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.
Lehigh Acres took heavy wind damage from Ian — roof tile loss and structural damage was widespread across the community. Many Lehigh claims are still partially open; we frequently come in to finish work an out-of-state mitigation company started.
Our Lehigh Acres crew works across the full city — from Veterans Park, Lehigh Senior High, Mirror Lakes Golf Club — and we're familiar with how hurricane / storm damage scope changes between Lehigh North and Lehigh South.
Lehigh Acres disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022), Hurricane Irma (2017), repeated freshwater flooding. We were on the ground in this city for each event and know the local permitting + insurance landscape.
Lehigh Acres sits well inland of the Gulf and has no meaningful canal frontage, so the storm losses here aren't surge or tidal - they're wind. Ian in September 2022 hit Lehigh with sustained 90-110 mph gusts that lifted barrel tile, blew out garage doors, sheared off ridge vents, and turned thousands of attic spaces into wet boxes within hours. Irma in 2017 ran a similar profile at lower intensity. The 72-hour mitigation window after either kind of storm decides whether a Lehigh Acres claim pays clean or gets reduced for ongoing damage.
We pre-stage 6-mil reinforced tarps, ridge-cap rolls, and 5/8-inch CDX board-up panels before any named storm approaches. When wind drops below safe-work threshold, dispatch sequences by structural risk: a peeled corner of decking near Lehigh Senior High that's drawing rain straight into a master bedroom gets covered before a missing tile cluster off Sunshine Boulevard. Every pre-tarp condition is documented with drone photography - the carrier will ask whether the roof was pre-compromised, and the answer needs to be in the file with a timestamp. Tarps go down with 1x3 batten strips, not just self-adhered, because Lehigh thunderstorms in the weeks after a hurricane will lift any tarp not mechanically fastened.
Wind-driven rain at 90+ mph finds every gap the builder missed - failed ridge-vent gaskets, lifted barrel tile that re-seated visually but not mechanically, garage-door panel deflection that opened a temporary seam between header and frame. Water tracks down the truss top chord, soaks the top plate, runs the wall cavity, and shows up as a stain on the ceiling or upper corner of an interior wall two to seven days later. We thermal-image the attic deck within 48 hours of a storm, pin-meter the top plates from below, and pull saturated batt insulation before the cavity reads dry on the surface and saturated underneath. That order matters for the claim documentation.
Lehigh Acres rarely has NFIP flood claims - most of the city is Flood Zone X - but freshwater flooding from undersized stormwater capacity has affected sections of 33972 and 33974 in past events. After a federally declared disaster, a Lehigh homeowner may have an HO-3 wind claim, a FEMA Individual Assistance application, and rarely an NFIP claim running together. Each one wants different documentation. We produce a single damage assessment package - geotagged photos, moisture logs, wind-vs-water causation notes tied to NOAA wind data for the storm - that satisfies all three. That same package goes to NFIP's Proof of Loss inside the 60-day deadline when flood is in play.
The Lehigh Acres crew that ran the city through Ian still runs it. We know which 1990s subdivisions had concentrated tile loss, which streets in 33971 still have unfinished roof work three years later, and which carriers will fight the supplemental claim 18 months after closing. When the next storm forms in the Gulf, dispatch is already rolling before the cone narrows. That posture is what protects a Lehigh Acres homeowner here.
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 Lehigh Acres homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Lehigh Acres homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Lehigh Acres homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Lehigh Acres homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Lehigh Acres homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Lehigh Acres hurricane / storm damage crew dispatches across the full city — from Lehigh North, Lehigh South, Country Club, Eastwood, Mirror Lakes, Pinewood, Buckingham (border), covering ZIP codes 33971, 33972, 33973, 33974, 33976. Storm damage scope varies street by street in Lehigh Acres — our local crew knows which neighborhoods need which response first.
Lehigh Acres insurance carriers we work with: Citizens, mixed carrier base; flood insurance important for lower-elevation sections. 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:
Inland Lehigh Acres takes a beating from wind even though it avoids surge, and after Ian the demand for tarp work in 33971 and 33974 exceeded supply for weeks. We pre-stage 20x40 reinforced poly tarps, 2x4 furring strips, and cap nails before storm season so we can deploy without waiting on distributor restocks. For a typical hipped CBS roof near Lee Boulevard we'll do a furring-strip and cap-nail attachment rather than the FEMA Blue Roof three-batten method, because the secured-batten approach holds better through summer thunderstorms while you wait on a roofer.
Yes, even without active leaking. A tile roof near Mirror Lakes Golf Club that's lost tiles has exposed underlayment, and Florida underlayment is rated for short-term exposure only. The next afternoon thunderstorm will saturate the deck through micro-tears in the felt. We do an emergency patch with self-adhering modified bitumen membrane over the exposed areas, photograph the damage extensively for your wind claim, and recommend a full roofing assessment within 30 days. Delaying the patch turns a wind claim into a wind-plus-secondary-water claim, which carriers scrutinize harder.
That's the classic Lehigh Acres post-Ian dispute. Most Lehigh damage was wind-driven rain rather than rising flood water, but if the documentation isn't crystal clear, FEMA can call it wind and NFIP denies, while the private carrier calls it flood and the HO-3 denies. We document the water entry point precisely: roof breach, window failure, soffit penetration, all of which are wind-caused and covered by the HO-3, versus rising water through the slab or doors which would be flood. Engineering-level documentation often gets denied claims reopened. Many Lehigh homeowners gave up too early on Ian claims.
FEMA's Operation Blue Roof is a free federally administered tarping program activated after a presidential disaster declaration, like the one that followed Ian. It uses contracted crews and standardized tarps with a three-batten attachment. The work is free but the wait list runs weeks. Private emergency tarping, which we provide, is billed to your insurance under emergency mitigation and happens within 24-72 hours. For a Lehigh North home that's already taking on water, the private route gets the structure dry now. Blue Roof is a reasonable choice if your damage is minor and you can wait.
Inland Lehigh Acres lost power for 10-21 days during Ian across most of 33976 and the southern parts of 33972. LCEC restoration prioritizes critical infrastructure first, and Lehigh's distribution network has long radial feeders that take days to fully reenergize after major wind events. For homeowners with medical needs or food-storage concerns, an inlet box and interlock kit installed before storm season is sensible. We coordinate that work with a licensed electrician and obtain the Lee County permit. Doing it pre-storm is cheaper and faster than during a recovery period.
Free estimate. No pressure. Insurance billing handled. Call our Cape Coral line and we'll have a project manager in Lehigh Acres fast.
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