Water Damage Restoration in Sunset, Tempe, AZ

Monsoon season runs June 15 through September 30, and a single microburst can drop inches of rain in under an hour — faster than the storm drains near the Broadway Curve can carry it away. Water sheets off the pavement, pools in the low spots, and pushes toward garages, thresholds, and any door that sits close to grade. Once it is inside, it soaks drywall from the bottom up and wicks under flooring.

Storm water is rarely clean. It carries street grime, oil, and whatever it crossed on the way in, which bumps it into Category 2 or 3 territory and rules out simply drying the carpet in place. We extract it, pull the contaminated porous materials, sanitize, and then dry the structure — the order matters, and skipping the sanitizing step is how a flooded room becomes a mold problem.

We know the low-lying streets on Sunset's side of the freeway and how fast they take on water when the drains near the interchange back up. That lets us prioritize the homes most likely to see intrusion first and get extraction going before the water has all night to soak in.

During one August storm we pulled several inches of muddy street water out of a Sunset garage that had already reached the interior step. Because we were minutes away off the same stretch of I-10, we extracted and sanitized before it climbed into the living space — and the homeowner kept their floors.