When Goose Creek, Turkey Creek or a king tide pushes water toward Hanahan homes, the mitigation team pumps it out, strips what it soaked and dries floors and framing to the IICRC S500 measure.
(888) 532-8921Flood water inside? Call for pumping
Flood water can hide live wiring, sharp debris and sewage, so children and pets stay away from it.
Turn off breakers for soaked rooms only when the panel stands in a dry spot you can reach without wading.
Capture the water height on walls, doors and furniture before anything is cleaned or shifted.
Move papers, electronics, photos and small rugs into a dry room or onto high shelves.
Hurricane and Storm Water Damage: the trade facts
Hanahan can flood several ways at once. University of South Carolina researchers describe a compound flood risk here: Goose Creek can spill over in king tides or hard rain, Turkey Creek has pushed into houses on Brookside Drive, and a number of neighborhoods sit beside tidal water that runs out to the Cooper River and Charleston Harbor. Anything that flows in from outdoors brings mud and bacteria with it, so the mitigation team handles it as Category 3 from the first visit.
In Hanahan, SC, storm water damage restoration typically runs $3,500 to $32,000. How high the water rose, how many rooms it reached, how much flooring and wallboard comes out and how long it sat set the total.
$3,500 to $8,500
$8,000 to $18,000
$16,000 to $32,000
Ranges are typical figures, not a quote. The category of water, the square footage, the material class and how fast drying started move the number most. The water damage cost calculator gives a closer range.
The tech who does the walkthrough finds the source and maps the moisture before equipment goes down, and the drying team keeps it running until the readings say dry.
The extraction crew clears pooled water from floors, carpet and pad.
The mitigation team cuts soaked wallboard and lifts the flooring the water reached.
Crew members scrub surfaces and apply an EPA-registered antimicrobial.
The drying team runs LGR units and air movers until readings reach the goal.
Clean supply water from a pipe can often be dried where it sits. Creek and tidal water cannot, since it carries silt and germs into every absorbent surface. The restoration crew measures how far moisture climbed, cuts above that height and keeps the studs and sill plates drying until they match a dry reference board.
The city lists the high tides of October 24 and 25, 2008, the October 2015 storm and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 among its severe floods, and Hurricane Irma in 2017 sent Turkey Creek back into Brookside Drive homes. Researchers add that small changes, like taking out a fence or widening a ditch, can shift where flood water goes, so the walkthrough covers every room the water could have reached.
Water that rises outdoors and enters the home is flood damage, which most homeowner policies leave out; it normally needs a separate flood policy. Rain driven through a storm-damaged roof is handled under other terms. Coverage depends on your policy, so check with your own insurer. For the same service in the main city, see storm water damage in Goose Creek, and the water extraction page explains the pumping step.
The Hanahan restoration crew covers ZIP 29410, from Tanner Plantation, Tanner Hall and Ibis Glade to Bowen Village and the Brookside Drive area along Turkey Creek.
The same service nearby: hurricane and storm water damage in Goose Creek, North Charleston, Charleston.
Yes, when it comes in from outdoors. It carries mud, bacteria and debris from the creek bank, the road and the yard, so it is handled as black water.
Rarely. Pad and most carpet that sat in outdoor flood water get hauled out, since no cleaning reaches deep enough into the fibers.
The mitigation team checks how high moisture climbed in the wallboard and cuts above it, commonly at two or four feet, so the cavity can breathe and dry.
Once tear-out is done, most homes finish in four to eight days. Deep water, dense materials and muggy weather add days, and the meters set the end date.
King tides can lift Goose Creek over its banks, and tidal water behind several neighborhoods rises with high tides and storm surge.
Yes, as soon as water gets inside. Crews across the region fill up after a hurricane, so an early call secures a sooner pumping slot.
Flood water in the house? Dispatch runs 24/7.
Outdoor water soaks pad and wallboard within hours. The extraction crew clears it and the drying team takes the house back to dry.