- Serving the East Bay, CA
- 24/7 Emergency Services
- IICRC: 70194273
SOS Restoration of East Bay works Alameda, the island across the estuary from Oakland. The water comes out, then the rebuild. Spanish is spoken on site; the look is free. Half its homes were built before 1970, old enough to matter. Call (341) 220-0032.
We Are California’s Premier Home Restoration Company
An island built partly on fill drains and dries unlike the mainland.
Because two in three Alameda homes predate 1980.
68.8 percent of the island’s 32,320 homes stood before 1980, nearly a third before 1940. Since lead paint left the market in 1978, that median house falls inside the sampling window. A water job here opens with a test.
EBMUD, for the tap and the sewer both.
The East Bay runs on five water agencies, and Alameda draws on EBMUD. Naming the right one saves the first hour, which is the hour that decides whether the floor is saved.
Yes; made ground holds and moves water in odd ways.
Much of the island is bay fill, which stays damp and shifts under load. Alameda County also carries a soft-story retrofit law. On the wrong building that rule reaches the permit for the repair.
When a meter reads dry and nothing is hidden.
A small surface spill you caught in minutes, wiped and dried, needs no crew. The wall behind it still gets a reading. The call and the reading are free either way.
The same crew that dried it, under both our licenses.
No stranger for the second half. IICRC #70194273 covers the drying, CSLB #1131134 the rebuild, matched to a 1960s island house. Ask the dispatcher what your island block needs.
The main under the street is EBMUD’s, and the island’s storm drains are the city’s.
Call them before anyone else when it surfaces outside. We start at the fixture, once it has come up inside and soaked something that holds it.
It does. The island holds 32,320 homes and a third of them predate 1940.
That puts the median house inside the window where paint is presumed to hold lead. We sample before we open anything, and the sample is not a formality.
Alameda is an island, and shallow groundwater sits close to the surface across much of it.
A wet slab here does not always mean a broken pipe above it. We meter the floor and the air separately, because those two numbers tell different stories.
Shallow groundwater under the slab is not a leak, and not a job.
Sixty percent of the shallow water here already sits near the surface. The meter tells ground moisture from a pipe leak.
An island, with a lagoon through the middle and a water table that sits just under the crawlspaces. Old Victorians on the east end, former base housing on the west, and a tube and a handful of bridges tying it to Oakland.
A number is enough to start. The rest tells us which bridge to cross and what gear to load.
Fill ground hides water well, so read the island slab early.