Storm Damage Water Cleanup in Northport, AL

How this job runs in Northport

Downtown Northport and the Kentuck blocks are flat-roofed masonry with parapet walls, and in a wind event the weak point is the metal coping along the top of that wall rather than anything out in the field of the roof. Lift one length of it and rain runs straight into the top of the brick, down inside the wall, and out at a ceiling on the floor below — often a good distance from where the metal actually let go.

After a hard blow on one of these buildings, the place to look is the top edge of the wall, from the roof, not the middle of the membrane. Coping that has lifted and dropped back into place looks like nothing at all from the sidewalk, and the first evidence indoors normally waits for the next rain rather than arriving with the storm.

The first thing that happens

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.

Everything procedural — sequence, equipment, what gets kept — lives on the Storm Damage Water Cleanup page. For the wider local picture, see Northport.