Professional water damage crew
Water damage restoration in Kennesaw, GA
A supply line lets go in the night. A basement fills after a hard rain. A pipe freezes in the crawlspace and splits when it thaws. We handle leaks, burst pipes, flooded basements and crawlspaces, storm water, sewage, and the mold that follows when wet material sits too long.
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What are you seeing in your house?
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10 water services
Water removal Kennesaw homes and businesses call us for
Ten services, one crew. Choose the closest match, or call and describe what you see.
Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water and soaked carpet, out fast.
View service →02Structural Drying
Walls, subfloors and framing you cannot see into.
View service →03Flooded Basement Cleanup
After heavy rain or a failed sump pump.
View service →04Crawlspace Water Removal
Standing water over red clay.
View service →05Ceiling & Drywall Water Damage
Stains, sags and leaks from above.
View service →06Sewage Backup Cleanup
Category 3 water. Keep people away.
View service →07Storm & Flash Flood Cleanup
Rain through doors, windows and roofs.
View service →08Commercial Water Damage
Offices, shops and warehouses.
View service →09Mold Removal
After water, before it spreads.
View service →10Frozen & Burst Pipe Cleanup
Contain it, then dry what it reached.
View service →24/7Not sure which one?
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(678) 940-0778 →Kennesaw Mountain ridge to creek and where the runoff goes
The summit is 1,808 feet and the city sits at 1,089, so rain near the top has about 700 feet of fall before town. Lots at the foot of a slope take what the lots above shed.
Sources: Kennesaw Mountain, summit elevation (also stated by the National Park Service in its park history); Kennesaw city elevation.
Start to finish
How a job runs
Four simple steps, from the first call to a dry house.
Call us
Tell us what happened and where you are. That is all we need to start.
We stop the damage
A crew finds the source, stops the spread and pumps out the water.
We dry and clean up
Equipment dries the structure, and we remove what is ruined and clean the area.
We repair and finish
Once it reads dry, we repair what the water damaged, such as drywall, paint and flooring, and walk the finished room with you.
What to do after a flood
Flooded house in Kennesaw? Do this first
The first hour decides how much of the house you keep.
- Stop the water if you can. Find the main shutoff (a valve in the crawlspace or garage, or the meter box at the street) and close it. If the water is coming from outside, skip this and move to step 2.
- If water is near outlets, power strips or the panel, turn off the breaker for that area from a dry spot. If you have to stand in water to reach the panel, do not. Call us and the power company.
- Take photos and video of the water line and the source. Your insurer will ask.
- Lift what you can off wet floors. Put foil under furniture legs on wet carpet.
- Call (678) 940-0778. The sooner extraction starts, the more flooring and drywall you keep.
What not to do
- Do not run a household vacuum on standing water.
- Do not turn the heat up to dry the room. Warm, wet air helps mold more than it helps drywall.
- Do not walk through sewage water or let children and pets into it.
- Do not wait a few days to see if it dries. Wet drywall and pad can start growing mold within a day or two.
Kennesaw water-damage calendar and which month brings which kind of call
Cold months bring split pipes, warm months bring storm water. Temperatures are for the Atlanta airport, about 28 miles southeast of Kennesaw.
Coldest-night figures are 1991–2020 normals. Storm-month grouping is the general north Georgia pattern, not a count of claims.
Sources: NOAA 1991–2020 normals for Atlanta, as tabulated on Wikipedia; NWS Peachtree City, Epic Floods of 2009.
Why water damage repair in Cobb County starts with the ground
Most of the houses we work in around Kennesaw sit on Piedmont red clay. After a long rain the soil beside a foundation stays saturated, and the water looks for the lowest opening: a wall joint, a crawlspace vent, a window well, a slab crack.
Many Kennesaw subdivisions went up in the 1980s through the 2000s, and many have crawlspaces with water lines in vented, uninsulated space. That is fine in July and a problem on the second night of a hard freeze. Add Kennesaw Mountain shedding runoff onto the lots below and the Noonday Creek basin collecting what the neighborhoods send downhill, and you get our mix of calls: wet basements, wet crawlspaces and split lines.
Housing age: a third-party demographic site lists 1998 as Kennesaw's median year built (Point2Homes, which does not name its Census vintage). Treat the 1980s–2000s range as a general description.
What is under a Kennesaw yard, top to bottom
Rain sinks through the topsoil, then stalls on the dense clay and moves sideways toward your foundation. This is a schematic, not a survey of any lot.
What the soil survey says. The USDA description of the Cecil series, a common Piedmont soil, lists a reddish subsoil of 35 to 60 percent clay, formed from rock weathered in place, with saprolite deep and bedrock very deep. We have not confirmed the mapped series for any Kennesaw address, so depths are left off.
