Service areas · DeKalb County
Mold, water & storm restoration in Decatur
Decatur's charm is its age. The neighborhoods that draw people here — Oakhurst, Winnona Park, the MAK Historic District, College Heights — are lined with Craftsman bungalows and cottages built roughly between 1920 and the 1960s, sitting under one of the densest tree canopies in the metro. Those houses were built beautifully and built differently: pier-and-beam crawlspaces, unfinished stone or brick basements, plaster walls, and drainage designed for a century ago. Restoration work in Decatur is mostly about respecting that construction while drying it out — and about the trees, which give the city its shade and its storm claims.
Local knowledge
What Decatur homes actually deal with
- Damp crawlspaces under the bungalows — vented crawls pull in humid Georgia summers, condensation wets joists and subfloor, and the first symptom upstairs is usually a musty room or cupping hardwoods.
- Old basements taking on water — many pre-war basements were never waterproofed in the modern sense; after a saturating rain, water finds the stone joints and floor seams that have moved for a hundred years.
- Tree limbs through old rooflines — the canopy that makes Oakhurst feel like Oakhurst also drops pine and water-oak limbs in severe weather; slate, tin, and architectural-shingle roofs each fail their own way when struck.
- Plaster and old-growth wood after a leak — century-old materials are worth saving and punish shortcuts; drying them takes controlled equipment and meter readings, not demolition-first habits.
What we handle in Decatur
Decatur questions
Asked by Decatur homeowners
Our 1920s bungalow always smells a little musty. Is that just how old houses are?
It's common, and it's not harmless — that smell is usually the crawlspace breathing up through the floor. Under most Decatur bungalows you'll find bare soil, open vents, and decades of humidity doing slow work on the framing. Ground vapor barrier, drainage corrections, and sealing with dehumidification end it for good in most cases — and remediation handles anything already growing on the joists. The house deserves better than air freshener.
Can you dry plaster walls, or does everything become drywall?
Plaster survives water better than drywall when the response is fast — it's denser and doesn't collapse the way gypsum board does. The honest answer is meter-driven: catch it early and controlled drying usually saves original plaster; let a leak run for weeks and saturated lath and keys may force removal. Either way we tell you which it is before work starts, in writing.
Do you serve the rest of DeKalb County?
Yes — Decatur, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Tucker, Stone Mountain, and the surrounding DeKalb communities are all core service area on the same 24/7 line.
Get help fast
Tell us what happened
Water, mold, fire, or storm damage — send a few details and we'll call you back to assess it. For active emergencies, calling is fastest: (678) 247-2393.
- 24/7 emergency response for water & storm emergencies
- We document everything for your insurance claim
- Serving all of metro Atlanta
What happens when you reach out
- Tell the 24/7 line (or this form) what happened and where — two minutes.
- We call you back fast to talk it through and set the on-site visit.
- Assessment first, in writing — work starts only when you say go.