Williams Park is the neighborhood of brick ranches and small split-levels just west of downtown Smyrna, between Atlanta Road and the Silver Comet corridor, built through the 1950s and early 1960s for the families who worked at the Lockheed plant in Marietta. The lots are deep and shaded by pines and oaks that are now sixty years old, the streets roll with the ridge, and nearly every house sits on a vented crawl space over the red clay. In the last fifteen years a lot of those ranches have been raised to two stories or replaced with larger houses on the same lots, and the new ones often kept the old crawl space footprint.
A Williams Park water loss is usually a slow one found late: a supply line under the floor that has been dripping onto the clay since the last cold snap, or an air handler condensate line under the house that clogged in June. The floor above gets soft or the hardwood cups before anyone looks under the house.
This site puts Williams Park homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider goes under the house with a meter before anything upstairs is decided.
Water on the clay under the house is a crawl space water extraction, and the joists and subfloor are metered from below before the hardwood above is touched. A line that split in the crawl space during a hard freeze is burst pipe water damage. A dark seam in the dining room hardwood after a sink line failed is a water extraction with the drying run from both sides of the floor.
The Taylor-Brawner House on Atlanta Road, on the edge of the neighborhood, was built in the 1880s and later served as the Brawner Sanitarium; the city restored it and the grounds are now Taylor-Brawner Park. Houses of that age and the 1950s ranches around them have one thing in common: the crawl space is where the water goes first. Rebuild permits go through the City of Smyrna.
Call (770) 830-3578 and say what you found under the floor. An independent local water damage provider serving Williams Park picks it up 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.