Hiram was incorporated in 1891 on the Southern Railway line between Atlanta and Birmingham, and its old Main Street storefronts still face the tracks. The city is small, about 4,900 people at the 2020 census, but it grew more than 160 percent in the 2000s and another 39 percent in the 2010s, and the retail strip along Highway 278 serves the whole east side of Paulding County. The housing is almost all 1990s through 2010s: two-stories on crawl spaces and basements in subdivisions off Hiram-Acworth Highway and Bill Carruth Parkway, at about 965 feet on the ridges between the Sweetwater and Pumpkinvine creek drainages.
The Silver Comet Trail has a trailhead in the middle of town on the old rail grade, and the low ground on either side of that grade is where a storm's runoff collects.
This site connects Hiram homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The scope comes after the provider has been through the house.
A basement pit that overflowed when a summer storm took the power is sump pump failure cleanup. A crawl space that held water after runoff came in at the low corner of the block wall is crawl space water extraction. A tank that rusted through in the garage of a 2004 two-story is water heater leak cleanup on the floor and the wall it shares with the house.
A rebuild inside the city is permitted through the City of Hiram, and outside the limits through Paulding County. Water service comes from the county system, which can turn the meter at the street when a valve inside will not close.
Call (470) 574-4769 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Hiram.
Standing water pulled off a finished floor, a slab garage, or a lower level, then meter readings to show which rooms it reached.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by the readings, running through a humid Georgia week until framing, subfloor, and drywall hit their targets.
Water pumped from under a Kennesaw house after clay runoff or a plumbing leak, then joists, insulation, and vapor barrier dealt with.
A finished or daylight basement that took on rain or a failed line, pumped out and dried behind the drywall and under the carpet pad.
The rooms a split supply line soaked, from a hard-freeze night to a failed fitting in the attic, pumped and dried once the valve is closed.
Attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a summer thunderstorm or a tropical storm sent rain through the roof.
Cleanup after a basement pit overflowed in a power outage or a stuck float, with the wall system and flooring dried, not just the puddle.
A tank that failed in a garage, a basement corner, or a second-floor closet, and the flooring and ceiling below it dried out.