Water Damage Restoration in Marietta, GA

Marietta is the Cobb County seat, laid out in 1833 and incorporated in 1852, with about 61,000 people in 2020 and the courthouse square at its center. The south side of the city, between the Square and the Smyrna line along Atlanta Road, South Cobb Drive, and Powder Springs Street, is the part this site covers: 1940s and 1950s frame houses and brick ranches built for the Bell Bomber plant workers, 1960s and 1970s split-levels on the hills toward Fair Oaks, and apartment and townhome infill from every decade since. Almost all of the older houses sit on vented crawl spaces over red clay.

Sope Creek and Rottenwood Creek drain the east side of the city toward the Chattahoochee, and Nickajack Creek starts on the south side and runs down to Smyrna. The December 2022 freeze split lines in crawl spaces across south Marietta, and the Bell-era houses with original galvanized plumbing were the first to go.

This site puts south Marietta homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the crawl space and the floor above it before deciding what opens.

South Marietta water damage under a Bell-era house

Standing water on the clay under a 1940s or 1950s house is a crawl space water extraction. A galvanized line that let go in a hard freeze is burst pipe water damage, and the plumber and the crew work at the same time. Once the wet material is out, structural drying runs from below until the joists read like a dry house.

The Square, the history center, and the city's permit desk

The City of Marietta runs its own permit desk, with online applications for plumbing, electrical, and mechanical work, and its own power and water utility, so a leak on the street side of the meter in the city is a Marietta call, not a Cobb County one. The Marietta History Center on Depot Street, a block off the Square, keeps the record of the Bell plant years that built the south side's housing stock.

Call (770) 830-3578 and say what is wet and where the house is. An independent local water damage provider serving south Marietta picks it up from there.