Flood Damage Cleanup in Tuscaloosa, AL

How this usually starts in Tuscaloosa

Cribbs Mill Creek and Cypress Creek collect from streets, lots and roofs long before they reach anybody's yard, which is why what comes into a building off them is not rainwater in any useful sense. It carries whatever the pavement was holding, and in a storm heavy enough to surcharge the sanitary system it carries that too. Porous material it soaked into is a removal decision rather than a drying one.

Before anything is pumped, moved or cleaned, mark the height the water reached on a wall or a pier with tape and take a photograph of it. That line is what sets where drywall gets cut and how far up insulation comes out, and it vanishes the moment the room is tidied. It takes a minute, and it settles the argument that arrives later.

How the work opens

1. Dry against the site

   Readings are taken daily and equipment stays longer on bottomland, because saturated ground under a house keeps handing moisture back to the framing above it.

Method, drying targets and salvage decisions are on the Flood Damage Cleanup page. Tuscaloosa covers the town as a whole.