Emergency
Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding Clermont, 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.
Switch off the air handler if it is dripping
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
Can a crack in the stucco wet the upstairs walls of a newer Clermont house?
Where the upper floor is framed in wood, yes. Stucco over block holds water in the block, but stucco over wood sheathing lets rain past a hairline crack reach the wood itself. The cooled rooms behind keep that sheathing cool, so it dries slowly in humid August air. Paint that blisters on the upstairs walls, or a soft spot below a window, is the sign.
Why does rain end up in the garage of a Clermont house on a hill?
Clermont's hills are rare for Florida, and where a driveway slopes down toward the garage, every downpour sends the runoff from the drive, and sometimes the street above, to the garage door. Water passes under a worn door seal and spreads across the slab to the wall the garage shares with the house. A drain across the foot of the drive stops it short of the door.
How does Clermont handle the runoff from its streets?
The city's stormwater division maintains 88 miles of pipe and drains and 64 retention basins and ponds, with the runoff it manages bound for Clermont's lakes. A lot beside one of those basins sees the water rise after a heavy storm, and a lot at the foot of a slope takes the street's runoff first, so the yard and slab edge there stay wet longest.
For the figures behind these answers, see Clermont.