A house fire does its worst damage after the flames are out. Soot is acidic and it keeps eating metal, grout and finishes for as long as it sits there, and in the Melbourne climate the water the fire department used starts growing mold in a shut-up house within days. So the work runs in a set order: make the building safe and weather-tight, get the water out, stabilize the soot before it etches anything else, then start cleaning. We carry that through the rebuild rather than handing you off to somebody else.
Brevard is a long thin county with the Atlantic on one side and the Indian River Lagoon down the middle, and the damage follows that geography. Out on the barrier island — Satellite Beach, Indialantic, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach — the usual problem is wind-driven rain finding a way in around window and door assemblies, on buildings where salt air has been working on flashing and fasteners for thirty years. On the mainland, from Palm Bay up through Rockledge, Cocoa and Titusville, it is block houses on slabs where a failed supply line spreads flat across the floor with nowhere to drain. And unlike most of the state, the worst of it is not always a hurricane — a November nor’easter that pushes onshore for three days puts more water through a beachside roof than a fast summer storm ever does.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Melbourne base at 715 North Dr, Suite #B and cover all of Melbourne — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Melbourne or read more about fire & smoke damage restoration.
