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Water damage restoration and cleanup in Walled Lake, Michigan

Walled Lake began as a 1920s resort town, and many of its lake cottages became year-round homes. We serve homes all over Walled Lake, old and new, with an emergency team close by.

Call 248-845-0000Request help
From our office
18.6 miles, about 27 min
ZIP code
48390
Area codes
248 · 947

Our work in Walled Lake

One of our emergency teams is based in the Novi area, minutes away.

  • Residential
  • Water damage

Lake homes, cottages and everything between

We serve homes all over Walled Lake: cottages that became year-round houses, homes on the lake, and the newer subdivisions. One of our emergency teams is based nearby, and we keep a bigger crew for the larger houses.

Older cottages often hide trouble once water gets in: crawl spaces, additions built over the years, and floors that have been redone more than once. We find where the water went with moisture meters and thermal imaging before anything is torn out.

How fast we reach Walled Lake

Our office in Southfield is 14.2 miles from the middle of Walled Lake: about 18.6 miles by road, or 27 minutes when traffic is light. Across Oakland County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night, and when you call we give you a real arrival time.

From Southfield, crews take I-696 west to the M-5 Haggerty Connector, then Pontiac Trail or Maple Road into the city.

  1. You call

    A person answers 248-845-0000, day or night, and asks what happened and where.

  2. A crew heads to Walled Lake

    Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 18.6 miles from our office.

  3. On site in about 60 minutes

    The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.

Why Walled Lake homes and buildings flood

When homes in Walled Lake were built

54%before 1980

  1. 1939 or earlier: 4% of homes
  2. 1940s: 1% of homes
  3. 1950s: 16% of homes
  4. 1960s: 7% of homes
  5. 1970s: 25% of homes
  6. 1980s: 18% of homes
  7. 1990s: 17% of homes
  8. 2000s: 9% of homes
  9. 2010s: less than 1% of homes
  10. 2020 or later: 3% of homes

Median year built: 1978, across 3,478 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.

Households that asked FEMA for help
  • August 2014 flood (DR-4195)2
  • June 2021 flood (DR-4607)5
  • August 2023 storms (DR-4757)22

Registrations from Walled Lake mailing addresses. A registration is a household asking for help, not proof of damage, and mailing addresses don’t follow city limits exactly. FEMA, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance data, pulled 2026-10-12.

  • Between two rivers

    Walled Lake sits on the divide between the Huron and Rouge river watersheds: its north side drains toward Wolverine Lake, its south side into Walled Lake itself, 670 acres and more than 50 feet deep.

    Source: City of Walled Lake, 2014 Master Plan

  • Cottages turned year-round homes

    By the mid-1920s Walled Lake was known as the Playground of Detroit, and many of its summer cottages near the lake became year-round homes.

    Source: City of Walled Lake, 2014 Master Plan

  • August 11, 2021

    A storm uprooted trees near Maple and Commerce roads; on three subdivision streets trees fell onto roofs and power lines snapped.

    Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit

  • A water main break in 2025

    When a 42-inch regional water main broke on 14 Mile Road on September 25, 2025, Walled Lake went under a boil-water advisory until early October.

    Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit

Services in Walled Lake

Walled Lake's businesses are along Pontiac Trail, Maple Road and the historic downtown by the lake, with industry along Ladd Road; the Michigan Air Line Trail runs through town.

Local resources for Walled Lake property owners

A village in 1929 and a city in 1954. About 7,299 people live in Walled Lake (Census, 2020–2024 estimate). If a public sewer backed up into your building, Michigan law asks you to give written notice to the agency that runs the sewer (the city, township or county) within 45 days of finding the damage.

Walled Lake neighborhoods

  • Downtown
  • North Walled Lake
  • Gamma/Oak Grove
  • Fawn Lake Estates
Walled Lake ZIP codes, with housing age and FEMA history (1)
Walled Lake ZIP codes, with the median year homes were built and FEMA aid registrations after each flood
ZIP codeMedian home builtFEMA 2014FEMA 2021FEMA 2023
4839019895955

ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.

Walled Lake questions

How fast can you get to Walled Lake?

Walled Lake is about 27 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (18.6 miles by road). Across Oakland County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night. Call 248-845-0000 and we'll give you a real arrival time.

Which Walled Lake ZIP codes do you cover?

Every part of Walled Lake, including 48390. If you're near the edge of Walled Lake, call and we'll confirm right away.

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  • On site in about 60 minutes
  • We work with your insurer

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