Flood and freeze history that still shows up in today's calls
- September 15–22, 2009. The NWS counted 79 river gauges above flood stage after rain that peaked September 20–21, with 21.03 inches in 24 hours in Douglas County. Noonday Creek at Woodstock crested at 19.66 feet on September 21, against a flood stage of 10 feet. Today: a lot that drains toward a creek can fill in a bad week, not just an average one.
- January 20–21, 1985. Atlanta's airport dropped to −6°F and −8°F on those two mornings. Today: crawlspace lines in 1980s and 1990s houses have rarely been tested against a night that cold.
- December 2022, the Christmas weekend freeze. The airport reported 8°F on Christmas Eve, the coldest the city had been since January 2014, after three days of sub-freezing weather. Cobb County reported hundreds of homes and businesses with burst-pipe damage, mostly found after the thaw. Today: a pipe can split on the coldest night and show nothing until the thaw.
Sources: NWS Peachtree City, 2009 flood anniversary; NWS crest table; Atlanta climate extremes; Atlanta News First, Dec. 24, 2022; GPB, Dec. 27, 2022.
Flooded basement cleanup Kennesaw, GA, and the towns around it
Our office is at 3525 Busbee Pkwy in Kennesaw. In town we work around Town Center, Kennesaw State University, downtown Kennesaw by the Southern Museum, Barrett Pkwy, both sides of I-75 and I-575, and the neighborhoods that border Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
- Acworth: lake-edge lots along Lake Acworth and Lake Allatoona.
- Marietta: the county seat, with older houses near the Square.
- Woodstock: Cherokee County, with creeks that rose fast in 2009.
- Fair Oaks: a small unincorporated community just south of Marietta.
- Emerson: Bartow County, at the edge of Lake Allatoona and Red Top Mountain.
- Smyrna: Market Village, Nickajack Creek country and a mix of old ranches and new townhomes.
What wet drywall and carpet drying costs
Planning ranges from published cost guides, adjusted for access and time.
| Item | Planning range | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Clean-water mitigation (supply line, appliance) | $3.00–$5.00 per sq ft | Time before discovery, floor type |
| Gray water (washer, dishwasher drain) | $4.00–$7.00 per sq ft | Whether it sat for more than a day |
| Sewage (category 3) | $7.00–$12.00 per sq ft | Porous materials that must be removed |
| Drywall replacement after drying | $1.50–$3.00 per sq ft, separate | Wall height, texture, paint |
| Example: 300 sq ft finished basement, clean supply line, found within the first day | $1,650–$3,700 before repairs | See the calculator |
Run your own numbers in the water damage cost calculator, the mold removal cost calculator, or use the frozen and burst pipe checklist before the next cold night. Planning range only. Your real number comes from an on-site moisture check and written scope. Call (678) 940-0778.
Sources: Angi water damage cost guide; Fixr water damage restoration cost; HomeAdvisor.
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Questions we get on the phone
Will you work with my insurance company?
We document the water, the damage and the drying with photos and moisture readings, and we give you the paperwork your adjuster asks for. Coverage is decided by your policy and your insurer. Sudden events like a burst pipe are treated differently from slow leaks, so say which one it is when you file.
How fast can someone get here?
Our emergency line is answered 24 hours. Give us your address and we will give you an arrival window on that call. Traffic on I-75 and I-575 changes it, so we do not promise a clock time before we know where you are.
Can I dry it myself with box fans?
For a small spill on a hard floor, yes. For wet pad, wet drywall or anything wet longer than a day, fans just move damp air around. Meters show what is still wet.
How soon does mold start?
Wet drywall, pad and wood can begin growing mold within about one to two days if they stay wet and warm. Georgia summers speed that up. That is why we start drying right away instead of waiting for an insurance visit.
What if the water is from the toilet or a sewer line?
Treat it as unsafe and stay out of it. Sewage water carries bacteria, and porous materials it touched are usually removed instead of dried. See our sewage backup cleanup page.
Do you do the repairs too?
Yes. After the water is out and the structure reads dry, we repair what it damaged, such as drywall, paint, flooring and trim, so one company handles the job from the first call to the finished room. Plumbing, roofing and grading are separate trades, and we tell you when your problem needs one.
Do you come to Acworth, Marietta and Woodstock?
Yes. We also cover Fair Oaks, Emerson and Smyrna. Each town has its own page with local notes on housing and water. Start with Acworth, Marietta or Woodstock.
Water in the house? Call the 24-hour line: (678) 940-0778