Truck-mounted and portable extraction
Standing water is removed from hard floors, carpet and pad with equipment sized to the volume, including weighted extraction that pulls water back up through carpet rather than just off the top.
Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water spreads every hour it sits. Orlando Water Damage Pros pulls it out of Orlando homes and businesses around the clock, then measures how far it already traveled before anything else is decided.
- 24/7 Emergency Response
- Upfront Quotes
- Drying & Repairs
Signs You Need Extraction Now
- Water standing on tile, laminate or carpet in any room
- Water spreading under a wall into the next room
- Carpet that squelches or a pad that has gone spongy
- Water running out of a closet, cabinet base or air handler
- A ceiling dripping or bulging above a living space
On a slab with no basement, water has nowhere to go but sideways. It runs along the slab under tile and vinyl plank, soaks the carpet pad, then climbs the drywall and the back of the base cabinets. The longer it sits in Orlando humidity, the more of that material stops being salvageable.
What the Service Includes
Not every call needs every item below. The crew works out what applies once the water is out and the readings are taken, and you approve the scope before the work continues.
Finding where the water reached
Moisture meters and thermal imaging show the wet area behind baseboard, under cabinet toe kicks and beyond the visible edge. That boundary is marked so nothing damp gets covered back up.
Containing and protecting
Furniture is blocked or moved off wet flooring, contents at risk are lifted, and the affected area is separated from the rest of the building where that makes sense.
Documentation for your records
Photographs, the moisture map and the initial readings are recorded at the start, which is what any claim or property manager will ask for later.
Your Options After Extraction
Extraction is the first step, not the whole job. Once the water is out, the readings tell you whether the building can be dried in place or whether some material has to come out. Clean water caught in the first day often dries with equipment alone. Carpet pad under contaminated water, soaked insulation and swollen particle-board cabinet bases usually do not.
The next stage is normally structural drying, and if the source was a supply line or water heater, the burst pipe cleanup page explains what typically gets wet in that situation. Where the water came from outside or through the roof, see storm and flood cleanup.
If you are weighing what can be saved, use our dry and restore versus replace guide to prepare questions for the inspection, or check the communities we cover.
Water Extraction Questions
How fast does standing water need to come out?
The same day if at all possible. Water keeps moving under flooring and up into drywall while you decide, and in Central Florida humidity damp material can start growing mold within a day or two. Orlando Water Damage Pros answers the phone around the clock so extraction can start before the wet area gets wider.
What affects the cost of emergency extraction?
The volume of water, how many rooms and floor types are involved, whether the water was clean or contaminated, and how much access work is needed to reach it. Orlando Water Damage Pros measures the wet area first and gives you an upfront quote before equipment goes in.
Can I just use a wet vacuum and fans myself?
A shop vacuum will take the surface water off a hard floor, which is worth doing while you wait. It will not pull water out of carpet pad, subfloor or the bottom of a wall, and household fans mostly move damp air around. That is the difference between a floor that looks dry and a building that reads dry on a meter.
Is it safe to be in a room with standing water?
Not if the water has reached outlets, cords, an air handler or a panel. Stay out of that room and do not wade in to unplug anything. If the water came from a sewage backup, treat it as a biohazard and keep everyone out. Tell Orlando Water Damage Pros what the water touched when you call.
Arrange emergency extraction in Orlando
Tell us what the water is doing right now and we will plan the call around it.