Cleaning after water damage in Bratislava

Cleaning after a flood or water damage in Bratislava. We come quickly, remove the water and the dirt, dry the space and tell you what can be saved and what cannot. The price is set by area and scope after a survey.

The first hours decide it

After water damage the issue is not cleanliness but time. Water keeps soaking into flooring, plasterboard and furniture after it has stopped running, and after roughly two days mould starts growing in wet material. The sooner the moisture is out, the smaller the damage and the fewer things have to be thrown away.

Before we arrive: switch off the electricity in the flooded part, stop the source, photograph everything before touching anything — the photos are evidence for the insurer and for the neighbours — and lift off the floor whatever can be carried.

What we do

Extract standing water from floors, carpets and upholstery with a wet vacuum. Wash and disinfect surfaces — water from the flat above or from drainage is not clean, however it looks. Clean and dry what can be saved. Remove silt and deposits. Take away what is beyond saving, once you have agreed it.

Where the water came from drainage we disinfect regardless of how the space looks.

What survives and what does not

Tiles, solid wood furniture and plastic surfaces usually do. Laminate flooring almost never — the joints swell and the edges stay raised after drying. Plasterboard that has been in water is cut out and replaced; it cannot be dried in a way that keeps mould out.

Carpets and upholstery depend on the water and how long it stood. With clean water and under 24 hours the odds are good and the answer is extraction cleaning. With drainage water we advise against saving textiles.

We say so on site and plainly — promising to rescue soaked laminate would mean charging for work you would pay for again in a month.

Drying and mould

What happens over the next few days matters more than the extraction. The space has to be ventilated and dried; moisture in the structure is exactly the environment mould needs, and it appears even in a room that looks dry.

Surface mould that has already appeared we remove. Mould grown into the structure — plasterboard, insulation, under the floor — we do not treat chemically, because it comes back; there the material has to be replaced.

If a smell remains after drying, ozone treatment helps, but only once the space is genuinely dry. Before that it is pointless.

Insurance and neighbours

Take the photographs before the cleaning, not after, and photograph what you are going to throw away too. An insurer assesses the extent of the damage, not its aftermath, and a cleaned room is hard to document.

On request we write down what we did, at what scope and what state the space was in on arrival. It is not an expert's report, but it is a dated description that cannot be produced retrospectively.

Price

By area and scope, after a survey. With flooding the price cannot come off a form: a flooded bathroom and a flooded cellar full of silt differ tenfold. Call rather than use the form — with water damage it is a matter of hours.