Winter & Early Spring Storms

4/18/2019 (Permalink)

This past winter was rough here in Wisconsin.  We here at SERVPRO got lots of calls for water damage caused by roof ice damming and flooding caused by snow melt and early rains.  To put it in perspective, on an average day, our Appleton Franchise gets about 3 or 4 water calls.  During the height of the “storm event” we were getting approximately 60 calls a day.  There simply aren’t enough restoration businesses in the Fox Valley to service that many customers.  As a result, we activated our National Storm Team and brought in crews from other parts of the country to help service as many customers as possible.  We had two SERVPRO Crews from Virginia franchises working on our behalf in the Fox Valley.  We are proud to be the only restoration company in the industry that has a national network of franchises that they can mobilize and bring in to a certain geographical area for a storm event.

While that storm event is over, and the crews from Virginia have gone back home, we are expecting to receive a lot of mold calls this spring and summer from customers who had smaller amounts of water creep into their homes or businesses during that storm event that was previously undetected.  In the coming weeks our blog posts will focus on mold, what it is, how it spreads, when it’s a problem and more.