Emergency
Sewer & Septic Backflow Cleanup Winter Garden, FL
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. Anything that rose back up through a drain is handled as sewage, however clean it appears. Where a saturated septic field is the cause, it has to be draining again before the building is used.
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.
- Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding
Surge and tidal water rise from the ground up and carry salt and silt with them. Anything porous they soaked is treated as contaminated.
Frequently asked questions
Why do the upstairs rooms of a newer Winter Garden house feel damp?
In a two-story house cooled by one system with its thermostat downstairs, the cooling stops once the lower floor reaches its setting, while the upstairs, warmed by the roof, has had less of its air run across the coil. Those rooms keep more of the summer's water, and it settles on window frames and the walls of closets. A second thermostat, or a system with zones, dries both floors.
What kind of ground did Winter Garden's first settlers farm?
Settlers came in the 1850s for the fertile muck land bordering Lake Apopka, farming citrus and vegetables along its south shore. Muck is dark, organic soil that holds water far longer than sand. The city's center stands about 99 feet above sea level, but where a house today sits on muck near the lake, June's rain stays in the ground at the slab edge between storms.
What do cracks at the corners of the windows in a Winter Garden stucco house mean?
Stucco tends to crack in a fine diagonal line from each corner of a window opening, where the wall's movement concentrates. In a June storm, wind drives rain into those cracks, and it reaches the block or framing behind them and the joint around the window frame. Sealing the cracks with a patch compatible with the stucco, and repainting, keeps that water out of the wall.
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