How to Prepare Your Home for Heavy Rainfall

3/15/2021 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Citrus Heights/Roseville and Carmichael is your best option for storm mitigation and restoration.

Rainfall is crucial to keeping a functional environment. From it, we get rainwater for showering, toilet flushing, and so much more. It also keeps our gardens green and fresh with pure air that also has a calming effect on the body. However, just as an excess of everything could be dangerous, too much rainfall can be disastrous. 

Heavy rainfall can pose several harmful effects on your home due to flooding, which may damage properties and every other valuable item both on the inside and outside. 

Meanwhile, you don’t have to wait until it happens. As a professional mitigation and restoration company, SERVPRO of Citrus Heights/Roseville and Carmichael has helped you compile great pro tips to prepare both the outside and inside your home against heavy rainfall. 

Getting ready from the outside

Having a perfect preparation for your building's outside area to prevent heavy rainfall is the best way to secure the inside. Hence, you need to pay attention to these external preparation tips.

1. Check your roof. 

Checking if your roof is in perfect condition is the first step of the external preparation. A leaked or damaged ceiling can be a door through which floods can storm your building. Ensure that you fix every damage in your roof accurately to put it in the proper condition to withstand the pressures of excess rainfall. 

2. Clean your gutters

A dirty or blocked gutter can redirect water into some places that can cause damage to your home. When water pools in your channel, it can affect the basement or the foundation, which can pose more threats to the building. 

Aside from cleaning the gutter, you should also ensure that you clear every debris from street grates and be careful enough to cover all your valuable items on the outside area of your building.

Preparing the inside 

1. Keep your Sump pump 

Preparation for the inside area of the building begins with running some tests on your sump pump to ensure it’s working correctly. If it is faulty and causes flooding, you call us the team for mitigation and restoration. 

2. Get your emergency kit ready

You should always be alert for the unexpected. It is essential to have good batteries in place for your flashlights, charge your cell phones and get an emergency kit to serve you should you go out of power for an extended period.

Not only that, you should always ensure you close your doors and windows to prevent water from entering the building when rainfalls. 

Conclusively, it is essential to ensure that every necessary repair is served to your building to prepare your home against heavy rainfall. While there are some do-it-yourself tips to repair your roof on the internet, you should contact a professional restoration company for the best results. 

If your home is in Citrus Heights, Roseville, or Carmichael, SERVPRO of Citrus Heights/Roseville and Carmichael is your best option for storm mitigation and restoration. We have all the technical know-how to keep your building safe from any damage. Call 916-966-2601.