About Lakewood Water Damage Restoration

Most of Lakewood's houses were built before 1940, and the house type that shapes this work is the Cleveland double. It is a two-family house, usually up-and-down, with one flat on each floor and often a smaller apartment above. The upstairs bathroom and kitchen sit directly over the downstairs living space, so a supply failure upstairs can bring a ceiling down below it, and one basement serves two households.

Almost every house here has a full basement, and that is where the furnace, the water heater, the electrical panel and the floor drain sit. Lakewood runs a combined sewer system, which carries sanitary sewage and storm water in one pipe. In heavy rain that water can come back up a basement floor drain, and sewer backup is contaminated water that needs careful cleanup. Sewer and drain backup is usually an add-on endorsement on a homeowners policy, not part of the base policy, so check whether you have it before you need it.

Winter is the other driver. The first freeze normally comes around late October and the last into late April. Lakewood gets less lake-effect snow than the east side, but it gets the same freezes and the same thaws, and those split pipes in exterior walls and attics. Clay till under the lawns sheds water instead of absorbing it, so sump pumps and footing drains can run for weeks in a wet spring. Lakewood Water Damage Restoration takes the call and connects you with an independent local licensed restoration company, which does the work.