Free visual inspection and a written scope of work before any mitigation begins - photos, moisture readings, and drying logs go in your claim file
The scope we write is the scope we bill. Anything new gets shown to you, in writing, before we touch it.
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AfterFast, Reliable Water Damage Restoration Across Fort Myers
Water damage restoration in Fort Myers typically costs $2,800-$7,500 for a standard Category 2 or 3 water event in a 1,500-2,200 sq ft concrete block home, with emergency extraction alone running $650-$1,400. Our crews reach most Fort Myers neighborhoods within 60-90 minutes of your call, and you’ll receive a written price before any equipment comes off the truck. Call (629) 213-4606 and a live person answers, day or night.
Fort Myers isn’t a template market. Between the Caloosahatchee’s tidal surge, a wet season that dumps over 4.5 inches per month from June through September, and the snowbird vacancy calendar, the water damage we see here follows patterns you won’t find in Orlando or Tampa. We know which McGregor Boulevard homes still have original 1970s aluminum wiring behind the drywall. We know what a canal-front property off Iona Road needs when Gulf saltwater has wicked into the block. If you’re standing in a wet living room right now, call us first, then keep reading.
Why DryMark Restoration Is Fort Myers’s Preferred Water Damage Restoration Company
DryMark Restoration was founded in 2011 by a former claims adjuster who spent years watching homeowners lose legitimate water claims because the documentation didn’t hold up. That’s the entire reason the company exists. We work under The Haven Standard, and Haven Standard, Clause 1 is non-negotiable: a written price is delivered before anyone starts work. No scope-creep additions once the crew is inside your Fort Myers home. No handshake estimates that turn into surprises.
Every technician who arrives at a Fort Myers property is background-checked, uniformed, and credentialed. Alicia Brennan leads the team, and she’s built the operation around one habit: documenting what we find, what we did, and what the numbers showed. You get a photo record on every visit, room-by-room moisture readings, and a daily drying log that your adjuster can actually use. That matters in Fort Myers, where post-Ian insurance claims are still being litigated and insurers scrutinize every line item.
We’re independently owned and operated. Dispatch is coordinated from our South Florida office, and our crews serve Fort Myers, North Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, and Estero directly. The phone never goes to voicemail. When water is moving through your ceiling at 2 a.m., a live person picks up.
Our Water Damage Restoration Services in Fort Myers
Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water in a Fort Myers home doesn’t wait. Within 48-72 hours, given our 75%+ year-round average humidity, mold can colonize drywall and padding that would dry out harmlessly in Phoenix or Denver. Emergency extraction in Fort Myers usually runs $650-$1,400 depending on affected square footage and water classification. We run truck-mounted and XPOWER extraction units, map the affected area with moisture meters, and record the readings before and after. You’ll see the numbers. That’s the point.
Structural Drying & Dehumidification
Structural drying in Fort Myers means fighting vapor pressure differential: the air inside your walls wants to hold moisture because the air outside already holds so much. We deploy Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers, B-Air air movers, and Injectidry wall-drying mats in a configuration based on psychrometric data, which is just the relationship between temperature, humidity, and dew point inside your specific structure. A typical drying cycle for a Category 2 water event in a concrete block home takes 3-5 days, with daily moisture readings logged the entire time. That log is yours. It’s also what your insurer sees.
Flood Cleanup
Fort Myers flood cleanup after Hurricane Ian wasn’t standard. Ten to fifteen feet of Gulf storm surge pushed into canal-front subdivisions like those off McGregor and into Fort Myers Beach, carrying salt, fuel, and sewage. Saltwater embeds chlorides into concrete block and corrodes electrical panels, aluminum wiring, and rebar from the inside out. Our flood cleanup protocol in Fort Myers includes chloride testing on affected masonry, panel inspection with documented photos, and a decontamination sequence matched to the specific water category. We don’t treat surge-damaged wiring as “just wet.” We open the panel and look for pitting. If it’s there, it gets replaced, not dried.
Burst Pipe Restoration
When a supply line splits above a 1980s concrete block home off Summerlin Road, the water doesn’t pool the way it does in a wood-frame house. It travels through wall cavities, runs down furring strips, and collects inside block cells where you can’t see it. We trace the moisture path with thermal imaging and invasive probes, not visual inspection. Burst pipe restoration in Fort Myers typically runs $1,800-$4,200 including extraction, drying, and any necessary drywall removal. If the pipe burst while you were up north for the summer, the damage is compounded: six months of slow wicking through attic insulation changes the scope completely. We write one scope that covers what we find, not a baseline quote that balloons later.
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BeforeAfterHome Types We Restore Across Fort Myers
Fort Myers housing stock isn’t uniform, and the restoration approach shouldn’t be either. Along McGregor Boulevard and through Iona, we work on 1970s-1990s concrete block homes with original aluminum wiring and flat or low-slope roofs that peel under sustained hurricane winds. East of I-75 in Lehigh Acres, we restore manufactured and mobile homes that often sustain total losses rather than partial damage, pushing the job toward pack-out and debris removal instead of structural drying. On canal-front properties near the Caloosahatchee, we run chloride-specific protocols that inland restoration crews never face. Whether it’s a two-story block home in the McGregor corridor or a double-wide off Gunnery Road, the service is the same: documented, priced in writing, and backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise.
Professional-Grade Equipment, Documented to Industry Standards
We run Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and B-Air air movers on most Fort Myers drying jobs, with Injectidry wall-drying mats for cavity drying and XPOWER extraction units for fast water removal. Every drying plan is documented to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards, which means the daily moisture logs your adjuster receives carry professional weight. You don’t have to know what a grain per pound measurement is to understand that the numbers show progress. We’ll explain each reading in plain language, but the data is there for anyone who wants to verify it.
