Washington Heights, answered 24/7
Water damage cleanup in Washington Heights
Water in the lobby, the garage or the apartment below? Washington Heights is big prewar apartment buildings on steep hills, and water finds every level. We dry and rebuild.
- Answering 24/7
- Apartment buildings
- Garages and lower levels
Quick answer
In Washington Heights the big losses often start at the building's own water line: when a private service line feeding a 250-unit building at Riverside Drive and 160th Street ruptured, water poured into the garage and lower levels. We extract, dry and rebuild apartments, lobbies and garages, answering 24/7.
What restoration looks like in Washington Heights
Washington Heights is mostly large prewar apartment buildings, many of them co-ops, built into steep hillsides. Lower levels, garages and basement laundry rooms sit below the street on one side of the building, so water from a break outside heads straight for them.
Inside, it's the usual city mix: leaks from the unit above, steam heat, old risers and bathroom leaks into the apartment below.
Service lines and old pipes uptown
When a private water service line feeding a 250-unit building at Riverside Drive and 160th Street ruptured, water poured into the garage and lower levels, and the repair fell to the building's owners rather than the city. More than half of the city's housing predates 1947, and much of Washington Heights is in that group, so building water lines and risers are often original.
Breaks like those put a lot of water into a building very quickly, so the first hour is about extraction and keeping it out of the elevator pit and electrical rooms.
What Washington Heights calls are usually about
The work we're called for most uptown.
Emergency Water Removal
Garages, lobbies and lower levels extracted.
Co-op and Condo Water Damage
Multi-unit losses in co-op buildings.
Ceiling Leak Water Damage
Leaks from the apartment above.
Radiator Leak Water Damage
Steam leaks in winter.
Commercial Restoration
Ground-floor stores and businesses dried in stages.
Mold Remediation
Mold in lower levels that stayed wet.
How a Washington Heights building job runs
Call
Tell us where the water is and whether it's still coming.
Protect
Water kept out of the elevator pit and electrical rooms.
Extract
Lower levels, garages and apartments extracted.
Document
Records by unit and space for each insurer.
Dry and rebuild
Drying logged daily, then repairs.
Washington Heights restoration questions
What callers uptown ask most.
The line into the building is usually the owner's; a plumber repairs it. We deal with the water.
Yes, with records for each unit and the managing agent.
Yes, along with storage rooms and laundry rooms.
Yes, from 155th Street to Fort George and Hudson Heights.
We give an honest arrival time on the call, any hour.
Yes, dried in stages so they can reopen sooner.
By the time it reaches a basement it's handled as contaminated.
Water in your Washington Heights building?
Call and tell the super. We answer around the clock.