Fast, Reliable Reconstruction & Cleanup Across Marietta
Reconstruction and cleanup in Marietta after a flood or fire means rebuilding on red clay soil, inside homes that were framed before moisture meters existed. Most jobs in ZIP codes 30060 and 30064 involve crawl spaces, settled foundations, and drywall that has been wet longer than the homeowner realizes. We start with a direct answer: if you call (888) 832-2758, a live dispatcher answers, a crew is routed to Marietta within hours, and reconstruction begins with a written scope so you know exactly what we will do and what it costs before we cut a single stud. Our Reconstruction & Cleanup team has rebuilt enough 1950s ranch and 1960s split-level homes in this city to know that the water line on the wall is only the beginning. Curt Bowman founded Floodline Restoration Co. on a simple rule: keep the job whole, from first extraction to final coat of paint, with no mid-job handoff to a crew you have never met.
Why Floodline Restoration Co. of Atlanta Is Marietta’s Preferred Reconstruction & Cleanup Company
Marietta homeowners tend to keep their houses for decades. They remember which contractor showed up late, which one argued about the bill, and which one left a musty smell behind. We built our reputation in this city by doing the opposite. Every technician who drives into a Marietta neighborhood is background-checked, uniformed, and trained to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards. The same crew that reads the moisture map on day one handles daily readings, hands the log to you and your carrier, and rebuilds what needs rebuilding. That matters in a city where drying a 1960s split-level off Powder Springs Road takes longer than drying a slab-on-grade house in a neighboring county. We know the difference because we have worked both.
Our Marietta customers also know the 90-Day Done Right Promise, the Keystone Standard in writing. If our reconstruction or cleanup is not right, we make it right. No arguing. No paperwork battle. That guarantee, plus direct insurance billing and no-hassle upfront pricing, is why homeowners near the historic Marietta Square call us before the adjuster even finishes his inspection. As part of our Reconstruction & Cleanup in Marietta service area, we handle everything from a single flooded bonus room to a whole-house rebuild. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from the brand’s Atlanta office, but the crews working in your home live in Cobb County and the surrounding metro. We answer the phone with a person at 2 a.m., and that person knows which crew is closest to your street.
Our Reconstruction & Cleanup Services in Marietta
Reconstruction after water or fire damage in Marietta follows a different playbook than in newer subdivisions. The dominant housing stock here, 1950s to 1980s ranch and split-level homes, often sits on degraded crawl-space foundations with failing original vapor barriers. We scope every job for the damage you can see and the moisture you cannot. Here are the services we perform most often across Marietta ZIP codes 30008, 30060, 30061, and 30062.
Full-Service Reconstruction
We rebuild entire rooms and we rebuild entire houses. A Marietta reconstruction job might start with a flooded finished basement off Whitlock Avenue and end with new framing, new drywall, new flooring, and a corrected drainage grade outside the downhill wall. We do not stop at the water line. We follow the moisture path through the studs, the sill plates, and the crawl space below. Because we are the Reconstruction & Cleanup crew from start to finish, nothing gets handed off or lost between an extraction company and a separate contractor. The homeowner gets one team, one written scope, and one warranty.
Drywall & Flooring Repair
Marietta’s humid subtropical climate means wet drywall can grow mold in 24 to 48 hours. We cut out damaged drywall with a margin beyond the visible stain, because red clay water wicks upward through the paper facing and feeds colonies you cannot see yet. For flooring, we handle warped oak, buckled laminate, rotted subflooring, and tile that has debonded from a swollen mortar bed. In older homes near the Square, we also watch for lathe-and-plaster behind the drywall. Standard moisture meters calibrated for drywall give misleading readings on plaster, which is why our daily moisture readings include invasive pin tests when the wall construction demands it.
Contents Restoration & Pack-Out
When a Marietta home needs full reconstruction, the contents often need somewhere safe to go first. We run supervised pack-outs with a written inventory. Furniture, clothing, documents, and keepsakes are moved to our controlled storage, cleaned, and returned when the rebuild is complete. For homes with smoke damage from kitchen fires or lightning strikes, contents cleaning may involve ultrasonic cleaning and ozone treatment before anything comes back through the door. Homeowners along Whitlock Avenue and Powder Springs Road have trusted us with generations of family photographs, and we treat those boxes like our own.
Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
After a reconstruction job, the carpet in the adjoining hallway often holds the same dust and debris that filled the work area. We provide professional-grade carpet and upholstery cleaning using Dri-Eaz and XPOWER equipment, including hot water extraction for deep-set red clay staining that track-in traffic has ground into the fibers. This service is also a smart follow-up after post-construction cleanup, when drywall dust settles into upholstery and drapes even after the room looks finished.
Post-Construction Cleanup
We clean up behind our own work, and we clean up behind other contractors, too. Post-construction cleanup in Marietta means more than vacuuming drywall dust. It means HEPA-filtered air scrubbing after sanding, wiping down every horizontal surface, clearing window tracks of debris, and pulling construction dust out of return air ducts. In Marietta’s older ranch homes, it also means removing demolition dust that has settled into the crawl space access. We walk the job with you before we call it done, because you should not have to move furniture to find the spot we missed.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Marietta
We maintain and repair equipment and structures from the brands Marietta homeowners already rely on. When we rebuild a garage or workshop on a Powder Springs Road acreage property, we work with the big-ticket components that need to hold up to heavy use: oversized lift openers, commercial-grade springs, and heavy track systems. We stock common parts locally for faster turnaround on Marietta jobs, and we use Phoenix and B-Air drying equipment on every water-loss reconstruction, so the air movers and dehumidifiers running in your home during rebuild are the same professional-grade units our technicians trust.
