Water Damage Restoration in Superstition Springs, Mesa, AZ

The polybutylene window ran roughly from 1978 to 1995, and a share of Superstition Springs homes fall right inside it. Poly pipe and its plastic or copper fittings grow brittle over time — chlorinated city water attacks them from the inside — and failures tend to come suddenly, as a burst at a fitting rather than a slow weep. A burst line can put hundreds of gallons into a single-story home in minutes.

The rest of the housing stock is standard 1990s stucco-and-slab construction, which means once water is loose it spreads fast across tile and into drywall and baseboards. In Arizona's heat, wet drywall can start growing mold inside 24 to 48 hours, so the clock that matters most starts the moment the pipe lets go.

We know the area around Superstition Springs Center, the US-60 Superstition Freeway, Power Road, and Baseline Road — the tract streets and the golf-course edges of the Superstition Springs Golf Club. Far east Mesa is a real drive for a lot of Tempe companies; for us it is a straight shot out the 60.

A recent call was exactly the poly-pipe story: a fitting let go behind a laundry wall and flooded a hallway and two bedrooms before the homeowner got the main shut off. We extracted the same evening, dried the framing and slab, and stopped it well short of a mold job.