Recently, JoeTaylor Restoration received an after hours call from a building engineer for a condo high rise in Hollywood, Florida. He had a major problem on his hands that, unfortunately, is relatively common- a single kitchen fire causes water damage throughout many units and ends up impacting the entire condo building.

In this case, the fire had started on the 14th floor, setting off the fire sprinklers throughout the building and alerting the fire department. Between the fire sprinklers and the fire department hoses, all 14 floors of the building were thoroughly saturated, with standing water in many sections including hallways and common areas.

After a thorough moisture inspection of all 14 floors, our technicians got to work immediately extracting the standing water and deploying drying equipment. The job of appropriately placing all of the equipment was quite labor intensive for our team, as the situation required many extra large dehumidifiers and hundreds of air movers across 14 floors.