Water Damage Restoration in Margate, FL

Margate was founded in the 1950s, when much of the land was still Everglades or farmland. It became a town in 1955 and was incorporated as a city in 1961. Its name joins that of Jack Marqusee, who founded the city, with the word gateway, because Margate was seen as a gateway to western Broward. The city is about seven and a half miles from the Atlantic Ocean and has no beachfront, so heavy rain, plumbing and drains are the usual water sources.

Because the city dates from the 1950s, some of its housing may be decades old; where plumbing, roofs or water heaters date from then, they are likely starting points for a loss. Such parts can give way with little warning, and a damp cabinet floor, a faint ceiling stain or a slow drain may be the only sign.

Where a Margate building still has plumbing from decades ago, the parts that are always wet are often the first to fail. Those are the water heater, the supply lines at toilets, sinks and washing machines, and the fittings behind them. They rarely fail all at once. A line seeps, a cabinet floor stays damp or the water bill creeps up, until one joint gives way.

Close the fixture's stop valve or the main, take photos of the damage, then call. The crew extracts standing water, traces the wet area through the floor and the bottoms of the walls using meters and a thermal camera, and dries what the water reached.