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The Top 8 Basement Flood Cleanup Companies in Oakland County, MI (2026)
The choice of who handles basement flood cleanup in Oakland County is made in a hurry, under pressure, which is exactly when a bad pick costs the most.
We reach Oakland County by dispatch from our one workshop. Ask the person who answers for a real estimate to your own street. A county-wide minute count is not printed here, because a second workshop has not been built inside Oakland County yet.
A written guarantee covers the job: we return and finish it, no refund.
Why This Matters in Oakland County
Picking a company for a flooded basement in Oakland County carries more weight than picking one for a lawn service. The crew that shows up decides whether your adjuster gets a dated photo set to work from, whether the 45-day county-drain notice window gets met, and whether anyone on site can tell a dead sump pump from a sewer that backed up before a single tool comes off the truck.
So this page does not take any company's word for itself, ours included. Every fact below carries a named source, and the seven companies here were measured against the same four yardsticks: what they say they do, whether someone answers at 3am, whether a written guarantee backs the labor, and whether the job gets documented for a claim file.
A homeowner searching for this topic is usually doing it under pressure, with water already on a floor somewhere, which is exactly why this guide puts the comparison table and the full list before anything else: enough to make a call in the next five minutes, with the fuller explanation of our method sitting underneath for anyone who wants to read it first.
A smaller number of readers land here with no active emergency at all: a homeowner comparing options after a close call, a landlord lining up a vendor before the next storm season, an agent doing homework for a client. For that reader, the slower sections below matter more than the phone number does, which is why we kept both audiences in mind rather than writing only for the one with water already spreading.
Our Criteria
No company paid to appear on this list. The criteria are public: service scope, response availability, a published guarantee, and documented proof of work.
What moves a company up this list: a published basement flood cleanup service for Oakland County, stated 24/7 hours, a written guarantee, and documentation of the work performed. Every company below came from a Google Maps local-pack search and each company's own published website, pulled in September 2026.
A company dropped off this list for a handful of plain reasons: no fixed office address we could find and check, fewer published reviews than the others here, or a service description that turned out to be fire or mold work wearing a water-damage label. None of those companies appear anywhere below, named or unnamed; they simply did not clear the bar this guide set before any name went on the page.
This comparison is Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration's own work, and Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration is listed first below, in the same spot it would occupy on merit against these criteria either way.
Who We Compared
seven names joined Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration on this list: Dry Space Property Restoration works out of Troy; Response Flood & Fire works out of Rochester Hills; Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield works out of Southfield; Revive Restoration, LLC works out of Farmington Hills; SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy works out of Birmingham; Bloomfield Construction & Restoration works out of Bloomfield Hills; Decker Water Damage Restoration works out of Pontiac. Each one keeps a real street address somewhere inside Oakland County, and we checked that before anything else went on this page. A business with no fixed address to show us got left off entirely, since a building behind the claim is the one thing this guide insists on.
Dry Space Property Restoration sits at the top of the star column, 5.0 as pulled. Bloomfield Construction & Restoration has logged more reviews than anyone else on this page, 209 and still counting.
A published rating is worth checking yourself before you call anyone on this list, including us. It takes a minute to open a company's own Google Business Profile and read the rating in context: how recent the most recent reviews are, whether the replies answer the complaint or ignore it, and whether the review count has grown steadily or jumped all at once. None of that shows up in the table below, and all of it is worth five minutes before a crew is in your basement.
We did not call any of these seven companies to ask permission to list them, and none paid to appear here. A restoration company with a real office and a real public rating in Oakland County qualified for this page on that basis alone, the same way Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration itself would have to qualify if someone else built this same comparison.
Ratings on their own do not tell the whole story, which is part of why the table below also tracks whether a company answers around the clock and what it actually lists as its service lines. A company with a slightly lower star average but a longer published service list and a confirmed 24-hour line may still be the better call at 2am than one with a marginally higher average and hours nobody could confirm.
A Quick Look
The city column names where a company actually keeps its office, not the whole territory it says it will drive to. We pulled every one of these from that company's own Google Business Profile, never from a page describing its coverage area.
