Restoration help in Portland
Portland's housing runs from pre-war foursquares on the inner eastside to brand-new townhouses, and the water problems follow the vintage. Basements under combined sewers take the surcharge backups. Clay laterals clog with roots from the mature street canopy. West Hills houses deal with slope runoff. And every hard rain tests the combined sewers under the inner eastside.
The jobs that call from Portland
- Sewage backup from combined-sewer surcharges and root-choked laterals, concentrated in the inner eastside basements.
- Flood cleanup along the Johnson Creek corridor in Lents and Powellhurst, plus crawlspace and basement flooding everywhere it rains hard enough.
- Burst pipes during the ice events that push down the Gorge, hitting crawlspaces and exterior-wall plumbing.
- Mold remediation in crawlspaces, attic decks with fan-vented moisture, and bathrooms from the pre-war era.
- Fire and smoke from kitchen fires, older wiring, and the smoke infiltration that comes with regional wildfire season.
Portland by quadrant
The city's five quadrants carry different housing and different water:
- North Portland, the peninsula grid from St. Johns down through Kenton and Arbor Lodge.
- Northeast Portland, the pre-war neighborhoods: Irvington, Alameda, Alberta, and out to Parkrose.
- Northwest Portland, from the dense NW District out to the West Hills slopes.
- Southeast Portland, Sellwood to Powellhurst, including the Johnson Creek floodplain.
- Southwest Portland, Multnomah Village, Hillsdale, and the hillside neighborhoods above.
Coverage
Coverage is the whole city, every named neighborhood from Cathedral Park to Sellwood to Parkrose, plus the Pearl District. Multifamily towers downtown get the same response as a Sellwood bungalow; say which it is on the form so the right crew picks it up.