In this episode, Ken Hellobank an agricultural engineer with the NDSU extension service goes over hazard protection on a flood damage cleanup job. We're gonna be doing a series of five short the deal clips related to flooded house clean up. The first one is going to be on protection from hazards as you're going in and doing the cleanup. It's important that we be aware of what we're going to face and take appropriate protection to it so that we don't get hurt as we're doing that cleanup.

It's important as we start into this process that we're aware that there are going to be companies that come in to help you do the cleanup. It's critical that if you are going to utilize some of the other services that you make sure that those contractors have the local licensing bonding insurance training and certifications that are required to do the work. Most of these companies are certainly legitimate companies that come in but it is important to make sure that you verify with them that they have the appropriate credentials to be doing the work for you.

As you get it and are making decisions about the clean up it's important to seek help this is a task that we've never faced before and it's important that we learn how to do it correctly and that if there are questions that we're seeking out help. Not only help for the actual you know nuts and bolts of doing the water damage cleanup but also there's a lot of financial and emotional aspects related to the flood clean up. It's important that we don't be making hasty decisions and that we work our way through the process really we need to be thinking of this as a marathon that's going to take us some time to get that home recovered.

If we don't do the clean up immediately it's important that we take steps to try to minimize the amount of damage that will continue to occur in the home. One of the major issues that they were going to be facing as mold growth that with the moist conditions in the home in the building that warm damp air is going to cause mold to grow extensively it is she is shown on this right slide and as we look here.

If we don't do the clean up immediately it's important that we take steps to try to minimize the amount of water damage that will continue to occur in the home one of the major issues that they were going to be facing as mold growth that with the moist conditions in the home in the building that warm damp air is going to cause mold to grow extensively it is she is shown on this right slide and as we look here.

You can see that there is mold that is occurring not only on the lower level where there might have been moisture but throughout the structure. It's critical that we try to dry out of the structures quickly as we can. When things are still damp we want to be looking at some major cleaning of some of the mold and muck that came in as part of that flooding event. Try to move some of that away from the structure as much as we can while it is still wet so that the initial assessment is determined what is going to be tackled first and how we're going to proceed through the cleanup process.

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