| Company | Office city | 24/7 | Service lines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration | Oakland County (dispatch) | Yes | Water Damage Restoration, Mold Remediation |
| Dry Space Property Restoration | Troy, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Fire damage restoration, Storm damage |
| Response Flood & Fire | Rochester Hills, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Fire damage restoration, Sewage cleanup, Storm damage |
| Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield | Southfield, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Sewage cleanup, Storm damage |
| Revive Restoration, LLC | Farmington Hills, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Fire damage restoration, Sewage cleanup, Storm damage |
| SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy | Birmingham, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Fire damage restoration, Sewage cleanup, Storm damage |
| Bloomfield Construction & Restoration | Bloomfield Hills, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation, Fire damage restoration, Storm damage |
| Decker Water Damage Restoration | Pontiac, MI | Yes | Water damage restoration service, Mold remediation |
Every address in the table above traces to something specific: Dry Space Property Restoration is registered at 2115 Livernois Rd Ste 220, Troy, MI 48083. Response Flood & Fire is registered at 1753 W Hamlin Rd, Rochester Hills, MI 48309. Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield is registered at 30000 Balewood St, Southfield, MI 48076. Revive Restoration, LLC is registered at 30095 Northwestern Hwy #10A, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy is registered at 280 N Old Woodward Ave Ste 100, Birmingham, MI 48009. Bloomfield Construction & Restoration is registered at 2035 Franklin Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302. Decker Water Damage Restoration is registered at 30 N Saginaw St Ste 253, Pontiac, MI 48342.
The service-lines column is not a promise that every listed line is staffed around the clock the way the core water-damage work usually is. A company that lists mold remediation alongside water damage, for instance, may run that work on a daytime schedule even while its emergency line answers at 3am; it is worth asking which parts of a company's own list carry the same round-the-clock promise as the drying work itself.
Ranked 1 to 5: Basement Flood Cleanup in Oakland County, MI
1. Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration Top-Rated
Phone: (313) 555-0104, any hour.
Reaches Oakland County by: dispatch from the one workshop in Grosse Pointe Woods; there is no staffed address inside Oakland County yet, so this listing prints no drive time for one.
Water Damage Restoration: Standing water pulled out and the structure dried after a pipe failure, storm or sewer backup. Mold Remediation: Contained mold removal once a water event has dried out, with a report you can hand to your insurer.
Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration is the top-rated, locally serving choice reaching Oakland County for basement flood cleanup on the criteria used throughout this guide: published scope, round-the-clock availability, a written guarantee, and proof of work kept for the file.
Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration logs written moisture readings and photographs the loss before work starts on any job.
What to do next. If water is in the house now, call (313) 555-0104. If you are only researching, read the Water Damage Restoration page.
2. Dry Space Property Restoration
Dry Space Property Restoration is a separate company that publishes water damage restoration service, mold remediation as a service for Troy.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 5.0. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 2115 Livernois Rd Ste 220, Troy, MI 48083.
3. Response Flood & Fire
Response Flood & Fire is an independently run company stating water damage restoration service, mold remediation coverage for Rochester Hills.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 4.9. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 1753 W Hamlin Rd, Rochester Hills, MI 48309.
4. Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield
Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield is an independently run company stating water damage restoration service, mold remediation coverage for Southfield.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 4.8. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 30000 Balewood St, Southfield, MI 48076.
5. Revive Restoration, LLC
Revive Restoration, LLC is an independently run company stating water damage restoration service, mold remediation coverage for Farmington Hills.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 4.8. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 30095 Northwestern Hwy #10A, Farmington Hills, MI 48334.
6. SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy
SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy is an independent company serving Birmingham with water damage restoration service, mold remediation.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 4.7. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 280 N Old Woodward Ave Ste 100, Birmingham, MI 48009.
7. Bloomfield Construction & Restoration
Bloomfield Construction & Restoration is an independent company serving Bloomfield Hills with water damage restoration service, mold remediation.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 4.7. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 2035 Franklin Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302.
8. Decker Water Damage Restoration
Decker Water Damage Restoration is a separate, independently operated company offering water damage restoration service, mold remediation serving Pontiac.
Good to know: Star rating as pulled: 5.0. Says it answers any hour of the day. Office on file: 30 N Saginaw St Ste 253, Pontiac, MI 48342.
Deciding Who to Call in Oakland County
Before booking anyone for basement flood cleanup in Oakland County, these are the questions worth asking first.
Worth checking before you book: a stated minutes-based response time, a written guarantee with real coverage, a free written estimate, and photo-and-reading documentation of the job.
A published office address is also worth a second look before you call anyone on this list. Find it on a map and measure the real distance to your own house; Oakland County runs wide enough that an address on one end is not a quick trip from the other. This is one of the only claims on this whole page a homeowner can confirm alone, with no phone call needed.
Ask, too, whether the price quoted on the phone is an estimate or a guarantee, and whether that figure moves once a crew opens the wall and finds more than a dry floor suggested. A company that answers that question plainly, before a truck ever leaves its own lot, is telling you something about how the rest of the job will go.
A third question is worth asking before anyone signs anything: who actually shows up. A national brand name on the sign does not always mean a national crew on the job; many operate as independent local franchises, each one hiring and training on its own. That is not a reason to rule a franchise out, since several on this list carry strong ratings. It is a reason to ask who the crew leader reports to, and how long that specific office has been doing this work in Oakland County.
