Huntington Beach floods behind 1960s walls
SOS Restoration Santa Ana covers Huntington Beach, from downtown to the mesa. We haul the water out, then rebuild. Bilingual crews, look free. Seven in ten homes here predate 1980, and the salt air works on all of them. Call (949) 522-4470.
A person answers, day or night. The first look is free. CSLB #1131134 · IICRC #70194273
a dispatcher, an address, and a crew on the way
we dry the house and then we build it back
and the crews know the streets in Orange County
IICRC #70194273
Why blame the decade?
The surf city is older than it looks, and you feel it in the pipe.
Because one decade, the 1960s, built most of the city.
31,544 Huntington Beach homes went up in the 1960s, more than any decade before or since, and 59,408 predate 1980. Pipe that old fails on its own, salt air or not.
Water got under my mobile home. Now?
We handle it, and here it is a common call.
The city still counts 2,926 mobile homes, which behave nothing like a slab tract when water gets in. The floor sits on steel beams above a wrapped underside that hides water, so we open and meter it.
My four-plex leaked. Whose is it?
Depends on the wall, and small buildings blur the line.
Huntington Beach is full of three- and four-unit buildings, 10,528 units in all. A leak in a shared wall can be the owner’s or a tenant’s. We log it in each unit so the claim is clean.
What do you bring to a Huntington Beach job?
All six, and salt air runs through most.
Damp wall, no leak. Why?
Salt air near the water keeps humidity high in the framing.
Close to the sand the sea air stays in the framing. A wall then dries slowly and can test damp with nothing actively leaking. We meter to separate coastal damp from a real break.
When do you say it is nothing?
A damp patch that reads dry underneath does not need us, and we say so.
Salt air makes a wall feel damp here with nothing behind it. The meter settles that in a minute, and a wall reading dry is not worth a crew.
How fast can you get here?
A dispatcher answers any hour and a crew leaves as soon as the address is written.
Huntington Beach sits inside the ground we cover daily, so the drive is short. Coming out to look and read the meters costs nothing.
Who rebuilds the wall?
We do, the same crew, under both licenses.
One crew holds both: CSLB #1131134 to rebuild, IICRC #70194273 to dry. The same card reaches Irvine and Newport Beach. Tell the dispatcher what your block needs.
Nearby
Huntington Beach is the western edge of where we go. Newport is the next town down the coast, and everything else on this list is inland.
Not a good moment to talk? Write it down and we call you.
A phone number is all we actually need. Anything else you tell us only decides which crew and which gear leave the shop.
Salt air and old pipe together age a house fast, so read it early. Call (949) 522-4470 for a Huntington Beach crew.
Water, fire, smoke, mold, storm and sewage cleanup for Santa Ana and the Orange County cities around it. Any hour, any day. Se habla español.