Storm Damage Water Cleanup in Fosters, AL

How this job runs in Fosters

Metal roofing on a shop or an equipment shed is fastened with screws through a rubber washer, and those washers harden and the screws back out a little at a time over the years. Wind flexing the panels finishes what age started. What you get afterward is not one leak but a scatter of them, one at each fastener that lifted, dripping onto whatever is stored underneath rather than onto anything structural.

Pick a bright morning, stand inside the building with the lights off, and look up. Every pinhole of daylight along a purlin line is a fastener wanting a new washer and a turn of the driver. That is one morning with a ladder, and it is the difference between a dry shed and a season of spoiled feed and rusting equipment.

What the first visit does

1. Make it weather-tight

   The opening gets covered and broken windows and doors closed up, because nothing dries inside a house that is still standing open to the weather.

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