Water Damage Restoration
Serving Fort Lauderdale & Broward County
A king tide backs up over a seawall on a Las Olas Isles canal, a supply line fails high in a beachfront tower, hurricane surge rides the New River into a ground-floor ranch — Restoration Doctor answers around the clock, extracts and dries to IICRC standards, and documents the loss so every stakeholder gets a record that holds up.
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Water, storm, mold, sewage, fire, and the contents inside — each restored under one accountable operation, documented end to end, from the canals to the beach.
Water Damage Restoration
Extraction, structural drying, and moisture verification for pipe failures, king-tide intrusion, and unit-to-unit leaks in Fort Lauderdale homes, condos, and canal-front properties.
Storm & Hurricane Damage Restoration
Emergency board-up, tarping, storm-surge and flood extraction, and post-hurricane structural drying for homes, canal properties, and condo towers across Fort Lauderdale and Broward County.
Mold Remediation
S520-based mold remediation: containment, HEPA-filtered removal, moisture-source correction, and post-remediation verification for Fort Lauderdale homes, condos, and waterfront properties.
Sewage Cleanup
Category 3 water mitigation: sewage extraction, contaminated material removal, disinfection, and structural drying for backups, drain failures, and tidal surcharge in Broward County.
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration
Structure securing, soot and smoke residue removal, odor treatment, and combined fire-and-water mitigation for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County properties.
Contents Restoration & Pack-Out
Full-chain contents handling for Broward County: barcode-tracked inventory, pack-out, restoration cleaning, climate-controlled storage, and organized pack-back.
Built for how the Venice of America floods
Restoration playbooks written for northern markets do not translate here. Ours is written for canal-front ranches on slab, Las Olas condo towers, aging seawalls, and a climate that punishes delay.
King tides and canal flooding
With 165 miles of navigable canals, Fort Lauderdale floods from the water table up as often as from the sky down. King tides push saltwater over aging seawalls and back through storm drains, soaking ground-floor slabs and garages on the driest of days. That intrusion is scoped and dried differently from a clean pipe loss, and separating the two cleanly matters for your record.
Hurricane surge up the New River
Named storms drive two very different losses — tidal surge riding up the New River and the canal network to push water in at grade, and wind-driven rain forced through roofs, windows, and balcony sliders. Each gets its own scope, drying plan, and documentation, because how the water entered decides how it comes out.
Broward humidity that never lets up
Year-round dew points in the 70s mean a wet wall in Broward County gets no grace period. Microbial growth that might take days in a drier climate can start within 24 to 48 hours here, which is why drying begins the same visit the water is found.
1950s ranches on slab and Las Olas towers
Fort Lauderdale runs from mid-century ranch homes sitting directly on concrete slab to the waterfront condo towers along Las Olas and the beach. A failed supply line high in a tower can travel through a dozen units before anyone sees it, while a slab home wicks canal water up into its baseplates. Each building type gets a drying plan built for how it actually holds moisture.
What happens after you call
The same five-stage sequence runs on every South Florida loss — condo tower or single-family, burst supply line or hurricane intrusion.
Call (786) 213-9489 — any hour
One call reaches our South Florida dispatch, day or night, hurricane season or not. We log the loss, help you shut the water source or make the unit safe, and stage the nearest crew toward you.
A crew dispatches across the metro
Crews roll from the Brickell corridor across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In Florida's heat and humidity the microbial clock runs faster than anywhere in the country, so mobilization starts the moment dispatch hangs up.
Extract, contain & dry to a standard
We remove standing water, set containment where units share walls or risers, and build a drying system matched to the structure — tile over concrete slab dries very differently from wood framing — verifying progress with daily moisture readings, not a calendar.
Document every phase of the loss
Time-stamped photos, moisture maps, psychrometric logs, and a line-item scope in the format adjusters and condo associations already work in. You keep a complete record of what happened, what we did, and why.
Rebuild to pre-loss condition
Once materials verify dry, repairs close the project out — drywall, baseboard, cabinetry, paint — coordinated with your building or association where access rules apply, under the same accountable operation that answered the first call.
Fort Lauderdale & across Broward County
Responding from our South Florida operations center to 14 communities, from the beach and the Isles to the western suburbs.
Victoria Park, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Rio Vista, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Las Olas Isles, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Coral Ridge, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Harbor Beach, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Sailboat Bend, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Tarpon River, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Colee Hammock, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Imperial Point, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Wilton Manors, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Oakland Park, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Plantation, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
Pompano Beach, FL
Water, storm, mold, and sewage restoration with local building-type detail.
A multi-state operation, accountable locally
Restoration Doctor of Miami serves Greater Fort Lauderdale as part of the multi-state Restoration Doctor network, headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. That means national-standard documentation discipline — time-stamped photos, daily moisture logs, line-item scopes — applied to Broward County losses by an operation you can call at (786) 213-9489. Verified reviews for the network are published on our independent reviews hub.
Fort Lauderdale restoration guides
Answer-first guides on the losses Broward County actually produces — king tides on the Isles, hurricane season, condo and association claims, saltwater damage, humidity-driven mold, and failing cast-iron drain lines.
King Tide Flooding in Fort Lauderdale: What Saltwater Does to Isles and Canal-Front Homes
Every fall, Fort Lauderdale's highest tides of the year push canal water up through storm drains and over aging seawalls on a cloudless afternoon. Here is what that saltwater actually does to a slab-on-grade home, why letting it 'dry on its own' is the most expensive mistake owners make, and the mitigation sequence that works.
Hurricane Season Prep for Fort Lauderdale Homeowners: The Complete Pre-Storm and Post-Storm Playbook
Most storm losses in Broward are not caused by the wind itself — they are caused by water that found a way in through an opening nobody thought to check. Here is the pre-season, pre-landfall, and first-24-hours playbook written specifically for Fort Lauderdale homes.
Condo Water Damage in Fort Lauderdale: Unit Owner vs. Association, and How Claims Actually Get Decided
A condensate line backs up on the eleventh floor and by morning three units and a corridor are wet. In a Fort Lauderdale tower, the question is never just how to dry it — it is where the failure started, what the declaration calls that component, and who has the documentation to prove it.
Active water, mold, fire, or sewage event?
Connect directly with the Restoration Doctor team for your region. Crews are on standby 24/7 with documented response protocols.