Our Work
Recent hurricane & storm damage projects.
When a named storm hits SWFL, the first 72 hours are board-up, tarp, and water mitigation. The next 6 months are insurance documentation, mold prevention, and rebuild. We handle all of it — Ian-tested, IICRC certified, two SWFL offices for fast dispatch.
Hurricane work is a sequence: secure, mitigate, dry, document, remediate, rebuild. Skip a step and your insurance claim suffers or mold takes over. We run the full sequence and document every step the way adjusters want it.
Fort Myers took heavy wind damage from Ian but less direct surge than Cape Coral. McGregor and downtown Fort Myers saw widespread tree damage, roof loss, and downed power lines. Many Fort Myers claims are still partially open three years later — we frequently come in to finish what an out-of-state mitigation company started and abandoned.
Our Fort Myers crew works across the full city — from Edison & Ford Winter Estates, Downtown River District, Centennial Park, JetBlue Park (Red Sox spring training), Bell Tower Shops, McGregor Boulevard — and we're familiar with how hurricane / storm damage scope changes between Downtown River District and McGregor Boulevard.
Fort Myers disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022 — significant), Hurricane Irma (2017), historic 1926 Miami hurricane. We were on the ground in this city for each event and know the local permitting + insurance landscape.
Fort Myers took heavy wind and rain from Ian on September 28, 2022, and a smaller but still serious surge push up the Caloosahatchee into the Downtown River District and Centennial Park waterfront. Irma in 2017 dropped trees across McGregor; the historic 1926 Miami hurricane is the documented worst-case in the city's records. Three years after Ian, we still re-open files abandoned by out-of-state mitigation crews that pulled out once FEMA money slowed — and our re-opens are usually larger than the original claim should have been.
High-rise board-up in Fort Myers is not the same job as a single-family tarp. Crane access along First Street and McGregor is constrained, condo association rules govern exterior penetrations, and any plywood install on a 12th-floor balcony needs both engineering sign-off and a building-management coordination plan. We pre-stage shrink-wrap, 6-mil reinforced tarps, and 5/8-inch CDX panels at the Fort Myers dispatch before any named storm makes landfall, and we work the association board chain in parallel with the homeowner so the install does not get blocked at the lobby. Drone photography documents pre-existing roof and balcony condition before any panel goes on — adjusters at Citizens and Heritage ask for it.
Surge that pushes up the Caloosahatchee reaches the McGregor riverfront, the Edison & Ford Winter Estates seawall, and the Centennial Park waterfront before it dissipates inland. That water is Category 3 by IICRC default — saltwater, sewage, and substrate contamination. We cut drywall to a documented inspection height (typically 24 inches above the high-water line, marked on every stud bay), pull saturated insulation, and stand up dehus before mold pressure can build. Inland Fort Myers neighborhoods off SR-82 and around Gateway typically get a dry-out plus targeted roof or window repair — completely different scope, completely different invoice.
A McGregor riverfront or Downtown River District owner often runs a Citizens or Heritage HO-3 claim, an NFIP flood claim, and a FEMA Individual Assistance application in parallel after a federally declared disaster. Each one requires different documentation. We build one assessment package — geotagged photos, room-by-room moisture logs, depth-of-flood markers tied to the FEMA Flood Zone designation (AE along the river, X farther inland), and an Xactimate-compatible scope — that satisfies all three. That same package is what gets the NFIP Proof of Loss in under the 60-day deadline.
Ian-claim re-opening is its own line of work in Fort Myers. We pull the prior mitigation file, identify what the previous crew skipped (almost always cavity drying, almost always HVAC inspection), and rebuild the supplemental documentation that gets the carrier back to the table. The crew that worked Fort Myers through Ian still works Fort Myers — that continuity is what turns a stalled three-year-old claim into a paid scope and a finished rebuild.
First 48 hours: roof tarp, window board-up, debris removal, water mitigation start. Property secured against rain and intrusion.
Structural drying, moisture mapping, daily photo logs, equipment counts, content inventory. Everything an insurance adjuster needs.
Roof, drywall, paint, stucco, flooring, fixtures. Hurricane-code compliant rebuilds. Same crew that mitigated does the rebuild.
For Fort Myers homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Fort Myers homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Fort Myers homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Fort Myers homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Fort Myers homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Fort Myers hurricane / storm damage crew dispatches across the full city — from Downtown River District, McGregor Boulevard, Iona, San Carlos Park, Gateway, Whiskey Creek, Cypress Lake, College Parkway, Pelican Preserve, Edison Park, covering ZIP codes 33901, 33907, 33912, 33913, 33916, 33919, 33966, 33967. Storm damage scope varies street by street in Fort Myers — our local crew knows which neighborhoods need which response first.
Fort Myers insurance carriers we work with: Citizens, full carrier mix; large insurance broker network in downtown. We bill direct on most claims and document to adjuster standards from the first call.
Same crew, same standards — we cover the surrounding cities too:
High-rise board-up after a Fort Myers event like Ian is not residential plywood and screws. Above the third floor, wind loading requires engineered panel systems anchored to existing impact-frame channels, with documented attachment patterns the structural engineer can sign off on. We coordinate with the association's engineer of record, stage materials through the freight elevator with the manager's approval, and provide signed daily logs the master-policy adjuster needs for the loss file. Temporary dry-in is sequenced so units stay habitable while permanent glazing is on order, which often runs months post-storm.
Surge along McGregor Blvd from the Caloosahatchee is flood, not wind, and Florida HO-3 policies from Citizens, Florida Peninsula, and Tower Hill exclude it. It routes to NFIP under a separate flood policy with its own adjuster, deductible, and scope rules. We write a split scope: wind-driven rain and roof damage to the homeowner's carrier, surge waterline and contents to NFIP. The waterline is documented photographically per FEMA guidance because NFIP pays differently above and below the line, and substantial-damage thresholds may trigger Lee County floodplain compliance rebuild requirements.
Downtown River District and waterfront owners need an Elevation Certificate on file, time-stamped pre- and post-storm photos showing the waterline, a contents inventory with serial numbers where applicable, and the Proof of Loss form submitted within NFIP's 60-day window unless extended by FEMA bulletin. If cumulative damage exceeds 50 percent of pre-storm market value, Lee County floodplain administration may classify it as substantial damage, which triggers elevation or floodproofing requirements on rebuild. We flag that threshold early so the owner does not commit to a repair scope that crosses it unintentionally.
After Ian, we saw thousands of Fort Myers roofs tarped poorly with felt staples and standard blue poly that failed in the first afternoon thunderstorm. Our sequence uses 6-mil reinforced poly anchored with 1x3 furring strips and ring-shank nails into structural decking, lapped uphill, with all penetrations sealed. On tile roofs along McGregor we shore broken battens before tarping so the underlayment isn't punctured further. Interior moisture mapping starts the same visit, because secondary water damage from a failed tarp becomes a much larger reconstruction scope than the original wind claim.
Florida Statute 627.70132 currently requires notice of a hurricane claim within one year of landfall, with supplemental and reopened claims within 18 months. That said, Citizens, Florida Peninsula, and Tower Hill all process Fort Myers claims faster and with better adjuster availability in the first 30 days. We recommend filing within 72 hours of safe re-entry with preliminary photos, then submitting the documented scope after a complete inspection. Late filings invite scrutiny on whether damage was storm-caused or pre-existing, particularly on older McGregor Blvd roofs near end of service life.
Free estimate. No pressure. Insurance billing handled. Call our Cape Coral line and we'll have a project manager in Fort Myers fast.
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Bonita Springs, FL 34135
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