Water Damage Restoration in Camelot Village, Tempe, AZ

A lot of Camelot Village's original ranch homes still cool with a roof-mounted evaporative (swamp) cooler, and those units are a quiet water risk. The sheet-metal pan that holds the recirculating water sits in the sun for decades and eventually rusts through. When it goes, it does not just drip — it drains the reservoir and the line feeding it right onto the roof deck and down into the attic.

From the attic the water tracks along the ceiling joists, soaks the insulation, and stains or collapses drywall a room or two away from the cooler itself, so the damage is not always where you would expect. Because these coolers run hardest in summer, a slow leak can feed mold in the attic within a couple of days. We dry the attic and ceiling, pull the ruined insulation, and check the roof penetration so it is watertight.

We work central Tempe and the 85282 blocks around Camelot Village every week — the streets off Southern Avenue, McClintock Drive, and Rural Road — and we know the ranch rooflines and where those cooler drains and supply lines run.

A Camelot Village job from last summer: a rusted-out cooler pan drained into an attic and soaked a bedroom ceiling before anyone noticed the stain. We dried the attic framing, removed the wet insulation, saved most of the ceiling, and pointed the owner toward sealing the roof curb so it would not leak again.