Flood Restoration in Port Moody

The flood starts at the uphill wall or the well and walks toward the glass. We chalk both ends, because the depth is not even. Laminate comes up from the wet wall inward. The cavity on that wall is opened enough to dry.

Pleasantside houses on the slope, when they have a walk-out, follow that outside-in order. A village basement with a drain does not. We will not use the walk-out script on a drain flood because both towns sit inside Port Moody.

The backup is dirty. Contained removal comes before the dry: pad, wet board at the bottom, and contents that cannot be cleaned. April Road houses on the older grid get that same category when the drain is the inlet.

We photograph the drain and the waterline on the laundry wall. A sump failure and a lateral backup can happen in one storm. If both ran, both are on the sheet. One word, "flood," is not a category.

Concrete buildings move water along a corridor or down a ramp, not through a crawl. We list locker contents and protect the path out. The strata process is part of the first day, because access stops the job faster than the pump does.

A stack into the suite below is a different inlet from the ramp. We keep them separate if they did not connect. Corridor slabs need air and time. They do not dry because the water was squeegeed once.

Storms off the inlet drive rain at exposed walls. If the floor got wet, the rooms it reached are in the flood. If only the wall cavity and the ceiling got wet, we treat the envelope and we say so.

That distinction changes what comes out of the house. A wet floor covering is a flood removal. A wet bay above a dry floor is a wall and a ceiling. College Park sees both, depending on the house and the exposure.