Do Locally-Owned Restoration Companies Deliver Outstanding Outcomes for Chicago Commercial and Residential Water Damage?

6/30/2021 (Permalink)

SERVPRO traveled to help the community after a Polar Vortex in Louisiana.

SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown earned its reputation as a water remediation industry leader through both Chicago area and national disaster restoration successes

Downtown Chicago commercial and residential water damage pose challenges. Iconic skyscrapers, multi-use retail and residential buildings, restaurants, and sprawling museum campuses line the streets, lakefront, and city avenues. When bust pipes or leaking roofs from storms occur, damage spreads, rapidly involving additional spaces and levels of the often massive properties. Managing the destruction requires a scalable trained and certified workforce and immediate access to a vast inventory of commercial-grade equipment, proprietary EPA-registered cleaning and sanitizing products, and other resources.

Can SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown Provide the Fast and Wide-Ranging Help Needed in Chicagoland?

Commercial and residential building owners and managers can rest assured that SERVPRO is up to the task of mitigating and remediating even catastrophic water damage affecting Chicago's landmarks. We are among the elite contractors of the nationwide SERVPRO Commercial Large Loss Division. Because of this designation, when disasters in other areas of the country overwhelm those regions' restoration industry leaders, we are eager to answer the call. Transporting work crews and equipment hundreds or even thousands of miles away to join the effort to turn the tide after extreme weather threatens to destroy housing and businesses is part of our mission. We use the experience gained during these projects to hone our skills, benefiting our local customers.

How Did SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown Assist During the February 2021 Polar Vortex in Louisiana?

The company charged with the care of the military and family housing on the U.S. military base Fort Polk and its Joint Readiness Training Center subcontracted with our Chicago area SERVPROs in early 2021 for water removal and water damage remediation and mitigation. Corvias Property Management  maintains the on-post homes, 70 percent of which suffered water damage from burst pipes due to the extreme cold as well as closely associated natural disasters in the eight months preceding, including:

• Two hurricanes
• A tropical storm
• An ice storm

Was SERVPRO Able to Help Corvias Immediately? 

The historic low temperatures dropped on Fort Polk are commonplace in our home communities. SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown stepped up with confidence because of our winter water damage background. Our managers and technicians understand the damage frozen water creates and the widespread destruction lingering after the thaw. Once we mobilized work crews and a substantial inventory of equipment 1000 miles to Vernon Parish, Louisiana, we were on the job:

• Removing standing water
• Tracing water migration with sensitive detection and metering tools
• Performing skillful controlled demolition to open wet cavities and remove soaked insulation and building materials
• Using specialized equipment to dry structural components rapidly

Understanding the complete resume of SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown makes entrusting your downtown water damage emergency to our team the savvy choice. Call (773) 434-9100 to schedule an assessment today.