Emergency
Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding Boca Raton, FL
Surge and tidal water rise from the ground up and carry salt and silt with them. Anything porous they soaked is treated as contaminated. Outside water that rose into the building is treated as contaminated, and porous material it reached is removed. Salt left behind in materials keeps pulling water from the air, so it is cleaned out with the rest.
Wet days later? That is worth a call
Often needed alongside
- Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water removed before it soaks into slab, block and flooring - the first step after any failure, and the one humid air makes urgent.
- Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water.
- Sewer & Septic Backflow Cleanup
Heavy rain and a high water table can push sewage back through the lowest drain in the building. Clear or murky, it is handled as sewage.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the garage ceiling under a Boca Raton condominium building wet?
More than two in five Boca Raton homes are in buildings of ten or more units. Where such a building stands over open-air parking, the units above are cooled, so the concrete between them and the garage runs cooler than the outdoor air passing through the parking level, and water condenses on its underside. Drips on cars and dark patches on the garage ceiling are the signs, most of all in the humid months.
What happens to rain on the flat roof of an old house in Old Floresta?
Old Floresta's first twenty-nine houses were built from Addison Mizner plans by the end of 1927, and the Aiken House there has flat loggia roofs of pitch and gravel behind parapets capped with terra cotta tile. On a roof like that, rain that does not reach a drain waits behind the parapet, and in humid weeks it dries slowly, so the ceiling of the room below is the place to watch for stains.
Why do things kept in a Boca Raton condominium storage room get damp?
A storage room on an open parking level sits in outdoor air rather than the building's cooled air, so through June its contents take on the outdoor humidity. Cardboard, upholstered furniture and paper soak it up, and anything stored against the concrete wall or floor picks up water there too. Plastic bins with lids, raised off the floor, keep stored things out of the worst of it.
The page these come from: Boca Raton water damage.