Collierville, Shelby County
Water Damage Restoration in Collierville, Tennessee
Water Damage Restoration at a Collierville address, in a county where Memphis is 25 road miles up the road.
Call (901) 459-6565 The regional water damage restoration pages
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38017
- County
- Shelby
The postal codes in the strip above are the ones where this service was actually purchased, which is not always every code in the town.
Nonconnah Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the county near here and runs west from this point, so the town sits at the top of that watershed rather than at the bottom of it. The Wolf forms the northern edge. Being upstream means surface flooding is not the characteristic risk across these thirty-six square miles; the characteristic risk is a supply failure inside a house, at full municipal pressure, on ground that drains away from the building rather than toward it. That changes what the first walkthrough is looking for.
The town runs water and wastewater and no other service: over two hundred and fifty miles of water main, some thirty-four hundred hydrants, two hundred and thirty miles of sewer, twenty- six lift stations and two treatment plants. Electricity and gas still come from MLGW. A loss here therefore normally needs two utilities on the phone rather than one, the Public Utilities Division for the curb stop or a sewer backup and MLGW for the meter and the panel. The two do not share an after-hours line.
The purchase reaches ZIP code 38017, the full set the site holds for this place. Cleanup rarely needs a permit; the reconstruction behind it is a matter for the Town of Collierville, which runs its own building and codes department.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38017
- Ground drains toward
- Nonconnah Creek and the Wolf River
- Shutoff and meter
- the Collierville Public Utilities Division, which runs water and wastewater and no other service
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Road distance
- 25 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Collierville
Both numbers go out at the same time rather than in sequence. If the water is coming from a sewer instead of a supply line, that is the town's lift station network and the category of the water changes, which changes what can be dried and what has to be removed. Inside, extraction and the moisture map run while those calls are being answered. On the square, where the buildings are older and share walls, one shutoff may serve more than one address and the neighbor is found before the valve is turned.
What the building stock here does
The town went from 7,839 people in 1980 to 51,324 in 2020, so all but a small core is 1985 to 2010 construction on slab. Those houses are now old enough that the original water heaters, washing machine hoses and angle stops are reaching the end together. A single street can produce several similar losses inside a couple of years. The nineteenth-century buildings around the square are the opposite problem: plaster on lath, wood floors over crawl spaces, and cavities that carry water further than a modern wall does.
Where a wall cavity can be dried in place with an injection system, that option is priced against demolition and the owner chooses between them.
Water damage work by type
Collierville shares these sub-pages with every other community on the site, since water damage work is carried out the same way in all of them.
Also at this address
- Fire damage in ColliervilleDowntown here is a listed historic district on the National Register, built around a square of commercial buildings that share party walls and have been altered repeatedly since the town was rechartered on 17 February 1870.
- Mold removal in ColliervilleThe Wolf River Restoration Project reach runs along the northern edge of town, and the bottomland it occupies is the lowest and wettest ground for several miles.
- Everything covered in ColliervilleThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
If what you have is a plumbing problem, that is what you will be told, and the call ends there at no charge. No truck is sent to a job with no restoration work in it.
Groundwater and surface water sit outside most standard policies, so before anything else, find that section of your own document and read what it actually says.