Flood Recovery in South Yorkshire

The Problem

Companies with premises that had flooded included Ladbrokes Coral. Early in the crisis, two of its betting shops, one in Rotherham and one in Worksop, were flooded with up to six inches of dirty water and had to close.

Fortunately for Ladbrokes Coral, it could immediately call on the services of SafeGroup, the emergency specialist cleaning, decontamination and waste services provider.

We provide reactive extreme cleaning services for Ladbrokes Coral, responding rapidly to a wide range of emergency cleaning jobs, including sewage spills, graffiti and criminal damage – and flooding.

This gave Ladbrokes Coral a single number to call to get professional emergency recovery and cleaning support when needed.

The Solution

Our long-term relationship with Ladbrokes Coral meant we had systems in place to make it easier for us to mobilise emergency flood recovery teams to deploy to Rotherham and Worksop with the specialist equipment they needed to clear flood water, then clean and dry premises as quickly and safely as possible.

Flood recovery response – Rotherham

We received the first call from Ladbrokes Coral late on a Friday about its flooded premises in Rotherham. By Saturday morning, we had a four-person emergency flood recovery team in place, working on the site.
Flood water had risen six inches up the wall but had been receding in the hours before the SafeGroup team arrived. There were still pools of dirty water in the 200m2 premises and the entire carpeted floor was soaked through.

The SafeGroup team used a wet vac machines to remove water. Mops and cloths were also used to clear water. All surfaces were wiped down, with a specialist professional sanitiser used to kill bacteria, stop mould growth and prevent odours.

Electric power from a neighbouring property was used while an electrician checked the electrical systems in the betting shop. Once this initial drying process was completed, three dehumidifiers and six air movers were installed and left to operate for the rest of the day and overnight. The flood recovery cleaning took six hours to complete. By morning, the premises were ready to open to the public once again, little more than 36 hours after they were forced to close by the flood water.

Flood recovery response – Worksop

While the SafeGroup team was working at Rotherham, Ladbrokes Coral alerted SafeGroup to a similar flood 16 miles away in Worksop. Its betting shop there had been forced to close by flood water. SafeGroup immediately mobilised a second team of flood cleaning operatives to that location.

There, they found a similar situation, with flood water receding after the betting shop had been inundated with water.

The flood recovery team followed a similar process, to colleagues in Rotherham, quickly using specialist equipment to remove flood water, meticulously clean all surfaces with a specialist sanitiser and install three dehumidifiers and six air movers. The whole emergency flood cleaning response lasted eight hours and was completed by late evening.

As with the Rotherham premises, this allowed Ladbrokes to
plan to reopen the betting shop the following day, Sunday.