Sewage Backup & Category 3 Water Cleanup in Ann Arbor, MI

Sewage Cleanup for Ann Arbor property owners

A sewage backup is classified as Category 3 black water. It carries E. coli, hepatitis A, and parasites, and every hour it sits the contamination spreads further into structure and the mold clock runs.

We have been doing sewage cleanup across Washtenaw County for years, and Ann Arbor is inside our core Ann Arbor & Washtenaw response area. We cover all 5 Ann Arbor ZIP codes (48103, 48104, 48105, 48108, 48109) and the surrounding Washtenaw County communities. We bill homeowners and commercial insurance directly.

What Ann Arbor & Washtenaw properties bring to this job

Washtenaw County carries an unusually high share of rental and student housing, which drives landlord and property-manager work alongside owner-occupied calls. Covered from the I-94 and US-23 interchange area, which puts most of the county inside a short response window.

Rental turnover drives a steady volume of landlord calls, where documentation matters as much as the remediation — the clearance report is what protects the owner at re-let and on disclosure. Turnover peaks in late summer, when properties sitting empty between tenancies are most often where a problem is first discovered.

Why it needs remediation, not cleaning

Michigan basements are especially vulnerable during heavy rain when combined sewers surcharge. Water wicks vertically into drywall and horizontally under flooring. Drying a space that was never decontaminated simply locks bacteria into the structure — which is why sewage work is remediation first and drying second.

Whatever the scope in Ann Arbor, the standard does not move: material out, surfaces treated at full dwell time, result verified in writing. The parts that matter are the ones you cannot see afterwards: whether the subfloor came out, whether the disinfectant sat for its full contact time, whether anyone tested the result. We do all three and put them in writing.