Our Work
Recent water damage restoration projects.
Pipe burst, hurricane surge, slab leak, AC overflow, or roof leak — water damage is a clock. Every hour you wait, the mold pressure doubles. Our crew dispatches 24/7 with truck-mounted extraction, structural drying, and moisture mapping. Direct insurance billing.
The two things insurance adjusters look for in a water claim: was the mitigation prompt, and was it documented? We win both. Trucks roll within 1-2 hours of your call (faster from whichever of our two offices is closer). Daily moisture readings, photo logs, and equipment counts go to your adjuster in real time.
Sanibel sits low and was hit hard by Hurricane Ian's surge. Sanibel waterfront homes are still in rebuild status three years later. Our Sanibel work involves long-cycle reconstruction where original mitigation was partial or insurance claims required re-opening.
Our Sanibel crew works across the full city — from Sanibel Lighthouse, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Bowman's Beach, Periwinkle Place, Sanibel-Captiva Causeway, Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum — and we're familiar with how water damage restoration scope changes between Sanibel Bayou and Gulf Ridge.
Sanibel disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022 — barrier island devastation), Hurricane Charley (2004), repeated tropical impacts. Multi-storm cumulative moisture damage is common here — we untangle which damage came from which storm in our insurance documentation.
A burst supply line in a Periwinkle Place condo and a reopened Ian surge claim on West Gulf Drive are both on our schedule this month, and they are not the same job. Sanibel sits low on a barrier island, took 10-15 ft of surge through the September 2022 eyewall, and lost the Sanibel-Captiva Causeway for weeks. Many waterfront homes were dried partially, closed too fast, or never fully scoped — and Citizens, NFIP, and Wright Flood are still working those files.
When we walk a long-cycle reopened claim near Bowman's Beach or off East Gulf Drive, the moisture meter alone tells us nothing. Saltwater leaves the wall but the chlorides stay in the gypsum, in the bottom plates, and in the OSB sheathing behind the rim joist. We run AgNO3 chloride strip tests on cut-outs before signing off on drying-in-place. If the strip turns positive at 24 inches above the documented Ian high-water line, the drywall comes out — independent of what the pin meter says. That is the only way a reopened claim survives a desk-review adjuster three years out.
Most post-Ian Sanibel rebuilds went up on raised pilings under V-zone elevation requirements — finished floor 14-16 ft above grade, breakaway ground-level enclosures, the storage area below the living envelope. Surge from a future storm hits the substructure first, soaking pile sleeves and saturating any unconditioned utility chase. Standard IICRC S500 drying schedules underestimate the time those enclosed substructure spaces need. We run desiccant dehus, not refrigerant, when ambient dew points stay above 70F off the Gulf — which is most of the year on Sanibel.
A Sanibel homeowner whose Ian claim was paid in 2023 and reopened in 2025 has a documentation problem before they have a damage problem. Citizens wants to see continuous moisture history, NFIP wants surge-line evidence tied to the original Proof of Loss, and the carrier may have appointed a new adjuster who never saw the property dry. We rebuild that file from the structure outward — current chloride readings, current cavity moisture, current decay patterns matched to the 2022 staining elevation — so the supplemental scope is defensible line by line in Xactimate.
Material logistics on Sanibel run through one causeway and a 35 mph speed limit through the J.N. Ding Darling NWR corridor. We stage dehumidifiers, extraction equipment, and reconstruction materials on the island during long-cycle jobs so the crew is not losing two hours per day to causeway runs. One project manager carries the file from the first reopened-claim walk-through through the final dry standard and into the rebuild. That is how a three-year-old Ian claim actually closes.
Truck-mounted vacuum extraction of standing water. Carpet pad pulled. Hardwood floors immediate-action drying if salvageable.
Commercial air movers + dehumidifiers run 3-5 days. Daily moisture readings logged. Infrared imaging catches hidden cavity moisture.
Drywall replacement, baseboards, paint, flooring, and finish work. Single-crew handoff — same team that mitigated rebuilds.
For Sanibel homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Sanibel homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Sanibel homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Sanibel homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Sanibel homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Sanibel water damage restoration crew dispatches across the full city — from Sanibel Bayou, Gulf Ridge, Sanibel East End, Sanibel West End, Periwinkle Way corridor, Sanibel Captiva Road, Bowman's Beach, Beachview Estates, covering ZIP codes 33957. Each Sanibel neighborhood has its own building stock and water-damage signature — we adapt scope by construction era and substrate.
Sanibel insurance carriers we work with: Citizens Coastal, high-value carriers, NFIP V/VE zones. 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:
Yes. A large share of our Sanibel water-damage work is long-cycle Ian re-openings west of Tarpon Bay Road, where original mitigation was partial or hidden saturation surfaced after drywall closeup. We document the new moisture pattern with thermal imaging and pinless meters tied to the original Xactimate sketch, then issue a supplemental scope to your NFIP, Citizens, or Wright Flood adjuster. On V-zone elevated builds near Sanibel Lighthouse and Bowman's Beach, we coordinate with your public adjuster so the supplemental ties cleanly to the original FEMA Proof of Loss rather than triggering a duplicate claim.
We run silver nitrate (AgNO3) chloride strip testing on the affected substrate. A milky precipitate confirms residual chlorides from Gulf or Sanibel Bayou surge water; clean strips point to potable plumbing. This matters because chloride-contaminated framing and gypsum must be removed under S500 Category 3 protocols rather than dried in place, and salt-laden steel fasteners or hurricane straps need disclosure to your structural engineer. On East Gulf Drive elevated builds we typically test the bottom plate, sheathing, and any fastener accessible at the band joist before recommending a dry-out versus selective demo path.
An undetected supply-line leak in a closed-up Sanibel seasonal home almost always shifts from Category 1 to Category 2 or 3 by the time it's discovered, because warm cabinet cavities with no air movement incubate microbial growth fast. We treat the affected zone as contaminated, contain under 6-mil poly with negative air, remove saturated cabinetry and substrate, and dry to EMC matched against an outdoor reference taken near the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum. Expect 7-14 days of dry-out plus a clearance air sample before rebuild, and a separate Coverage A versus Coverage B split on your carrier estimate.
NFIP and private flood carriers like Wright Flood pay both mitigation and rebuild, but the rebuild scope is constrained by the FEMA 50% rule on V-zone properties south of the Sanibel-Captiva Causeway. We model the depreciated structure value against your contractor estimate before scoping finishes, because exceeding 50% triggers full code-compliance elevation. On Gulf Ridge homes that already sit above current BFE, we usually have headroom; on older Sanibel Bayou ground-level CBS structures, we sometimes recommend phasing the rebuild across two policy years to stay under threshold.
Under normal conditions we cross the Sanibel-Captiva Causeway with a standard truck-mount and air mover load within 90 minutes of dispatch from our Fort Myers staging yard. During declared emergencies, causeway access is restricted to credentialed contractors and residents, so we maintain pre-staged equipment on-island near Periwinkle Way during named-storm windows. For loss-of-use claims, we document causeway closure timestamps from Lee County DOT directly into the file, which matters when carriers question delayed mitigation response under the duty-to-mitigate clause in your policy.
Free estimate. No pressure. Insurance billing handled. Call our Cape Coral line and we'll have a project manager in Sanibel fast.
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