Water Damage Florida provides 24/7 water damage restoration, flood cleanup, and mold remediation across Florida. When water hits your property, our FL emergency crews respond fast to stop damage and restore your home.
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Marathon is strung along more than a dozen islands in the Middle Florida Keys, from Grassy Key in the east to Knight's Key at the foot of the Seven Mile Bridge in the west, with Vaca Key at its center. The city sits at sea level, with the Atlantic and Hawk Channel on one side and the Gulf-side bays on the other, so nearly every property is close to open water. It is a boating and fishing community roughly midway between Key Largo and Key West, with Boot Key Harbor, a large natural anchorage, lying entirely within the city limits. Water Damage Florida provides 24/7 water damage restoration in Marathon, including emergency water extraction, surge and tidal flood cleanup, structural drying, mold removal and repair.
About a third of the housing here is seasonal or vacant, and the stock ranges from waterfront single-family homes to older canal-front and mobile-home communities that were heavily damaged in Hurricane Irma. Each responds to water differently, and the salt air works on all of them. Call (888) 435-4769 when you find water and we will get a crew moving down the Keys.
Urgent calls from the Middle Keys usually begin with salt in one form or another. A corroded supply fitting or water heater connection fails in a waterfront home and runs across the floor into the bedrooms. A rental on Grassy Key or Fat Deer Key is found wet between guests. Wind-driven rain gets past a door on the ocean side of Vaca Key during a summer squall. And during a storm or an unusually high tide, water rises through the ground-level enclosures and lowest rooms of homes near the canals and Hawk Channel.
We plan every trip down the Keys so that pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers arrive together and drying starts on the first visit. From the moment we walk in we record the source, the path of the water and moisture readings, which becomes the foundation of your insurance claim. Our emergency water damage page describes what the first response involves.
Elevated waterfront homes keep their living space above most tidal flooding, but their ground-level enclosures, stairs and utilities take the water, and salt air reaches everything. Older canal-front homes and mobile homes sit close to the ground and absorb water into floors, walls and cabinetry quickly. In all of them, the materials that suffer are drywall, baseboards, cabinet bases, subfloors, insulation and any laminate or engineered flooring.
After extraction we map the moisture with meters and thermal imaging, remove what cannot be dried, and set up closed-space drying with dehumidifiers matched to the volume, because the humid island air will not dry a house on its own. Readings are logged daily and repair begins only when each material reaches its dry standard. Our water damage restoration service page walks through the full scope.
Hurricane Irma made U.S. landfall in the lower Keys in 2017 and caused significant damage in Marathon, with the Middle Keys experiencing four to six feet of surge inundation and some of the storm's strongest wind gusts; oceanside homes in the city were among those destroyed by the surge. Hurricane Ian in 2022 produced one to three feet of inundation across the Keys. Beyond named storms, the Keys as a whole are seeing increasing nuisance tidal flooding and are considered highly vulnerable to sea-level rise, so low yards and ground-level rooms can take water without a hurricane at all.
Salt water is contaminated and corrosive, and flood cleanup treats it that way. We pump and extract, remove porous materials the water reached rather than drying them, clean and disinfect hard surfaces, inspect metal, appliances and electrical components the salt touched, and dry the structure under air filtration. Ground-level enclosures, canal-front cottages and the lowest rooms of oceanside homes need the earliest attention. Stay out of standing water until the power is confirmed off, and see our flood restoration page for the sequence that follows.
Repair on Marathon's islands begins when the drying logs confirm the structure is dry. That often means new lower drywall and baseboards, replacement of swollen cabinet bases and vanities, new flooring where laminate or plank failed, subfloor repair in older cottages and mobile homes, ceiling repairs under roof leaks, and paint. Salt-damaged hardware and fixtures are typically replaced at the same time.
The scope we propose is built from the photos and readings gathered during mitigation, so your adjuster sees what the water affected and where. For seasonal owners and rental operators we schedule around travel and bookings where possible, send progress photos, and keep the property secured and climate-controlled between visits.
Warm, salt-laden air and a large share of homes that sit closed for months make mold a routine finding after water damage in the Middle Keys. We find it behind the drywall of rooms that took tide or surge water, under subfloors and laminate in canal-front cottages, inside walls around leaking showers, in the back of kitchen cabinets after a line failure, around air handlers, and throughout seasonal homes and rentals where a leak ran with the thermostat set high.
Our mold removal isolates the area with containment and negative air, removes and bags affected porous materials, HEPA-vacuums and cleans what remains, and dries the space completely before rebuilding, always after the moisture source is fixed. More on our approach is on the mold remediation page, and our article on hidden mold after water damage is worth reading before you repaint anything that was wet.
A sea-level city of islands, with waterfront homes, older canal-front and mobile-home communities and constant salt exposure, sees water damage from these sources most often:
Every job across the city's islands follows the same eight stages, each verified before the next, so that what we rebuild is standing on a dry structure.
We respond across the whole City of Marathon, from Grassy Key at the eastern end through Crawl Key, Fat Deer Key and Vaca Key to Boot Key and Knight's Key at the foot of the Seven Mile Bridge, including the Sombrero Beach area and the homes around Boot Key Harbor.
Our Keys crews cover the islands in both directions along the highway. Key West has its own service page:
With the drive down the Keys, what you do first has a real effect on the outcome. Take only the steps that are safe and leave the rest to the crew.
Before hurricane season, our hurricane water damage recovery guide and first 24 hours after a flood guide are worth a read.
Yes. Salt water in an enclosure soaks drywall, framing and stored belongings, corrodes utilities, and feeds mold that can spread upward. We extract, remove what the water reached, clean and disinfect, and dry the enclosure so it does not become a problem for the living space above.
Often, but they absorb water quickly and low floors and subfloors are usually involved. We assess the extent with moisture meters, remove saturated materials, dry and verify, and repair subfloors and walls. We tell you plainly after the survey what is worth restoring.
Salt air corrodes metal fittings, valves and water heater connections faster than inland conditions. Inspecting and replacing aging connections is the best prevention, and when one fails, fast extraction keeps the damage contained.
We coordinate with you or your manager on scheduling, work between bookings where possible, keep the property secured and climate-controlled, and document the loss for the owner's policy so the claim is straightforward.
With moisture meters and thermal imaging, logged for each material every day until readings return to the dry standard. Repair starts only after that, so a finished wall or floor is not hiding moisture behind it.
Yes. Our crews serve Key Colony Beach, Duck Key, Conch Key, Layton, Islamorada, Big Pine Key and Key West, and the rest of Florida through our service areas.
Water Damage Florida is available 24 hours a day for water extraction, flood cleanup, structural drying, mold removal and repair anywhere in Marathon. Call (888) 435-4769 any hour, email info@waterdamagefl.org, or describe the damage on our contact page.