Water · Fire & smoke · Mold · Reconstruction
We extract the water, open what has to be opened, dry the structure down to a number we can prove, and hand you the readings. Then we rebuild what we took out. One company, start to finish.
What happens after you call
Wet framing starts growing mold in roughly 24 to 48 hours. Everything below is about getting ahead of that window, not about selling you a bigger job.
No drying starts while something is still leaking. Supply line, drain, roof, or a shower pan that was never sealed — we find it first.
Standing water out. Plastic up at the doorways so dust and spores stay in the work area instead of moving through your house.
We cut to clean material, not to a square footage picked in advance. Everything removed is photographed before it goes in the bag.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run until the framing meets a written standard. You get a reading every day until it does.
Service 01
Burst supply lines, failed water heaters, dishwasher and washing machine overflows, sewage backups, roof and window intrusion. The first day decides how bad this gets — wet framing starts growing mold in roughly 24 to 48 hours.
Not every wet floor is an emergency and not every job needs a week of equipment. If the water is clean, caught in the first hours, and the framing reads dry, we will say so and charge you for the visit rather than invent a dry-out.
Service 02
Anyone can set a fan down. Relative humidity by itself tells you almost nothing — warm air holds more water, so a hot room can read "dry" while the wall behind the tile is still soaked. We track the moisture actually leaving the air, and the moisture content of the wood itself, at marked points you can go back and check.
Photographs from a completed dry-out, not stock images.
| Day | Inlet | Outlet | Grain depression | Bottom plate | Stud | Subfloor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · 8:10 AM | 71°F / 62% | 84°F / 31% | 28 | 29.4 | 26.1 | 31.0 |
| 2 · 7:55 AM | 73°F / 54% | 86°F / 28% | 24 | 24.8 | 22.0 | 26.3 |
| 3 · 8:20 AM | 75°F / 47% | 87°F / 26% | 19 | 20.6 | 18.4 | 21.7 |
| 4 · 8:05 AM | 76°F / 41% | 88°F / 25% | 14 | 17.3 | 16.4 | 18.1 |
| 5 · 7:50 AM | 76°F / 36% | 88°F / 24% | 9 | 15.8 | 15.2 | 15.9 |
Tile set over plywood is a vapor barrier. So is a fiberglass shower pan. Water underneath cannot be measured and cannot be dried while they are in place, no matter how long equipment runs in the room. If the readings say the water is under there, the pan or the tile has to come out — and we will tell you that before you pay for a week of drying that cannot reach it.
Service 03
Most of what a fire ruins, it ruins after it is out. Soot is acidic and keeps etching metal, glass and finishes for as long as it sits there, and smoke odor moves into anything porous. Speed matters here for a different reason than with water.
If the heating system ran during or after the fire, soot is in the ducts, and every time the furnace kicks on afterward it redistributes the smell through the whole house. We check it rather than assume.
Service 04
Mold is a moisture problem wearing a costume. Kill every spore on a wall and leave the leak running and it is back in a month. The removal is most of the work; the chemical is the last ten percent.
Oregon does not license mold remediation. Anyone can print "certified" on a truck. What is enforceable is the Construction Contractors Board license, and ours is 258376 — look it up.
We do not use bleach. It does not penetrate wood, the water in it feeds what is left behind, and in a sealed bathroom it is a respiratory hazard for the crew. If someone quotes you a bleach treatment on framing, that is your answer about them.
Service 05
Most mitigation companies dry your house, hand you an invoice and leave you to find somebody else to close the wall. That handoff is where projects stall for months. We hold the Oregon residential general contractor endorsement, so the same company that opened it puts it back.
Mitigation and the rebuild are two different jobs with two different scopes, so they get two estimates. You can see exactly what each half costs instead of one number that hides the split, and you are free to take the rebuild elsewhere.
Nothing beyond the signed scope happens without a written change order. No approvals over the phone, in either direction.
Service 06
Plumbers fix the leak and walk away from a wet house. Mitigation firms dry it and walk away from a hole in the wall. We take either end, and we are straightforward about how that works.
That is the usual arrangement and it suits us. We are not trying to take mitigation work off companies who refer to us — the reconstruction is the part most of them would rather not staff for.
Where we work
If you're just outside this list, call anyway — if we can't get there fast enough to help, we'll say so rather than take the job.
Get in touch
If it is an emergency, call rather than email. The phone is answered around the clock; email gets picked up between jobs.