Martinez: a refinery, a sewage plant and water inside
Martinez carries two heavy industries at once. SOS Restoration of East Bay strips out the water and rebuilds the room. We answer in Spanish or English, and the estimate is free. A refinery and a sewage plant sit in town. Call (341) 220-0032.
Somebody answers and a van leaves. Looking is on us. CSLB #1131134 · IICRC #70194273
and the van is loaded before the call ends
the whole arc, from the first hour to the last coat
across Alameda and Contra Costa counties
IICRC #70194273
Did smoke get in with no fire?
Martinez is a mid-size town wrapped around heavy industry.
Refinery smoke can leave a smell without a fire.
The Martinez refinery caught fire on the first of February. Smoke and soot can reach a home with no flame of its own. We test what settled and clean it — a restoration job, not a repaint.
Who runs the city's water and sewer?
Contra Costa Water District, with Central San on sewage.
Martinez is on Contra Costa Water District, not EBMUD. Central San runs the sewer, and its 54-million-gallon-a-day plant sits right here in town. We call the right one before the water spreads.
What does a 1977 Martinez house add?
Lead and asbestos in more than half the stock.
58 percent of Martinez’s 15,178 homes predate 1980. The median home sits inside the lead-paint window that closed in 1978. We sample before opening a wall on a water job.
When should Martinez skip the crew?
When a quick spill dried and the wall reads dry.
Not every call is a job. A spill you caught fast and wiped up may need nothing. One reading of the wall behind decides it, and a dry number costs you nothing.
Who puts a house here back?
Same crew, water out to paint on.
No handoff to an outsider. IICRC #70194273 runs the drying and CSLB #1131134 the rebuild, matched to a 1977 home. Ask the dispatcher what your Martinez block needs.
Soot indoors with no fire. Ours?
Sometimes not. A refinery event outdoors is a claim question before it is a cleaning job.
The refinery fire on the first of February put material into houses that never burned. Document it before anybody wipes anything, because the wiping ends the evidence.
A 1977 house. What gets tested?
We sample first. Nine percent of Martinez was already standing in 1940.
Compound and flooring from that period still carry asbestos often enough to matter. A test costs a day. A contained removal costs a great deal more.
Which agencies serve Martinez?
Contra Costa Water District for supply, Central San for the sewer.
Two numbers for two failures. A backup at the outside cleanout is theirs to clear, and that call is free to make.
Is a refinery release our job?
Not at first. It is a claim question before it is a cleaning one.
Photograph what settled before anybody wipes a surface. Wiping removes the only proof that it was ever inside the house. Water that never reached the framing does not need us.
Water damage
Mold
Fire & smoke
Storm damage
Sewage cleanup
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Where our crews go
The county seat, on the Carquinez Strait, with a downtown of old wooden buildings and refinery neighborhoods around it. The building department for the unincorporated county sits here.
Rather write it than talk? Leave it here and we call you back.
The number is the part that matters. The rest just tells us which crew to send and how far up the road they are going.
Between a refinery and a sewage plant, Martinez calls are rarely simple, so call early. Dial (341) 220-0032 for the nearest crew.
Sewage, storm damage, mold, fire and smoke, water, and the reconstruction that follows them, for Oakland and the twenty-four East Bay cities around it. Any hour, any day. Se habla español.