Storm Flood Cleanup in Watsonville, CA
When an atmospheric river parks over the Pajaro Valley and the water finds its way into your home, the clock starts the moment it comes in. Ed's Construction Services handles storm flood cleanup in Watsonville, CA — pulling the water out, drying the structure, and rebuilding what the flooding ruined, all under one California contractor's licence. You call, and Everardo Mendoza answers the phone himself.
Why choose Ed's Construction Services
- One licence covers the whole job. The same California contractor's licence that covers the water extraction and drying also covers the reconstruction. You're not handed off to a separate builder once the fans come out — the crew that dries your floor is the crew that puts it back.
- Built for coastal Central California. Most Watsonville homes sit over a crawl space, not a basement, and floodwater tends to collect down there where you can't see it. We know to check the crawl space, the sill plates, and the redwood framing, because marine-layer damp and standing water together are how rot and mold get started.
- You talk to the person doing the work. Everardo runs the jobs and takes the calls. When you have a question about your house, you're talking to the contractor, not a call center.
- Straight answers about your house. We tell you what's wet, what has to come out, and what can be saved and dried in place. If a stud or a subfloor is sound, we don't rip it out to pad the job.
Our Storm Flood Cleanup process
- Walk the property and stop the source. We look at where the water came from — river backup, street runoff, a failed drain, roof intrusion during winter rain — and get it stopped or diverted so we're not drying against a live leak.
- Extract the standing water. Water is pumped and vacuumed out of living space and, just as important, out of the crawl space where it likes to sit unseen under a Watsonville home.
- Remove what's beyond saving. Soaked carpet, pad, drywall, and insulation that have wicked up floodwater come out. Floodwater is rarely clean, so anything that acted like a sponge usually has to go.
- Dry the structure and monitor it. We set air movers and dehumidifiers and check moisture readings in the framing and subfloor over the following days. Redwood and stucco assemblies hold water differently than newer materials, and we dry to the reading, not to a guess.
- Treat for mold risk. In our damp coastal climate, wet framing left alone grows mold fast. Once things are dry we clean and treat the affected surfaces before anything gets closed back up.
- Rebuild. Drywall, insulation, flooring, trim, paint — the reconstruction happens under the same licence, so the house goes back to how it was without a second contractor starting over from scratch.
Throughout, we keep you in the loop on what we're finding and what comes next, so there are no surprises when the drywall comes off.
Serving Watsonville, CA and nearby
We work across Watsonville and the greater Monterey Bay — the flats along the Pajaro River, the neighborhoods up the hillsides, and the surrounding towns from Freedom and Aromas over toward the coast. Anyone who lived here in March 2023, when the Pajaro levee failed and flooded the town next door, knows how fast valley water can move and how much damage it leaves behind. Homes here take a particular kind of beating: winter atmospheric-river storms drop weeks of rain in days, agricultural-valley ground sheds water into the low spots, and salt air keeps everything a little damp even after the sky clears. That mix is why flood damage in this area needs to be dried thoroughly and checked over time, not just mopped up and painted over.
If a storm has put water in your home or crawl space, call Ed's Construction Services at (831) 247-3672. Tell us what you're seeing and where the water is, and we'll walk you through what the cleanup and the rebuild will look like for your house — start to finish, under one licence.