Water Damage Restoration in Fort Lee, NJ

Fort Lee is a town of high-rises, co-ops and garden apartments stacked along the Palisades. REA Floors provides water damage restoration in Fort Lee, NJ, and most of the time that means a leak that started in another unit and ended up in yours.

Leaks travel down

In a high-rise, water follows the pipes, risers and gaps in the floor slab. A tub overflow on the 20th floor can show up as a stain on the 17th. The damage you can see is usually only part of it. We use moisture meters to map where the water went in your unit, behind the kitchen cabinets, under the floating floor and inside the wall cavity, and dry all of it, not just the wet spot on the ceiling.

Working inside a building

High-rise jobs come with rules: elevator reservations, protected hallways, work hours and a super or board who needs to know what’s happening. We work within them. When the water reached several units, we check each one and give the building a single point of contact. We also work with insurance companies, which matters when the unit owner, the upstairs neighbor and the building’s master policy are all involved.

Condo floors

Condo floors take a beating in a leak. Hardwood and parquet cup and lift, and floating floors trap water underneath. Floors are our specialty, so we dry what can be saved and repair or refinish it instead of replacing a whole unit’s floor.

Houses and businesses too

Away from the towers, Fort Lee has single and two-family homes, plus offices and shops on Main Street and Lemoine Avenue. For those, see water damage restoration and commercial restoration.

Coytesville and the houses on the hill

Not all of Fort Lee is towers. Coytesville and the streets off Linwood Avenue are full of single and two-family homes, many with basements and older plumbing. For those, a burst pipe or a failed water heater looks much like it does anywhere else in Bergen County, and we handle it the same way: water out, dried, rebuilt.