Whenever you respond to a home with water damage, one of the most important tasks that you will complete during your preliminary inspection is how you categorize the level of water contamination. How you categorize the level of water contamination establishes how you will mitigate the loss. It determines what materials you should remove and dispose of, and what materials can be decontaminated, cleaned and dried.
Check out our helpful tips below to see what the different categories of water are and how to categorize them.