Atlanta Water Damage Restoration

Alexis Preston and her mother were very excited when they finally found a home in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood big enough for their extended family of 13. They agreed to a lease-to-own deal to rent the neatly painted 12-bedroom house for $2,100 a month from the property’s owner through foreclosure, from the bank.

The house appeared to be well maintained. On paper it looked fantastic as it detailed renovations and improvements over the years. It is one thing to look good on paper… and quite another in reality as the family soon found out from the shoddy atlanta water damage repairs.

Three days after they moved in their new home, the house flooded during a rainstorm, beginning a nearly yearlong battle with repeated flooding, mold, water damage, roof leaks, buckling floors and months-long power outages.

Eventually mold contamination sickened many members of the family forcing them to have to leave.

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“It went from a dream home to a hellhole,” Preston, 27, said of the house, now owned by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after Omni failed in March.

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.

Learn more about Atlanta water damage restoration.