A flooded apartment is always an unexpected and unpleasant emergency, from which no one is immune. What is the first thing to do if your apartment is flooded? Sources of flooding can be a burst pipe, heating circuit or faulty fittings (taps and faucets) in the bathroom or kitchen.
We advise you to take the following steps first:
- De-energize the apartment (or even the entryway), thereby protecting everyone in the apartment from electric shock or a short circuit of the wiring; - Contact your neighbors immediately to eliminate the source of the water if there is a leak from above; - If the water broke through your apartment, call an emergency crew, or if you know how, turn off the water in the apartment or riser yourself; - After that, if the leak is the fault of the neighbors or the housing cooperative, spend a few minutes and fix on video or photo evidence of the damage caused by flooding; - In any case, quickly collect water improvised means, try to remove fu…