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AC Leaks and Storm Water

Water Damage Restoration Hollywood, FL

Hollywood and the rest of Florida: when a wall or floor stays wet long after the leak, one call puts it with an independent local pro.

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  • Calls answered at any hour of the day
  • Independent contractors, each in their own area
  • Homes, condos and rentals all included
  • Say where the water came from

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    Water keeps moving after hours, so the line does too.

A referral line to independent water damage contractors across Florida, from the Panhandle to the Keys, reached on one number.

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Many of these jobs start under the air handler or along a slab.

Why a Florida building stays wet: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

What keeps Hollywood buildings wet

Water in a ceiling, wall or slab anywhere in Hollywood goes to an independent restoration contractor on a single call. Hollywood, chartered in 1925, was laid out over pine forest, tomato farms and low-lying marshland, and some 4,440 homes keep septic systems on record.

The age of the buildings

About 61,242 of the 72,843 homes in Hollywood were finished before 1990, around a median of 1969; a home's age can show in where its condensate drains and what its floor sits on. Close to two in five homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, and where a building of the late 1960s has had its stucco recoated over the decades in a thick, rubbery elastomeric paint, rain that gets in at a crack is sealed behind that skin and spreads through the wall instead of drying out through the surface.

The humid season

The air over Hollywood carries the most water in August, when the normal dewpoint reaches 75.6 degrees, and from June through September it does not drop below 70 even overnight; June brings 8.84 of the 65.04 inches a year, rain recorded at HOLLYWOOD 1.9 miles away and dewpoint 19.1 miles away. The city was laid out over ground that included low-lying marshland, and through June, the wettest month, a drain field at any of the 4,440 homes with septic systems on record may lie in soil that was wet long before it was a yard, with little room left for the household's water once the downpours begin.

Where water settles in Hollywood

  • Late-1960s buildings recoated in thick elastomeric paint, where rain past a crack is sealed into the wall and spreads behind the coating
  • Concrete eyebrow ledges over the windows of older buildings that have settled to slope back toward the wall, sending rain into the window heads
  • Drain fields at some 4,440 homes with septic systems on record, in a city laid out over ground that included low-lying marshland

Water Damage Restoration services in Hollywood

Start from what you found - a stain, a wet floor, or a wall that will not dry. Independent contractors working Hollywood pick it up from there.

Areas covered around Hollywood

The rest of Florida is listed town by town.

Frequently asked questions

What makes the paint balloon on the outside of an older Hollywood condominium?

Close to two in five Hollywood homes are in buildings of ten or more units. Where a building of the late 1960s has been recoated over the years in a thick, rubbery elastomeric paint, the coating sheds rain well, but water that gets in at a crack is sealed behind it. It spreads through the wall and pushes the skin out in soft blisters, which mark where the water is held.

Why does water show up at the top of a window in an older Hollywood building?

Look at the ledge above it. Where a building of the late 1960s has a concrete eyebrow over each window to shade the glass, and one has settled or was poured with little pitch, rain on it runs back toward the wall instead of dripping off its edge. It finds the joint at the top of the window frame. Stains below the window head after a June storm point to it.

Is the city of Hollywood replacing septic systems with sewer?

The city has committed to converting residential septic systems to municipal sewer, and some 4,440 Hollywood homes still have septic systems on record. Until a home is connected, its drain field takes June's downpours along with the household's water, in a city first laid out over pine forest, farms and low-lying marshland. A field that fills sends water back toward the lowest drain in the house.

Hollywood, FL

A Hollywood leak that will not dry out?

Calls are free and picked up straight away, with no form to fill in and nothing owed.

Call (833) 243-4415

The call is free and binds no one

If water is still coming in, close the main shutoff, or switch the air handler off if the water is coming from it, before calling.

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