Nothing prepares you for the feelings of crushing due to come into your home for the first time after a flood. Seeing your house and objects get wet, dirty and damaged it will hurt, your innermost being.

This is one of the things that are so important to clean the project starts. This means that life can return to normal and you can begin to heal.

There are also health reasons need to be cleaned quickly. Water damage can be disabled very unhealthy for you andTheir family. Structural damage can be expected even worse for longer.

Cleaning up after a flood, it's time, tiring, expensive and dangerous. The amount depends on your insurance. If you have flood insurance, it's all what you do at this point, your damage and irreplaceable items like photographs and diaries. Leave the insurance to worry about anything else.

If you are insured, how many families in Panama, you are alone, and sixforced to pay someone or herself with the restructuring on their own. For most people, will probably be a combination of both.

Before entering the house after a flood, you must make sure it is safe to do so. This is particularly important when returning from a forced evacuation or recommended.

Check with local authorities to ensure that the danger of flooding has passed. You also need to find out if the site is safe around, above and under your home. Mudflows are a very real dangerAreas surrounded by hills, and can be much more dangerous than the original high water event.

Once you know the area is safe to return, you need to know your house is too sure.

The three biggest threats are the problems of electricity, gas and structural. In that order.

Find out if your home electricity is off. If it is turned off, you need to know that the panel is not compromised by water. And do you want out of the surf for the rest of the house. Ifthe risk that the panel or the cable directly to your door was wet, it should lead to a professional to assess the situation and turn it off. Not even close to anything that could cause the power when working on wet or standing in water.

Gas leaks are another possibility, due to damage or water penetration. Make sure that the gas is turned off in the house until the whole situation can be evaluated and transformed.

Finally, make sure the house is structurallySound. Flood damage alone usually does not affect the structural strength to your homes. At least in the short term. But fast-flowing water, landslides, or debris in the soft ground movement could. If you are not safe at all, to bring in a structural engineer for evaluation.

Once you know what is safe, can begin cleaning. But there is a safety factor to consider. Contamination. Unfortunately, flooding is not usually included drinking water. Impurities and toxins from the sewerother chemicals and bacteria that accompany the water. Make sure they are protected with rubber boots, gloves and protective clothing. Masks and other equipment may also be necessary if it is suspected sewage contamination. Make sure any cuts or open wounds on the body is well protected from infection.

To begin, remove standing water in your home. Depending on the design and layout, this could mean renting a water pump to remove water standing outside. If using a gasDriven pump, you must run the machine outside to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

Once the water is, you have to go through your things. Some fell into different categories, products produced on the wet surface and non-absorbent and absorbent articles which may be registered or water.

Non-porous items can be easily cleaned and disinfected. Note that the floods are not clean, to kill the bacteria with a disinfectantCleaner.

Absorbent articles are much more difficult. Some items are obviously damaged, and should be given away. Photographs in which the ink is used, and books that fall apart, are obvious examples.

Often the objects that are not obvious can be saved "corrupt". However, it can be difficult. If you can live without, or can afford to replace the water stored materials, are often the best way to get rid of. Above all paper objects, probably beyond repair. If photos or booksvery sentimental, sometimes it can be saved, but it can be difficult to dry and disinfect.

Garments can be washed, but should be washed with bleach.

Furniture and mattresses should be cleaned professionally. Especially if there is a possibility of contamination. If you know, they are not contaminated, you must take steps to eliminate as much water as possible, and dries as quickly as possible, before mold number should also look for productsfor the disinfection of these types of items.

Once your belongings are removed and disposed of, or be cleaned, its time to do with the house itself.

If wet and drywall must be removed. There will never be sufficiently dry. You must open the walls anyway, so the supporting structures to dry. Depending on the type of insulation, you will probably need to be removed and replaced.

Clean all surfaces that have been in contact with water. ThenDisinfection cleaned with a disinfectant.

Now you have to let everything dry completely. How long will it take, how your house is built, the temperature inside and out, and how bad was the flooding. A complete drying can take weeks or even months.

If it's warm enough outside, keep all windows and doors open to increase ventilation helps. There are also industrial-sized fans, you can rent or buy to let air in motion. If you are in a colder climate, keep the heatingbe executed. But only once and for all damages that have been verified by a qualified technician.

Make sure that everything is completely dry and disinfected before attaching drywall to create and renew your home. You should talk to a professional for the construction, if the reconstruction to be done.

Talk to a professional before starting your electricity and gas.

Flood damage is extremely costly to address, if you take any insurance. It 'also scary when you lose the emotional elementsthat can not be replaced.

Get rid of as many of your wet clothes as possible and then clean and sanitize the rest is as fast as possible critical life back to normal.

So why is it that everything is completely dried.

You can recover from a flood. It can be expensive and it is still difficult. But whatever you do, make sure it is done correctly so that no further damage or health problems in the future.