Common Reconstruction & Cleanup Problems We See in Marietta Homes
- Sloped red-clay lots that reverse drainage pitch. Decades of soil settlement on Powder Springs Road and Whitlock Avenue homes can tilt the ground so stormwater runs toward the foundation instead of away from it. Any reconstruction that ignores the exterior grade guarantees the same downhill wall floods again next spring.
- Original crawl-space vapor barriers that failed years ago. Most 1950s ranch homes in Marietta still have a thin, torn sheet of plastic over the crawl-space floor. Water evaporates upward through the subfloor, keeping the home damp and feeding mold even after the visible damage is cleaned up. Reconstruction should include vapor barrier replacement, not just drywall replacement.
- Historic lathe-and-plaster walls near Marietta Square. Plaster cavities trap moisture in ways drywall does not. A crew that only takes surface readings will close the wall with hidden moisture inside, and the mold returns within months. Our technicians use invasive pin meters to read what is actually inside the plaster.
- Recurring bonus-room floods in 1960s split-levels. These homes were graded into slopes fifty or sixty years ago. The downhill-facing partial basement or finished bonus room now sits in the path of spring stormwater that the original drainage was never designed to handle after decades of soil movement.
Pricing for Reconstruction & Cleanup in Marietta, GA
Reconstruction pricing in Marietta reflects the age of the housing stock, not just the square footage of the damage. A single-room drywall and flooring rebuild after a plumbing burst in a 1960s split-level typically runs $3,200 to $6,800, depending on whether the sill plate and vapor barrier need replacement. Full bonus-room reconstruction with drainage grade correction and crawl-space work usually falls between $8,000 and $18,000. Post-construction cleanup after a mid-size rebuild runs $400 to $900. Carpet and upholstery cleaning for a 3-bedroom ranch is $250 to $500. Every job includes a free on-site estimate and a written scope before we begin, so the final bill matches the plan. We also offer $50 off any repair over $250, an $89 seasonal tune-up, and a 5% discount for seniors and veterans, always.
We Also Serve Cities Near Marietta
Our crews regularly work in Fair Oaks, Smyrna, Vinings, and Kennesaw. If you live in one of those communities and need full reconstruction or post-construction cleanup, call us at (888) 832-2758. We will route the closest available crew to your address. And if you are in Marietta itself, we know the streets, the housing stock, and the weather patterns, which means fewer surprises once we open the walls.
Serving Marietta, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Marietta area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Reconstruction & Cleanup in Marietta
The flood is not the root problem. The root problem is the settled grade outside the downhill wall. After fifty or sixty years of Georga red clay swelling and shrinking, the ground around your foundation no longer pitches away from the house. Spring rains run straight into the foundation instead of around it. Drying the room removes the water from this year’s event, but the next heavy rain comes right back. Reconstruction should include regrading the exterior with compacted fill, resetting the drainage path, and installing a new vapor barrier and dehumidifier. If a crew only tears out the wet drywall and rebuilds it, you will call us again next March. Call (888) 832-2758 for an on-site inspection that reads the grade, the drainage, and the crawl space before we write the scope.
In most 1950s ranch homes in Marietta, the original vapor barrier is beyond repair. Decades of rocks, rodents, and moisture have torn it, and it was likely a thin 6-mil sheet to begin with. Patching it leaves gaps where water vapor still enters the subfloor. We recommend full replacement with a thicker cross-laminated barrier, sealed at the seams and run up the foundation walls. We include this in the reconstruction scope if your crawl space is wet or if floor readings show elevated moisture. It costs less than a second drywall repair next year and it is the only way to break the recurring musty odor cycle. Estimates for vapor barrier replacement are free, and we bill your carrier directly when the damage is part of an insured loss.
We do not always have to tear them down. Plaster can often be saved if the water event was short and the wall is dried correctly. That means using invasive pin meters to read moisture inside the plaster cavity, not just surface meters calibrated for drywall. We may install small ventilation holes behind the baseboard line to direct airflow through the wall cavity, then run Phoenix dehumidifiers and Dri-Eaz air movers until the interior moisture content reaches the dry standard. The baseboard conceals the repair. If the plaster is already crumbling or the lath has rotted, we cut out only the damaged section and rebuild it to match. Call (888) 832-2758 and we will tell you which approach applies to your walls.
Reconstruction starts as soon as the framing reaches the dry standard, which we confirm with daily moisture readings, not guesswork. In Marietta’s summer heat and humidity, drying typically takes three to five days for drywall construction; lathe-and-plaster near the Square can take longer. Because the same Floodline crew handles extraction, drying, and rebuild, there is no lag time waiting to hand the job to another company. When the moisture log shows dry, our crew is already on site. We will give you a written reconstruction scope before water removal finishes, so you know the exact plan and price before the drywall comes down. Call (888) 832-2758 and a live dispatcher will get someone to your home quickly.
Yes. We document everything in writing and with photos, and we coordinate directly with your adjuster. You will not be the messenger running between our crew and your carrier. We provide a written scope, a daily moisture log, photo documentation of all damage before and after, and itemized line-item billing that your carrier can understand without back-and-forth. If the claim expands because we find hidden damage inside a Marietta crawl space or behind a plaster wall, we document that too, so the adjuster sees exactly what we saw. We have worked with carriers in Cobb County for years, and we know what they need to approve a claim. Call (888) 832-2758 and we will walk you through what we need from your policy before we start.
If you have a reconstruction or cleanup job in Marietta, call (888) 832-2758 for a free estimate. A live person answers, day or night. We will schedule the visit, put the scope in writing, and stand behind the work with the 90-Day Done Right Promise.
Written by Curt Bowman, Owner at Floodline Restoration Co., serving Marietta and surrounding communities since 2010.