Water Damage Restoration and Leak Repair in Beverly Hills
Absolute Maintenance & Consulting provides water damage restoration, leak repair and waterproofing serving Beverly Hills homes, apartment buildings and commercial properties. In Beverly Hills, we plan around three things: basements and subterranean garages, patios and pool decks built over rooms, and the tile roofs and parapets of older period homes.
Schedule an inspection in Beverly Hills: call (310) 678-4345 or request an inspection online.
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Water in your Beverly Hills basement, patio or roof? Book an inspection.
Our Services in Beverly Hills
Absolute Maintenance & Consulting provides all seven of its services serving Beverly Hills.
Water Damage Restoration
In a home with a basement, our water damage restoration work starts at the lowest level, where water from anywhere in the house ends up. That includes storm water running down a garage ramp or into a lightwell.
Water Intrusion Testing
Our water intrusion testing uses thermal imaging and moisture mapping to find where water gets through a basement wall, a patio over a room or a parapet.
Waterproofing
Our waterproofing work covers basement walls, patios and pool decks over living space, and the flat roofs behind parapets. For walls below grade, see our basement waterproofing options.
Stucco Repair
On older period homes, our stucco repair work focuses on walls under shallow eaves, which take rain directly, and the joints around ironwork.
Mold Remediation
Our mold remediation work in finished basements starts with the water source, because rooms below grade dry slowly.
Fire Damage Restoration
Water used on an upper-floor fire runs down through the house, so our fire damage restoration service dries the rooms below it, down to the basement.
Commercial Restoration and Waterproofing
Our commercial restoration and waterproofing work serves owners and managers of apartment buildings south of Wilshire and of retail and office buildings in the Golden Triangle.
Why Beverly Hills Homes Take On Water
Beverly Hills homes take on water in three local ways: through walls and floors below grade, through patios and pool decks built over rooms, and through the roofs and walls of older period homes.
Basements, Lightwells and Subterranean Garages
Rooms below grade take on water through their walls, their lightwells and the ramps that lead down to them. Beverly Hills’ zoning code has detailed rules for basements, lightwells and subterranean parking, and it leaves basements out of a home’s counted floor area. A basement wall has soil against it all year. When its outside waterproofing fails, or a lightwell fills with rain faster than it empties, water comes through the wall or the floor edge.
Patios and Pool Decks Over Rooms
A patio or pool deck built over a room or a garage is a roof, and it leaks like one. The city’s zoning code even has a rule for decks built over the driveway to a subterranean garage. The tile can look fine while water gets past a failed membrane, then stains the ceiling below. Our deck waterproofing work repairs the layer under the surface.
Older Period Homes
Older period homes take on water through their roofs and walls. The City of Beverly Hills’ historic resources survey notes how much period revival architecture the city has, and describes the Spanish Colonial style as red tile roofs with little or no eave overhang, parapets and ironwork on windows and balconies. With little overhang, rain runs straight down the stucco. Parapets hold water at their caps and corners. Every ironwork anchor in a wall is one more way in.
Basements, pool decks and period roofs all leak differently. We find where yours does.
What Leak Repair and Restoration Cost in Beverly Hills
An inspection in Beverly Hills costs $375 to $1,500, and repairs are priced in a written estimate once we know where the water gets in.
| Beverly Hills situation | Price |
|---|---|
| Basic Inspection, a home or unit up to 3,000 sq. ft. | $375 to $575 |
| Detailed Inspection, a home up to 3,000 sq. ft. | $575 to $775 |
| Multi-Unit / Larger Property Inspection, a home of 3,500 to 10,000 sq. ft. or several buildings | $975 to $1,500 |
| Water Intrusion Testing, to prove a patio, pool deck or basement leak | $1,275 to $1,850+ |
| Complex Water Testing | $1,950 to $2,600+ |
| Small mold remediation, such as a finished basement up to 3,000 sq. ft., containment included | $2,275 to $2,900 |
| Waterproofing repair, medium project (3,000 to 10,000 sq. ft.) | $3,000 to $10,000 |
| Waterproofing repair, large project (10,000 to 50,000 sq. ft.) | $10,000 to $50,000 |
| Large waterproofing project | $50,000 to $150,000+ |
Book a Beverly Hills inspection: call (310) 678-4345 or schedule it online.
Beverly Hills Neighborhoods We Serve
We serve all of Beverly Hills, and its parts differ by terrain and building type.
The Flats
The Flats, between Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards, is where most residents live. With no slope above, leaks here come through roofs, windows and stucco.
Hillside Streets North of Sunset
The hillside streets north of Sunset are in the city’s Hillside Area, where runoff from the slope above can reach an uphill wall or a basement.
Trousdale Estates
Trousdale Estates is a 410-acre neighborhood developed mostly in the 1950s and early 1960s. Its 14-foot height limit, in force since 1987, keeps new houses to one story under wide roofs.
Benedict and Coldwater Canyons
Benedict and Coldwater canyons climb north from the city into the Beverly Hills Post Office area: 90210 addresses, but inside the City of Los Angeles.
South of Wilshire Boulevard
South of Wilshire Boulevard, lots are smaller and apartment buildings more common than anywhere else in the city, so a leak in one unit can show up in another.
The other Westside communities we serve, including Bel Air and Brentwood, are on our areas we serve page.
Get a written Beverly Hills estimate once we find where the water gets in.
Custom Home Experience in Beverly Hills
Cameron Figgins, our founder, provided water intrusion consultation for entertainment-industry clients from 2008 to 2014. That work covered water damage, weatherproofing and mold remediation in custom homes in Hollywood Hills, Bel Air, Beverly Hills and Studio City. Beverly Hills was one of the places that work was done.
Beverly Hills FAQs
Who issues permits for water damage repairs in Beverly Hills?
The City of Beverly Hills does, through its own Building and Safety division, not the City of Los Angeles. One exception catches people out: homes in Benedict Canyon, Coldwater Canyon and other hills north of the city can have 90210 addresses but sit in the City of Los Angeles, where LADBS issues permits. We check which one applies at the inspection.
Can you find a leak under a patio or pool deck without tearing it up?
Usually, yes. Thermal imaging and moisture mapping show where water is spreading under the surface and in the ceiling below, before anything is opened. When the entry point has to be proven, water testing wets one area at a time until the leak shows. Then we open only what the repair needs.
Does a musty smell in a finished basement mean mold?
It can, and it usually means moisture is getting in somewhere. Rooms below grade dry slowly, so a small leak behind a finished wall can feed mold long before anything shows. We start with a mold inspection, find and fix the water source, then remove the mold under containment.
Water Coming In? Call Now
Call (310) 678-4345 or book an inspection online anywhere in Beverly Hills.