San Diego is known for many fine things. From having the best weather in the country to the top beaches, it is a wonderful city to work and play in. San Diego is also known for having the best craft beer scene in the country. And when something is popular, people will generally try their hand at it. Home brewing has become a fast-growing trend. More and more people are concocting systems in their rec room and garage with the dream to create the next famous IPA. But if you don’t know what you are doing, you can experience a major leak and find yourself on the phone calling a trusted water damage restoration San Diego company to come in and perform water extractions (or in this case beer extractions) and make any needed repairs to your flooring.

Know Your Gear

Whenever you have a device or an appliance that handles large amounts of water or any kind of liquid and that is left unattended, there is a potential for water damage. From a water heater leak to ruptured hoses from a washing machine, anything can go wrong at any given time. Before you start brewing up that West Coast style IPA, make sure your equipment is in perfect condition. Your bubbler, boiling pot and fermenter should show no signs of wear, cracking or bulging. Also, be sure to know how much pressure your brewing process creates and what the pressure raring is on your device. You may not be Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Alpine Brewing or Iron Fist, but you still run the same risk for potential water damage situations.  If you ever walk into your beer room and discover the fermenter blew its top and poured five gallons of centennial hop juice into your floor boards, soaking up the mess with several towels and drying the area with a fan will not suffice. Instead you will need to call a professional water cleanup company that is certified to properly remove water so that a potential mold risk won’t ensue and jeopardize the sanitary conditions where you brew your liquid gold.

Why can’t I Remove Water on my Own?

You can’t remove water on your own because you don’t have the industrial strength equipment that a licensed water damage San Diego company would have. Sopping up water with towels will not remove all the moisture, and fans will only cause the moisture to disperse around the room. Professional water damage San Diego extraction companies use state-of-the-art drying machines to remove all the moisture so that mold will never be a lingering threat later down the road. Water damage from a homebrew kit that bursts may not seem like a big deal, but damage from moisture can destroy your drywall and the beer can mingle with any oils or chemicals that were trapped in the pores of your garage’s cement floor and pose an additional health threat.

Just use Caution

When you run over to Toronado or Hamilton’s for a delicious craft beer, you probably won’t be thinking about water damage San Diego companies or the risks that come with home brewing. But just ask any craft beer establishment if they have a plan in use to help prevent water damage and they will tell you all about it. The key is to know and trust your gear and to make sure that, before every use, all the pieces of equipment are in perfect working order and you know exactly what you are doing.