Cheney Woods is a neighborhood of 1950s and 1960s brick ranches and split-levels off Concord Road on the west side of Smyrna, a few blocks from the Silver Comet Trail and the Nickajack Creek corridor. The lots are large and wooded, the streets are quiet loops, and the houses are the classic Smyrna postwar stock: three bedrooms over a vented crawl space, a carport or a converted garage, and original copper or galvanized supply lines under the floor.
The trees are the local hazard. Sixty-year-old pines and water oaks come down in the spring squall lines and the late-summer remnants of Gulf storms, and a limb through the roof over a bedroom puts rain into the attic insulation and down the wall in a night. Under the house, the same clay that holds water everywhere in Smyrna holds it here.
This site puts Cheney Woods homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters from the attic down and the crawl space up.
A roof opened by a limb in a storm is roof leak water damage, and the wet insulation on the attic floor is most of the job. A ceiling that took that water and sagged is ceiling water damage repair. Water on the clay under the house after the same storm is a crawl space water extraction.
When a tree takes down a line or opens a roof in a storm, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services is the call for a live wire or a gas smell; the water damage call comes after the house is safe. Get a tarp on the roof before the next band of rain, and photograph the attic and the ceiling before the insulation comes out. Rebuild permits go through the City of Smyrna.
Call (770) 830-3578 and describe where the rain got in. An independent local water damage provider serving Cheney Woods takes it from there.
Standing water pulled off hardwood, tile, carpet, and slab on any floor of a Smyrna house, then the first meter readings on walls and subfloor.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until studs, subfloor, and drywall reach their dry target in a humid Georgia house.
Standing water pumped from under a 1950s ranch or split-level, then the joists, subfloor, and ductwork metered and dried from below.
Cleanup after a supply line split in a crawl space, attic, or exterior wall during a hard freeze, and drying of every room the water reached.
Mud, silt, and contaminated water removed after Nickajack, Rottenwood, or Sweetwater Creek came into a lower level, with wet materials cut out and the shell dried.
A tank that let go in a hall closet, garage, or attic platform, with the floor, walls, and rooms below pumped out and metered.
A stained or sagging ceiling under a second-floor bath or an attic water heater opened, dried above, and made ready for repair.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a spring thunderstorm or straight-line winds lifted shingles and let rain inside.