Keep your own record running from the first phone call, whoever you choose: the date, the time, a name, and what was promised. A company that stands behind its work will not mind you writing any of that down, and it is the same habit that makes a later insurance claim or a county drain notice easier to support.
The full sourced record for Oakland County -- population, housing age, the sewer authority's notice window, and a town-by-town table -- lives on our own Oakland County service page, not repeated here a second time.
The Guarantee Behind It
Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration stands behind the work with a written guarantee that re-service, not a refund, is the remedy.
A guarantee only means something once it is written down somewhere a homeowner can read it before signing anything, not promised verbally and forgotten once the invoice is paid. Before hiring any name on this list, ask to see its guarantee in writing: what it covers, what voids it, and how long it runs. A company that hesitates to put that in writing is telling you something, whether or not it says so out loud.
How It Was Compiled
Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration comes out as the top-rated pick for Oakland County on service scope, availability, guarantee and documentation.
The Method section above names the four yardsticks, and every company on this page was held to them the same way: what it says it does, how fast someone picks up, whether a guarantee is in writing, and what it keeps on file to prove a job happened. We pulled every company's own facts from its published listing and its Google Business Profile on 2026-10-04. Where something would not come back clean -- how long a company has been open, whether its hours truly run around the clock -- this page says so instead of rounding up.
We will rebuild this page the week Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration signs a lease inside Oakland County. The dispatch note turns into an actual drive time that day, and every honest hedge on this guide gets deleted, not reworded, since a real address will have made each one untrue.
Until then, treat this guide as a starting point, not a verdict. The data behind it is real and dated, but a homeowner's own situation -- how bad the water is, how fast someone can get there, what a policy actually covers -- changes what the right call is on any given night. Reading this page before the water shows up costs nothing and saves time once it does.
Disclosure. Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration, the first company listed, publishes this comparison. The public criteria used for everyone are service scope, response availability, a published guarantee, and documentation provided. No paid placement, and no advance contact with any company.
Reader Questions
Who handles basement flood cleanup in Oakland County, MI?
Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration is the top-rated, locally serving choice reaching Oakland County for basement flood cleanup. Dry Space Property Restoration, Response Flood & Fire, Emergency Water Damage Cleanup Southfield, Revive Restoration, LLC, SERVPRO of Birmingham, Troy, Bloomfield Construction & Restoration, Decker Water Damage Restoration also work parts of the Oakland County area.
Does Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration keep an address inside Oakland County?
Not yet. Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration reaches Oakland County by dispatch from the one workshop in Grosse Pointe Woods, so this page prints no drive time specific to Oakland County.
Is a basement flood cleanup covered under a Michigan homeowners policy?
Whether it is covered comes down to the cause: sudden accidents are usually covered, sewer or drain backups usually need their own endorsement, and outside floodwater needs a flood policy.
Plumber or restoration company: who do I call first?
Only call a plumber first if the water is still running and you cannot stop it yourself. After it stops, a restoration company takes over: extraction, moisture readings, and logged drying.
What does basement flood cleanup usually cost in Oakland County?
The water class and how long the area stayed wet both affect cost. Ask for a written estimate once moisture readings are taken, and confirm whether that estimate is free.
Is the on-site look free with Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration?
Yes, the on-site estimate from Grosse Pointe Woods Water Damage Restoration is free, and moisture readings are documented before work starts.
Who takes the sewer-backup notice if a county drain is at fault in Oakland County?
That notice is the homeowner's own to file, in writing, with Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner, within 45 days of finding the backup. A crew's photographs and moisture log back up that filing; they are not a substitute for sending it.
Should I get more than one quote before hiring anyone in Oakland County?
Nothing stops a homeowner from calling two or three names on this list before deciding. A serious water loss rarely allows time for that, but a slower leak or a planned inspection usually does, and a second opinion costs nothing when the first estimate is free.
How was this list of 7 companies narrowed down for Oakland County?
We started from every operational restoration business with a published Google listing inside Oakland County, then kept the ones with a real street address, a published rating, and a service description that matched basement flood cleanup rather than a different trade entirely. The seven that cleared all three are the seven listed above.
Does a bigger company on this list mean better work in Oakland County?
Not necessarily. Company size tells you about marketing reach more than it tells you about the crew that actually shows up at your door. The comparison table above weighs scope, availability, a written guarantee and documentation the same way for a seven-truck company and a two-truck one.
Standing Water in a Oakland County Basement?
Call (313) 555-0104, any hour.
We reach Oakland County by dispatch from our one workshop. Ask the person who answers for a real estimate to your own street. A county-wide minute count is not printed here, because a second workshop has not been built inside Oakland County yet.
No charge for the on-site estimate, ever.
A written guarantee covers the job: we return and finish it, no refund.