Atlanta Water Damage Restoration

This footage shows  some of the water damage in Atlanta from the 2009 floods. In this video a Powder Springs GA home that actually got pushed off its foundation to a hundred feet away. Also notice the brown mud that is dried on the white fascia below the roof. The black roofing shingles look brown now from the muddy water rising as high as the roof.

In another home you will see how the force of the water pressure broke through the windows glass. Mud stains on the interiors walls and ceiling required all of the drywall needing to be removed.

atlanta flood cleanup day 1

It is a beautiful thing to see neighbors helping one another. These volunteer workers helped this family with the arduous task of removing the wet sheetrock, insulation and duct work in their home. It all had to be removed and thrown into huge dumpsters. Listen to the home owner as she relates that a piece of insulation weighs over 50lbs when wet!
You can not fix a home until all the old wet items that can breed mold and bacteria are removed. As you can imagine this involves a lot of scrubbing with bleach! Electrical wiring and circuit breaker panels that have been wet will also need to be replaced too.

These homes not only had their basements flooded but they had another 3 to 4 feet of water on the first floor.This is all part of the

water damage Atlanta cleanup that will go on for the next few months.

This took place on September 21, 2009 . You can see that the downtown Interstate 75/85 connector that runs smack down the middle of the city of Atlanta, Georgia looks like it empties into Lake Lanier! The cars are at a complete standstill as they can’t move forward. And look at the folks trapped in their cars, they probably are afraid for their lives.

Like this wasn’t enough they all eventually had to go home and worry about all the Atlanta water damage they received too. Let’s hope this never happens again!

In this 2009 Atlanta flood video you will see footage of the poor family whose Virginia Highlands house is at the lowest point of the neighborhood cul-de-sac. All of the water runoff comes gushing into their garage like a a raging river. She looks out of her front porch and out of her rear deck and it looks like her home was built in the middle of lake Lanier! One can only imagine what the Atlanta water damage repairs are going to be like. Poor family!

Here is a video of day 2 of the flood clean up in Clarksdale, GA. It gives you an idea to the extent of cleanup needed after a flood recedes. Volunteers describe the water damage here as looking like like someone ransacked the place with water.  In this video they are shown cleaning out the lower level and first floor of a home. Everything had to ripped out including the drywall, HVAC ducts & the insulation too. Hardwood floors had to be lifted as they buckled and were still wet underneath.

Water restoration cleanup like this requires that you have to eliminate every single thing that could trap moisture and allow mold to grow. Otherwise you will be installing new drywall, pain and floors over the moldy infrastructure. This in turn will cause health problems in the future.

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Sometimes we forget how bad the 2009 Atlanta flood was. Take a moment to review this CNN coverage as a helicopter gives us a wet tour of our wet town.

Notice the the flooding on I85. And who can forget what Six Flags in Douglasville, GA looked like under brown muddy water. You can see the Chattahoochee overflowing and all of the poor home owners whose houses look like they are sitting in the middle of a lake! It is going take months to help these people with all of the water damage restoration in Atlanta that is needed.

Let’s pray it doesn’t happen again!