevent spring flooding on your property: Move the Snow. If the snow is already melted, there’s not much you can do. But if it hasn’t, try to move it away from your property as soon as possible to prevent it from seeping into your foundation; a 3 to 5-fo...
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Safety Tips

Safety Tips for Commercial Roofers

Roof workers are vulnerable to a host of safety concerns when they perform roofing responsibilities high on a commercial roof. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a part of the United States Department of Labor, which sets clear guidelines and rules to help protect employees, like roof workers. OSHA offers a level of protection to aid roofers from work-related falls, injuries and death. The following are precautions employers and roofers must heed to ensure their careers are long and safe. OSHA Safety Standards for Commercial Roofers Personal fall protection equipment is an OSHA standard and a required safety measurement for all roofing workers. OSHA’s rule on Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems estimates that it prevents 29 deaths...
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Cleaning and restoration tips

Tips for Cleaning Your Warehouse

A commercial warehouse oftentimes houses the goods a business sells, like forklifts, machinery, and supplies to help run the business efficiently. But when the warehouse is in disorder, the situation communicates disarray to the CEO, visitors and suppliers. The company’s reputation is built on not only sales and services, but how well the property as a whole is kept organized. A warehouse is just as important as the corporate offices. The Importance of Having a Clean Warehouse 1. Higher Employee Productivity Impressions are not the only reason to keep your warehouse in tip-top shape. When employees work in a cluttered warehouse, morale suffers and staff feel overwhelmed. The CEO of the company may be inclined to believe that warehouse supervisors could care less about their work ...
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Cleaning and restoration tips, Safety Tips

Tips to Declutter the Kitchen

The kitchen is a significant part of every home. Whether it’s where families and friends gather to dine, cook, or simply hang out, a kitchen best suits the needs of everyone when it’s organized. In order to systematize this invaluable space, the kitchen must be decluttered of all inessential items. Organizing the Kitchen Purge your kitchen of extra items and make room for structured storage compartments for a neat, clean, and decluttered kitchen. You’ll discover that your forks don’t need to lay with the cooking ladles. Plus, that unopened jar of spaghetti sauce—unless you’re adept with tomato sauce and spices and make your own—should sit reliably in the pantry. The next time you prepare dinner for friends at 5:00 pm and you struggle to find eating utensils by 4:59 pm, you’ll know it...
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Cleaning and restoration tips, Safety Tips

8 Fire Safety Tips During Spring Cleaning

There’s nothing like getting a home in order just in time for spring. But there are more things to consider than just a clean home. When it comes to personal safety, ensuring all appliances and electronics are working properly is crucial; therefore, spring cleaning is the perfect time to do just that. Check out all of the fire safety tips to keep in mind during spring cleaning to keep you and your family safe: Clothes Dryers. Remember to always remove the lint from the dryer filter after each use. This is the number one cause of dryer fires because the air is not able to flow freely throughout the unit. It would also be a good idea to keep larger items away from the dryer while it’s running to prevent them from becoming overheated. Kitchen. Minimize the amount of items on the ...
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Water damage remediation, Water damage restoration

Prevent Water Damage from Melting Snow

For those living in the northern states, warmer temperatures can never come soon enough. But while we may be prepared for the snow to melt, is your home or building ready too? While warm temperatures are just around the corner, weak building materials and lack of planning can result in significant damage to your home or building. But just by taking a few steps now can prevent a major disaster in the spring. Check out these tips on how to prevent water damage from melting snow so you can focus more on going back outside instead of property damage. How to Prevent Water Damage from Melting Snow Remove blockages from gutters, downspouts, and roof. While the whole point of a gutter system is to carry water away from the home and foundation, it won’t be able to do so with bloc...
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Cleaning and restoration tips

How to Remove a Sink Stopper

While we all generally know that nothing else but water is supposed to go down the drain, other small objects and debris can slip down there on occasion. Thankfully, the sink stopper can prevent these things from falling down, but it can also get in the way when trying get the junk out of the drain. But the sink stopper doesn’t always come out easily. You will have to disconnect a lever or two below the sink in order to pull it out freely. Check out the following steps on how exactly to remove a sink stopper. How to Remove a Sink Stopper from the Drain Locate the pivot rod. When opening the cabinets underneath the sink, you will find the horizontal pivot rod that is attached to the drainpipe. The pivot rod is also connected to the drain lever that controls the sink stopper to ...
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Cleaning and restoration tips

Ice Dam Removal Tips

During the winter, icicles are a common sight along the roof lines of homes and buildings.  In fact, the image of icicles lined up along a building is one of the first that comes to mind in relation to the winter season.  As charming as icicles look along your home, they are typically the sign of a common winter problem; ice dams. Water Damage Caused by Ice Dams Ice dams are thick mounds of ice that form at the edge of the roof and they prevent water from the melting ice and snow from draining properly from the roof.  Ice dams form when heat from the attic melts the snow or ice in one spot of your roof, only for the water to become frozen again at the edge of your roof.  Over time, these ice dams can grow big enough to do some serious damage to your property. How Ice Dams Damage Hom...
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