Restoration services in Idaho City, ID

Idaho City sits at about 3,900 feet on Highway 21. The corridor between there and Boise is mountain homes and cabins, a large share of them occupied part-time: Robie Creek, Wilderness Ranch, Clear Creek, Mores Creek.

Part-time occupancy is the whole problem. A supply line or a pump line breaks in February in a house nobody is in and runs for days or weeks. What we're called to is rarely a wet floor; it's a saturated structure with active microbial growth.

Wells, pressure tanks and pump houses instead of city water. Those failures dump continuously and there's no meter at the curb to shut off, so we sort out the shut-down before we start moving water.

Wood heat and unconditioned crawlspaces are standard up there. Stack effect pulls ground moisture up through the floor all winter, and a good share of the 'we had a leak' calls turn out to be a long-running moisture problem the leak only made visible.

Winter access is real. Highway 21 gets snow and ice, and the side roads into the subdivisions often aren't plowed to the door. Ask on the phone what we can reach today and you'll get the actual answer, including the days when the actual answer is not yet.