Water damage on the island city of Alameda
SOS Restoration of East Bay works Alameda, the island across the estuary from Oakland. We pump out the water, then rebuild. The crew speaks Spanish too; the look is free. Half its homes were built before 1970, old enough to matter. 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
Why does Alameda's 1966 median matter?
An island built partly on fill drains and dries unlike the mainland.
Because two in three Alameda homes predate 1980.
68.8 percent of the island’s 32,320 homes stood before 1980, nearly a third before 1940. Since lead paint left the market in 1978, that median house falls inside the sampling window. A water job here opens with a test.
Who serves Alameda's water?
EBMUD, for the tap and the sewer both.
The East Bay runs on five water agencies, and Alameda draws on EBMUD. Naming the right one saves the first hour, which is the hour that decides whether the floor is saved.
The ground is fill. Does that change things?
Yes; made ground holds and moves water in odd ways.
Much of the island is bay fill, which stays damp and shifts under load. Alameda County also carries a soft-story retrofit law. On the wrong building that rule reaches the permit for the repair.
When does an Alameda home not need us?
When a meter reads dry and nothing is hidden.
A small surface spill you caught in minutes, wiped and dried, needs no crew. If the wall behind it reads dry, we say so and leave. The call and the reading are free either way.
Who closes an Alameda wall back up?
The same crew that dried it, under both our licenses.
No stranger for the second half. IICRC #70194273 covers the drying, CSLB #1131134 the rebuild, matched to a 1960s island house. Ask the dispatcher what your island block needs.
Which pipe is never the owner's?
The main under the street is EBMUD’s, and the island’s storm drains are the city’s.
Call them before anyone else when it surfaces outside. We start at the fixture, once it has come up inside and soaked something that holds it.
Does a 1966 house change the work?
It does. The island holds 32,320 homes and a third of them predate 1940.
That puts the median house inside the window where paint is presumed to hold lead. We sample before we open anything, and the sample is not a formality.
The water rises from below. Why?
Alameda is an island, and shallow groundwater sits close to the surface across much of it.
A wet slab here does not always mean a broken pipe above it. We meter the floor and the air separately, because those two numbers tell different stories.
What is not ours on the island?
Shallow groundwater under the slab is not a leak, and not a job.
Sixty percent of the shallow water here already sits near the surface. If the meter reads the ground and not a pipe, you do not need us.
Water damage
Mold
Fire & smoke
Storm damage
Sewage cleanup
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Where our crews go
An island, with a lagoon through the middle and a water table that sits just under the crawlspaces. Old Victorians on the east end, former base housing on the west, and a tube and a handful of bridges tying it to Oakland.
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.
Fill ground hides water well, so read the island slab early. Call (341) 220-0032 and a crew crosses the estuary.
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.