Flood Damage Cleanup in Cottondale, AL

How this job runs in Cottondale

Cottondale Creek takes the interstate, the ramps, the truck lots and the service pads before it takes anybody's yard, and that decides how the job runs far more than the depth does. Water off that ground carries fuel and oil and whatever washed out of a lot, and in a storm big enough it carries septic and sewer overflow along with it. Nothing porous that drank it goes back into the building.

Because the creek drops as quickly as it rises, the evidence that it was ever under your floor is gone by morning. Make the crawl hatch or the skirting panel something you can open in the dark without going to look for tools, and check it the same night. Two inches found at nine o'clock is a much smaller job than the same two inches found in October.

What the first visit does

1. Confirm the category

   Where the water came from and what it crossed getting here is settled first, because that decides the protective equipment, the containment and what can be kept.

What gets saved, what comes out and why is set out on the Flood Damage Cleanup page, and Cottondale covers the rest of the work here.