Start with conditions, not a product
Getting water out of a Fort Wayne home is only the start -- how long it sat, whether it reached wiring, and how far it traveled into porous material set the real scope.
Build a complete scope
- Standing water versus water already soaked into materials
- Contents and flooring cleared from the extraction zone
- Extraction equipment matched to the flooring type
- Moisture readings confirming the space is dry
- What's excluded if water returns later
Fort Wayne context
Fort Wayne's location at the meeting point of the St. Marys, St. Joseph, and Maumee Rivers has shaped its flood history since the fort that gave the city its name was built there in 1794. All three rivers can rise rapidly after heavy rain or spring snowmelt, and the city's flat terrain and heavy clay soils hold that water near the surface once it arrives. The March 1982 flood was severe enough that the city relocated some of the most vulnerable homes and businesses and built flood-absorbing parkland along the rivers -- work that still shapes how Fort Wayne responds to water damage today.