Common Water Damage Restoration Problems We See in Fort Myers Homes
- Saltwater surge damage treated as freshwater. After Ian, many Fort Myers homeowners had Category 3 saltwater extracted with the same protocol a crew would use for a broken supply line. Saltwater embeds chlorides into block and corrodes electrical components for months after the water is gone. We test for chloride residue and inspect panels before declaring a structure dry.
- Snowbird homes leaking unnoticed from May to November. Tens of thousands of Fort Myers homes sit empty from April through November, which overlaps almost perfectly with hurricane season. A roof peel in September wicks water into attic insulation for months. By the time owners return in January, the mold bloom is established and the HVAC coils are rusted. We open these homes expecting compounded damage, not a single source.
- Manufactured homes with trapped moisture. Lehigh Acres and parts of east Fort Myers have high concentrations of manufactured homes with vapor barriers under the floor decking. Running air movers without accounting for that barrier traps moisture in the floor cavity and warps decking. We map the subfloor before setting equipment on any manufactured home.
- Assumed “musty smell” written off as age. We hear it from seasonal residents all the time: the house smells a little musty, but it’s old, it’s normal. In Fort Myers, a persistent musty odor usually means hidden attic moisture from a roof issue or a failed AC condensate line. We trace the path, find the source, and dry the actual leak, not just the symptom.
Pricing for Water Damage Restoration in Fort Myers, FL
Here’s what Fort Myers homeowners should expect to pay:
- Emergency water extraction: $650-$1,400, based on affected square footage and water category.
- Structural drying and dehumidification: $1,200-$3,800, including equipment placement and daily monitoring for 3-5 days.
- Flood cleanup (Category 3, including sewage or saltwater): $2,500-$7,500, depending on decontamination requirements and material removal.
- Burst pipe restoration: $1,800-$4,200, including extraction, drying, and drywall removal where needed.
- Roof or ceiling leak water damage: $900-$2,800, depending on whether attic insulation and ceiling drywall require replacement.
These are ranges for typical Fort Myers homes, not averages inflated by catastrophic surge claims. The factors that move a job within a range are affected square footage, water category, how long water has been present, and whether the structure is concrete block, wood frame, or manufactured. What doesn’t move the price is our mood that day. Haven Standard, Clause 1: written price before work begins. You’ll see it on paper before the first extraction unit runs. We also offer a Free Second Opinion on any written estimate. Bring a competitor’s quote, and we’ll review it line by line at no charge.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Myers
Our crews handle water damage restoration throughout Lee County. We serve North Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, and Estero with the same documented, written-price process we use in Fort Myers proper. If you’re in one of these nearby communities and standing in water, call the same number: (629) 213-4606. The response time from our South Florida dispatch is consistent across the county. You can also review our full Water Damage Restoration service details to understand exactly what a documented job should look like.
Serving Fort Myers, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Myers area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Water Damage Restoration in Fort Myers
Check within 48-72 hours of any storm that produces wind-driven rain or visible water entry, because Fort Myers’s 75%+ humidity window allows mold colonization on wet drywall within that timeframe. If you can’t physically check the home, arrange for someone to inspect and document. We’ve opened snowbird homes in January and found months-old mold blooms because a September roof peel went unnoticed. A $150 inspection is cheaper than a $7,500 remediation.
Yes, saltwater requires a chloride-specific protocol. Gulf storm surge embeds chlorides into concrete block that freshwater doesn’t, and those chlorides continue corroding rebar, electrical panels, and aluminum wiring long after the surface dries. Freshwater drying just removes moisture. Saltwater restoration also includes chloride testing, panel inspection, and often replacement of affected electrical components. If a Fort Myers canal-front home has surge damage and a crew treats it like a broken pipe, the drying plan is wrong. Call (629) 213-4606 and we’ll document what’s actually needed.
It depends on whether the floor cavity has been breached. Manufactured homes with intact vapor barriers can often be dried in place using Injectidry mats and Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers positioned above the subfloor. If water penetrated the vapor barrier and saturated insulation under the decking, pack-out is required to remove the wet material and prevent mold and warping. We map the subfloor with moisture meters before recommending either path. You’ll see the readings, not a guess.
We treat it as a compounded-damage inspection, not a standard extraction. First, we trace the moisture path using thermal imaging and invasive probes. Then we document every affected area with photos before any work begins. The scope typically includes removing saturated insulation and drywall, treating visible and hidden mold, drying the structure to pre-loss moisture levels, and replacing any corroded components. We coordinate with owners who are still up north by phone and email, with every visit photo-documented and priced in writing before work starts.
A canal-front scope in Fort Myers includes chloride testing on affected masonry, electrical panel inspection with documented photos, extraction of any standing water, structural drying with daily moisture logs, and decontamination if Category 3 water (saltwater, sewage, or both) was present. It also includes a written price before work starts, per Haven Standard, Clause 1, and a signed 365-Day Done Right Promise under The Haven Standard. If your adjuster wants a second opinion, our Free Second Opinion offer applies. Call (629) 213-4606 and we’ll walk you through it.
Call DryMark Restoration for Water Damage in Fort Myers
If water is moving through your Fort Myers home right now, don’t wait. Call (629) 213-4606. A live person answers 24/7. We’ll dispatch a crew to your neighborhood, whether that’s McGregor, Iona, Fort Myers Beach, or Lehigh Acres. You’ll get a written price before anyone starts work, a documented photo record on every visit, and daily moisture logs your insurer can actually use. That’s what a water damage restoration job in Fort Myers should look like.
Written by Alicia Brennan, Owner at DryMark Restoration, serving Fort Myers since 2011.