Brighton, Tipton County
Water Damage Restoration in Brighton, Tennessee
Water Damage Restoration in Brighton, where the Town of Brighton runs the water and holds the shutoff.
Call (901) 459-6565 Water Damage Restoration, region-wide
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38011
- County
- Tipton
If the only thing you need is a number, it is in the rail, and it belongs to the desk that already covers this county.
Three square miles, a little under three thousand people, and one watercourse: Big Creek takes the drainage of this town as it does the towns on either side. The town supplies its own water, separate from Munford's system to the south and Atoka's beyond that. What makes the picture here particular is the old railroad alignment through the middle of it, laid in the 1870s and still governing where surface water goes and where it collects. Ground that collects is where crawl spaces stay wet after everything around them has dried.
Severe weather is not spread evenly through the year. The National Weather Service climatology for the Memphis warning area counted six hundred and thirteen tornadoes between 1950 and 1993, an average of fourteen a year, with April alone accounting for 22.5 percent and March through May for just over half — and a second season in November and December worth another twenty-one percent. The violent share runs above the national average. For a small town that means two distinct windows in which a roof breach, and the rain behind it, is most likely.
The full postal reach of the town carries the work — ZIP code 38011. Anything past the mitigation stage puts the job in front of the Town of Brighton, an exempt jurisdiction.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38011
- Ground drains toward
- Big Creek
- Shutoff and meter
- the Town of Brighton
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Routes through the town
- Highway 51 and State Route 3
- Road distance
- 36 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Brighton
On a water call the first question is which half of the town a house belongs to. The older, lower properties sit on shallow crawl spaces, so the plan has to include the space under the floor or the readings upstairs will not settle. The newer half is standard slab and dries from above. Either way the shutoff is the town's own valve, and because the system is small that is a short conversation rather than a queue, which is worth using early instead of once the wall is already open.
On the record here
March 31, 2023
The National Weather Service logged large trees down near Akins Store Road and Highway 51 in Brighton at 6:00 in the evening, during the same outbreak that produced the Covington EF-3 a few miles north.
What the building stock here does
The census shape here is unusual: 976 people in 1980, a fall to 717 in 1990, then 1,719 in 2000 and 2,888 by 2020. A town that shrank and then quadrupled carries two housing populations with a decade-wide gap between them and almost nothing built in it. The older half is small and low, with framing nearer the ground than most owners expect and floor systems that have been damp before. The newer half sits on graded fill and fails at its plumbing rather than at its ground.
A dehumidifier is sized to the cubic volume of the contained space, and the calculation goes on the log where the owner can check it.
Water damage work by type
One page per kind of water damage work, written for all twenty-one counties. The local half of the answer is the page you are on.
Also at this address
- Fire damage in BrightonThe town was established in 1873 on the Memphis and Paducah Railroad and named for that line's first division conductor, with incorporation following in 1913.
- Mold removal in BrightonThe older half of this town sits on shallow crawl spaces closer to the water table than most owners expect, and that is the single most useful thing to know about mold here.
- Everything covered in BrightonThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
If your building sits in one of the counties that inspects nothing beyond the city limits, ask on the phone how the rebuild will be documented instead. Ask that question early.
If a floor is going to be lost it is usually lost in the first two days, and after that the argument is about what it is replaced with rather than whether it had to be.