Water Damage

Many newer homes in Carmel and Fishers put the laundry room upstairs near the bedrooms. It’s a smart layout. Nobody misses hauling baskets up and down the stairs. But it also means the washing machine, with its water supply hoses and drain, sits directly over the...

Plenty of older homes around Indianapolis sit over a crawlspace instead of a basement. It’s out of sight, usually dark and tight, and most homeowners only go down there when something goes wrong. That’s exactly why a plumbing leak in a crawlspace can run for weeks...

Every July and August, Indianapolis-area homeowners find a spreading stain on a bedroom or hallway ceiling, check the weather history, find no rain, and start suspecting the roof anyway. The likelier suspect is humming right above the stain: the air conditioning...

Every spring, as snowmelt combines with the heavy rain systems that track across central Indiana from March through June, basements across the Indianapolis metro flood in a pattern that repeats year after year. The same homes flood repeatedly. The same neighborhoods...

In most cases, yes. If the water damage is contained to one area of the home, does not involve sewage or contaminated water, and the structure is sound, you can stay while the restoration process happens. The drying equipment is loud and the affected areas will be...