Water Damage Restoration in Bowie, MD

Why Choose Us for Water Damage Restoration in Bowie

Water Damage in Bowie: What We See

A large part of Bowie is the Levitt-built housing of the 1960s in Belair, Somerset, Whitehall and the other lettered sections: single-family houses on slabs or crawlspaces, now sixty years old. The water heaters, supply lines and appliance connections in those houses have been replaced once or twice, and the failures we are called to are usually a water heater letting go, a washing machine hose, or a supply line under a kitchen or bathroom sink that soaked the cabinet, the subfloor and the room below.

The newer sections, Northview, Fairwood, Woodmore and the subdivisions off Route 301 built from the 1980s onward, have full basements, and most are finished. Those are the basement floods: a failed sump pump in a heavy storm, a window well that overflowed, or a slab crack that let groundwater in. Carpet, pad, drywall and insulation to a height of two feet usually come out, and the basement is rebuilt once the slab reads dry. Some houses from the late 1970s through the mid 1990s in this part of the county were plumbed with polybutylene, and a failure in that pipe is a whole-house question, not a single repair.

Reconstruction after water damage that involves replacing drywall, electrical or plumbing is permitted through Prince George's County Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement. We identify what the rebuild needs and handle the permit as part of the scope.

Most Bowie claims run through a homeowner's policy. We document the moisture readings, photographs and the written reconstruction scope your adjuster needs to evaluate the work. We are a reconstruction contractor, not a public adjuster, and we do not negotiate the claim itself.