What happened in Highland Heights
CCS answered this water emergency in the Highland Heights area of Appleton on July 26, 2024. It became a 156-photo job, and the set here is from the first day.
The water was in a finished basement room set up as a home gym, with a treadmill, a weight machine and other equipment. The crew started by extracting water from the carpet with a wand and hose, working the room in passes.
Then the carpet was cut and rolled up and the pad pulled out, leaving the concrete slab bare with the tack strip still along the walls. Patches of wet pad were left on the floor in places as the crew worked around the heavy equipment. In a basement, carpet pad soaks up water like a sponge and rarely dries in place, so pulling it out on the first day is usually the faster and cleaner choice.
Work performed
- Water emergency response
- Water extraction from the carpet
- Carpet cut, rolled and removed
- Wet pad pulled from the slab



