Water Damage Restoration in Hallandale Beach, FL

Hallandale Beach is a southern Broward County city on the Atlantic, with Hollywood to the north, Aventura in Miami-Dade County to the south and Pembroke Park to the west. It is named for Luther Halland, who was recruited by Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Gulfstream Park, with its horse racing and casino, is in the city, and so is a downtown financial district. Hallandale Beach has condominium buildings as well as houses, and Golden Isles is one of its neighborhoods. In a condominium or a house, a loss often starts with a failed water heater, a supply hose or an overflowing drain.

In a condominium, a leaking riser that serves a line of units, an air-conditioner drain or a balcony door that let in wind-driven rain can start a loss too, and the water can then travel through shared ceilings, walls and risers. A failure in one unit can reach the units below and beside it, and the building's rules can decide when and how a crew can get to them.

In a condominium building, a leak can travel. A water heater that fails, a hose to a washer or dishwasher that splits, a drain that overflows or a balcony door that let in rain can wet the ceiling of the unit below and the walls of the units beside it. A leaking riser can reach a whole line of units.

We map moisture in the unit where the water started and, when management and occupants allow access, in the units it reached. We document each affected unit we are given access to, with its own photos and readings, so the record shows where the water went.

Hurricane Katrina first made landfall between Hallandale Beach and Aventura in 2005. Hurricane winds push rain sideways into window frames, sliding-door tracks, balcony doors and roof edges. Permanent roof work belongs to a roofer.

The water often appears far from where it came in, along a wall or on the ceiling of a room below. We trace the path, log it, and dry the materials along it.