Water Damage Restoration in Canarsie

What We Do

What a water job covers in a Canarsie house

One crew takes the whole job, from the night the water shows up to the last coat of paint. Here is what that includes:

• Stopping the spread. We shut off the source if you haven't managed to, then pump and extract standing water from the cellar, the garage level or whichever floor it reached.
• Finding where it went. Moisture meters and a thermal camera on every wall, floor and ceiling the water could have touched, not just the wet patches you can see.
• Taking out what can't be saved. Soaked drywall, carpet and pad, insulation and swollen trim. Sewer water is Category 3, so more of the room comes out.
• Cleaning and treating. A wash-down of the slab and framing that stay, followed by an antimicrobial.
• Drying to readings. Air movers and dehumidifiers, checked in the same spots every day until the numbers say dry.
• Putting it back. Drywall, flooring, trim and paint, done by our own rebuild crew instead of a stranger you have to hire later.

The estimate is free, and you see the scope before any rebuild starts.

Low Ground

Why the lowest rooms here take the water

City Planning's Resilient Neighborhoods report on Canarsie places roughly two thirds of the neighborhood's residential buildings inside the floodplain on the maps it worked from. It also says sunken front yards are typical here, that they make ponding worse, and that residents across the neighborhood are concerned about sewer capacity.

For our crews, that usually means water entering at the lowest opening: a garage door below the sidewalk, a cellar entry, a floor drain. When it comes from the street or the sewer, we treat it as Category 3 and plan the removal and cleaning around that. Our page on sewer water coming up through a floor drain covers that kind of call in more detail.

Call To Rebuild

Five steps from the phone call to finished rooms

• 1. The call. Tell us where the water is and what sits under it. If it's still running, we talk you through the shutoff. If water is near the boiler or the electrical panel, stay out of the cellar. Arrival is usually 30 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on the hour and traffic.
• 2. The walkthrough. We go through every affected room with you, show you the readings and thermal images, and explain what's wet, what can dry where it is and what has to go.

• 3. What stays and what goes. Cabinets, built-ins and things stored in the cellar get a decision too, not just the walls. We tell you what can be cleaned and dried and what isn't worth saving, and the owner approves it before anything leaves the house.
• 4. Signing off on dry. On the last drying visit we read every marked spot again and show you those numbers next to a dry wall in the same house. The equipment leaves only after that.
• 5. Handoff and final walkthrough. The drying notes and measurements go to our rebuild crew, so nothing gets measured twice. When the rooms are closed up and painted, we walk them with you once more.

Across Paerdegat Basin, owners get the same crew and process; see our Bergen Beach page. Just west, the attached houses have their own page: water damage in Flatlands. For neighborhoods farther afield, there's our borough-wide water damage page.