Anaheim started in 1857 as a grape colony on a grid beside the Santa Ana River and stayed a grove town until the 1950s, when it quadrupled in land area in two years and passed 100,000 people by 1960. The city that came out of that decade is mostly single-story ranch houses on concrete slabs, laid across the old orchards from the Buena Park line to the river, with the two-story hillside homes of Anaheim Hills added from 1972 on. Fifty square miles, three different kinds of house, and one water supply hard enough to pit copper.
Water finds these houses from below, through a pinhole in a slab line, and from the street, when a winter storm outruns the gutters. It almost never finds them from freezing, because it does not freeze here.
This site connects Anaheim homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the house and writes the scope from the readings, not from the doorway.
A warm patch on the tile and a water bill that jumped is a leak detection call, and the cleanup afterward is a slab leak cleanup. Street water that came in under the garage door during a January storm is winter storm flood cleanup. Gray water up the shower drain from a sixty-year-old cast-iron lateral is sewer backup cleanup, and the crew comes dressed for it.
The Anaheim Heritage Center at the downtown library holds the photographs from March 1938, when the Santa Ana River came out of its banks and put much of the Colony under water. That flood is why the Army Corps built Prado Dam upstream, finished in May 1941, and why the river has stayed in its channel through every storm since. Rebuild permits for plumbing, drywall, or wiring go through the City of Anaheim Building Division.
Call (657) 239-3689 and tell us which room is wet. An independent local water damage provider serving Anaheim takes it from there.
Standing water pulled off tile, carpet pad, and the concrete slab under them, followed by the first meter readings at every wall base.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until slab, studs, and drywall come back to dry in a closed-up Anaheim house.
The warm tile, the spinning meter, and the damp carpet traced to a pipe under the slab or inside a wall before anyone opens concrete.
Cleanup after hard water pitted a copper line under the slab, with the soaked flooring, cabinet bases, and lower drywall dried or removed.
Mud and street water pumped out of a garage or living room after an atmospheric river, and everything it touched sorted for drying or disposal.
Drying after a tank in the garage or a hallway closet let go, including the drywall behind the stand and the rooms on the other side of it.
Removal of water that came up through a shower drain or toilet from an aging cast-iron line, with contaminated flooring and drywall handled as such.
Attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after wind-driven winter rain found a cracked tile or a failed flashing on a north county roof.