A true flood — whether it's storm water sheeting off the foothills, a post-wildfire debris flow pushing mud through your doors, or a second-story pipe failure that came down through the whole house — is more than a wet floor. It's a multi-room recovery involving extraction, mud and debris removal, controlled demolition of unsalvageable materials, sanitizing, and days of monitored drying. We manage the entire process so you have one crew and one point of contact from the first pump to the final moisture check.
Inland Empire floods have a personality all their own. Our summers are hot and dry, then a few intense winter storms drop a season's worth of rain in a matter of hours — more than the ground and storm drains can absorb. Add the burn scars above the Cajon Pass and in the San Bernardino Mountains, and that runoff turns into fast-moving debris and mud flows that can bury a foothill home's lower level. We've dried out homes and businesses after all of it, and we know how our region's water moves once it's inside your walls.
What's included
- Large-loss water extraction
- Mud & debris-flow removal
- Controlled tear-out of unsalvageable materials
- Antimicrobial cleaning & sanitizing
- Contents protection & pack-out/pack-back
- Commercial-grade structural drying
- Category 3 'black water' protocols
- Insurance documentation & direct billing
What full flood cleanup involves
After extracting the standing water — and shoveling out any mud and debris a hillside flow left behind — we identify what can be dried in place and what has to go. Saturated drywall, insulation, and swollen laminate often can't be saved and are removed to expose the framing and slab so they can dry. We then clean and sanitize every affected surface, which is critical when flood water is contaminated, before positioning drying equipment.
Throughout, we protect and, when necessary, pack out your belongings so they're not sitting in a wet, muddy environment while the structure dries.
Winter flash floods and post-wildfire debris flows
Homes below the foothills, in the Verdemont and Arrowhead Farms areas, and anywhere downhill of a recent burn scar are the ones we see flood most often. When a wildfire strips the vegetation off a slope, there's nothing left to hold the soil, so the first big winter storm sends water, ash, rock, and mud racing downhill — a debris flow that hits far harder than rain alone.
Outside flood water and debris-flow mud are almost always Category 3 'black water' that can carry sewage, ash, chemicals, and bacteria, so they demand full sanitizing, not just drying. We treat every storm flood and mud flow as a contamination event first and a water event second, because that's what keeps your family safe after the water's gone.
Getting your home — or business — back
Our goal is to take you from 'everything is ruined' to a clean, dry, sanitized structure ready for rebuild. We coordinate the drying, document the loss for your insurer, and can connect you with reconstruction so the drywall, flooring, and paint go back exactly as they were.
For businesses along the I-10 and I-215 corridors, we work around your hours and prioritize the areas that get you operating again fastest.