Storm Damage Restoration in Wellington, FL

Stop the sky first. Everything else is second.

A missing section of shingles in July is not a roofing inconvenience; it is a funnel aimed at your attic during the next afternoon storm. Our tarping work is mechanical, not hopeful: tarps anchored with furring strips and fasteners that hold in the next band of wind, edges sealed so driven rain cannot lift and pour under. Broken windows, sliders, and doors get boarded with plywood fitted to the opening, and damaged pool cages get secured. We photograph every opening before and after, because the condition of the property right after the storm matters to your claim file. Tarping is temporary by design. It buys the house dry days while the roofer and the adjuster do their parts.

Outages cause their own losses, usually discovered late.

A multi-day outage after a storm quietly creates a second round of damage. Sump and well pumps stop, so groundwater the pump normally holds back finds the low points. Air conditioning stops, indoor humidity climbs past the point where mold starts on walls, and a house that survived the storm dry can come out of a four-day outage with growth on its leather goods and closet contents. For seasonal homes in Palm Beach Polo and Olympia, an outage nobody witnesses is the worst version. When power returns, resist the urge to just run the AC and move on: if the house sat hot and humid for days, have it looked at. Catching it at the humidity stage is a small job. Remediating it a month later is not.

June through November, the village plans around the sky.

Wellington sits roughly fifteen miles inland, far enough that surge is not our problem and close enough that hurricane rain bands absolutely are. Our flooding is rain-driven: lakes and canals that rise over days, streets that pond, and ground so flat and saturated that water stands against slabs and garage doors. The equestrian calendar shapes the risk here. During the winter season the barns and estates around the show grounds are full and watched daily. Through storm season many sit quiet, so damage on an estate off Pierson Road can sit a week before anyone walks it. A pre-season walk-through, roof check, drain clearing, generator test, is the cheapest storm service there is.

Most storm losses are water losses at heart, and the deep drying protocol lives on our water damage restoration page. Belongings that got wet, from furniture to tack and documents, go through contents cleaning. Growth that appears in the weeks after a storm is handled under mold remediation.