Storm Damage Water Cleanup in Cottondale, AL

What this looks like in Cottondale

A manufactured home has a shallow, nearly flat roof with the covering fastened along the eave, and wind gets under that edge before it gets under anything else on the property. Once a section lifts, rain runs the length of the ceiling cavity rather than dropping where it came in, and it collects at the far end of the home — above a back bedroom, or along the joint where the two halves of a doublewide meet.

After a wind event, walk the outside and look along both eaves for covering that has curled or fastener heads standing proud of it. Then look at the ceiling inside where the halves join. That joint is the low seam in the whole home, and a stain along it is telling you about the roof at the other end of the building.

What the first visit does

1. Check the load path

   Anything struck by a tree is read for broken rafters, split truss chords and displaced bearing before crews or equipment go in underneath it.

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