Aventura Water Damage Help for Condo Towers

Aventura grew up from the 1970s along the Intracoastal Waterway, and most of it is condo towers. Water damage anywhere in Aventura, high up on Williams Island or on the ground floor beside the lake at Biscayne Lake Gardens, is a job South Florida Restoration Co can get started, whether you’re home or calling from out of town.

Snowbird units and summer leaks

Close to 7,900 Aventura homes are kept for seasonal or occasional use. If those units sit closed through the summer, they’re empty in the months when the AC works hardest, the rain is heaviest and hurricane season is under way. A unit closed up from May to November can drip for weeks with nobody inside to see it.

Often the neighbor below finds it first, as a stain on their ceiling or water around a light fixture. By then the water has usually soaked the floor, the lower walls and the closets in the unit above. The likely source is a clogged AC condensate line, a closet water heater, the washing machine line or the feed to a toilet. Water from an AC leak often travels well past the air handler closet.

If you’re away, the building staff can help. Give us the management office number and the name of whoever holds your key, and the crew can get in as soon as the source is shut off.

Aventura towers at 30 and 40 years old

Eight in ten homes here are in 50-plus-unit towers. Half the housing was built between 1980 and 1999, and 1989 is the median build year, so most buildings are now past 30 years old. At that age, shutoff valves can seize, supply lines get brittle and an older water heater can start to seep at the base.

In a tower, water runs along the slab and down the plumbing chase, so one failed line can reach two or three floors. Each wet unit gets its own readings, and ceilings below often hold water above the drywall where it can’t be seen. Dripping from the floor overhead? The first steps are in dealing with water from a neighbor’s unit.

Ground floors after record rain

In June 2024 the mayor said Aventura had more than 12 inches of rain in 24 hours, a third more than it usually gets in all of June. At Biscayne Lake Gardens, the condo complex around its lake stayed flooded the next day, and first-floor residents watched the water keep rising. Long-time residents there say that with this much concrete, the water has nowhere to go, Local 10 News reported. The mayor said the city keeps adding fixed pumps every year.

The city also lists the ocean, the Oleta River and Biscayne Bay as the reasons Aventura is exposed to storm surge, high surf and king tides. Water that comes in under a door from a lake, a street or the bay is handled as flood cleanup. Soaked carpet, pad and lower drywall get pulled, and everything left standing gets scrubbed before the drying starts.

ZIP code 33180, Aventura and Ojus

Aventura and the Ojus side of 33180 are both covered. Don’t see your ZIP? Call anyway and we’ll check your address.

Give us the building name, your floor, whether you’re in the unit or away, and where the water showed up first. If management has already shut something off, say what and when.