Dallas is the Paulding County seat, established on May 14, 1852, and at 1,043 feet it is one of the highest-sitting suburbs in the Atlanta area. For a century it was a courthouse town near the Pickett's Mill and New Hope Church battlefields, where the original 1864 trenches are still in the ground. Then the subdivisions arrived: the city's population nearly doubled between 2000 and 2010 and more than doubled again by 2020, when the census counted about 14,000 people. Almost every house in those subdivisions off Highway 278, Dallas-Acworth Highway, and Nebo Road is a 2000s or 2010s two-story on a crawl space or a basement.
New does not mean dry. A ten-year-old subdivision on graded clay has settled enough that the swale between two houses now drains toward one of them, and a basement wall that was dry for the first few years starts to seep.
This site connects Dallas homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider looks at the house before writing a scope.
A basement that seeped along the uphill wall after the grading settled is basement flooding cleanup. A crawl space that took runoff through a vent that ended up below grade is crawl space water extraction. A plastic supply line that failed at a fitting in a 2008 two-story is burst pipe water damage, and the ceiling below gets metered first.
A rebuild inside the city goes through the City of Dallas, and outside the limits it is Paulding County's building desk. Water service in and around the city comes from the county system, which can shut a meter at the street when the house valve will not turn.
Call (470) 574-4769 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Dallas.
Standing water pulled off a finished floor, a slab garage, or a lower level, then meter readings to show which rooms it reached.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by the readings, running through a humid Georgia week until framing, subfloor, and drywall hit their targets.
Water pumped from under a Kennesaw house after clay runoff or a plumbing leak, then joists, insulation, and vapor barrier dealt with.
A finished or daylight basement that took on rain or a failed line, pumped out and dried behind the drywall and under the carpet pad.
The rooms a split supply line soaked, from a hard-freeze night to a failed fitting in the attic, pumped and dried once the valve is closed.
Attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a summer thunderstorm or a tropical storm sent rain through the roof.
Cleanup after a basement pit overflowed in a power outage or a stuck float, with the wall system and flooring dried, not just the puddle.
A tank that failed in a garage, a basement corner, or a second-floor closet, and the flooring and ceiling below it dried out.