Can Anything Be Done to Restore Water Damaged Documents in Helena?

6/9/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Helena & Great Falls offers innovative solutions to specialized water damage scenarios.

See How SERVPRO Shares Surprising Strategies to Salvage Priceless Pictures and Documents in Helena

Working remotely allows you to choose your Helena office decor and location, a great perk until an accident occurs. Perhaps you station yourself by an open window or on the other end of the table that holds the family aquarium. Rain blowing inside when you run an errand or water escaping when the tank cracks can flood across your spreadsheets, notes, and books, soaking important data and printed reports. Personal possessions, such as photos, might be affected as well.

Do I Have to Throw Away Wet Papers and Pictures?

Some materials hold up well to water damage in your Helena home office, but papers, books, and photos are fragile and become more so when wet. The instinctive response to coping with wet papers, quite frankly, is to dispose of much of them as the typical homeowner knows of few ways to combat the deterioration of the cellulose fibers soaked with fluids. Fortunately, our production facility technicians have some better responses to these circumstances.

Freezing Paper and Photos Is a Solution?

It is not precisely the freezing of the damaged documents and photographs that is the answer. Instead, it is the specialized method by which the moisture absorbed into the pages is vaporized that is the drying trick. SERVPRO offers as a resource freeze-drying. Freeze-drying, or sublimation, uses pressurized chambers to transition water from a frozen state directly to a vapor without moving through the intervening liquid state. Although the papers might not regain the perfect smoothness and clarity they offered initially, vital information is saved. In the case of photos, irreplaceable memories are restored.

SERVPRO of Helena & Great Falls offers innovative solutions to specialized water damage scenarios. Call us at (406) 458-6008 before you make the mistake of giving up on the reclamation of your property too soon.