Emergency
Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding North Miami 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.
Say where the water came from when you 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 are the window sills of a lower North Miami Beach apartment wet on a dry day?
Nearly half the homes here are in buildings of ten or more units. Where a building of the late 1960s is still cooled by window units, each unit drips the water it pulls from the room's air off its outer edge. That water runs down the face of the building and onto the sills and walls of the apartments beneath, every day the cooling runs. A drip line or tray that carries it clear of the wall stops it.
What stains the hallway soffit in an older North Miami Beach apartment?
Where a building has concrete ceilings with no space above them, the supply ducts often run in boxed soffits along the hallway. The box encloses the duct in air from the rooms around it, and wherever the duct's insulation has slumped or a joint leaks cold air, water condenses on it and soaks the soffit. A stain that follows the length of the box marks the duct inside.
What does a high June water table do to a North Miami Beach drain field?
North Miami Beach has 934 homes with septic systems on record, on ground about 9 feet above sea level. A drain field needs a layer of unsaturated soil beneath it to take the household's water. Where June's storms lift the water table close beneath the lawn, that layer thins, and the field takes water slowly or not at all. Drains in the house that slow after a wet week are the sign.
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