Water and fire damage restoration in East Atlanta

East Atlanta homes run from turn-of-the-century bungalows to brick ranch houses built through the middle of the century, most on lots of about a quarter-acre, and the median house dates to 1950. After World War II, the empty center of the neighborhood was subdivided and built out by the Williams brothers, who grew up here and ran a lumber and concrete business on Glenwood Avenue. Many of those houses sit on crawl spaces with their original plumbing runs.

Crawl spaces are where freeze damage starts. During hard freezes, Atlanta homeowners with crawl spaces are told to drip every faucet, hot and cold, because supply lines under the floor sit close to the outside air. When a pipe splits down there, the water spreads across the vapor barrier and soaks insulation and subfloor long before it shows inside, so we dry the crawl space and the floor above together.