Emergency
Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding Deerfield Beach, 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.
Shut off the water, then pick up the phone
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 laundry closet damp in a Deerfield Beach condo that was shut for the summer?
The dryer vent and the bath and kitchen exhaust ducts of a closed unit are open paths to the outdoors, kept shut only by small damper flaps, and about one Deerfield Beach home in six is held for seasonal use. Where a flap has stuck open, humid June air flows in along the duct all summer and settles in the laundry closet or bathroom first. Checking that each flap swings closed before leaving stops it.
How can water from one Deerfield Beach apartment's air handler appear far from it in the unit below?
More than two in five homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, with concrete slabs between floors. When an air handler's pan overflows, the water spreads under the flooring across that slab until it reaches an opening, a pipe sleeve or a gap at the slab edge, and drops through there. The stain below can sit several rooms away from the closet above, so the search starts at the nearest penetrations.
What runs between a Deerfield Beach condo's air handler and the roof?
Where a building's condensing units stand on the roof, a pair of refrigerant lines climbs from each apartment's air handler through a shared chase to reach them. One of those lines runs cold whenever the cooling is on, and a foam sleeve keeps the humid air off it. Where the sleeve has cracked or slipped, the line sweats inside the chase, and the walls of the units it passes take the water.
These questions also sit on the Deerfield Beach page, next to its numbers.