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- (904) 710-9545
- Available 24 hours
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When unexpected water damage strikes, a quick and effective response is essential to protect your property. First Coast Contracting delivers trusted water mitigation services in Jacksonville, providing homeowners with peace of mind and fast recovery after leaks, floods, and storm damage. Our team combines experience, precision, and care to restore your home and prevent long-term problems caused by moisture.
With more than 50 years of combined experience, we understand how stressful water damage can be. Whether it’s a burst pipe in a kitchen, a sewage backup, or stormwater intrusion, our specialists are ready to respond 24/7. Serving Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Orange Park, and surrounding areas, we prioritize your safety, comfort, and property value.
Water mitigation refers to the process of reducing or preventing further damage caused by water. It’s not just about drying out your home. It involves removing standing water, assessing structural risks, sanitizing affected areas, and taking proactive steps to prevent mold and future issues. Proper mitigation helps you save on costly repairs and avoid permanent damage to your home’s foundation, flooring, walls, and belongings.
We know homeowners in Northeast Florida need fast and reliable help when water damage happens. Here’s what sets First Coast Contracting apart:
Water emergencies don’t follow a schedule. That’s why we’re available around the clock to answer your call. From downtown Jacksonville to the beaches and over to St. Augustine, our crews are positioned to respond fast and arrive fully equipped.
Our technicians are IICRC-certified and trained in the latest mitigation techniques. We don’t just remove water — we assess moisture levels, inspect hidden damage, and use industrial-grade drying systems to ensure your home is thoroughly protected.
After mitigation, you shouldn’t have to hire multiple contractors to rebuild. We offer full restoration and remodeling services, so whether your drywall needs replacing or your kitchen requires a complete rebuild, we handle it all under one roof.
Navigating insurance claims can be frustrating, especially when you’re dealing with damage. Our team works directly with your insurance provider to document the loss, submit reports, and ensure a smoother claims process.
Every property and situation is different, but our water mitigation services follow a proven process that ensures consistency, safety, and efficiency.
Once you call, we gather information about the incident and immediately dispatch a team to your property. Our quick arrival helps limit damage and speeds up the recovery timeline.
We conduct a thorough inspection using advanced moisture meters and infrared technology. This allows us to detect water behind walls, under floors, and in hard-to-reach areas. Accurate mapping helps us target the right areas without unnecessary demolition.
Using powerful, commercial-grade pumps and vacuums, we remove all standing water from the affected areas. Fast extraction is critical to prevent structural damage and reduce the risk of mold growth.
Once the water is gone, we use air movers and dehumidifiers to dry out the space completely. Depending on the materials and structure, this process may take a few days, during which we monitor moisture levels regularly to ensure complete drying.
Water damage can bring harmful bacteria or contaminants, especially in cases involving flood or sewage water. We clean, disinfect, and deodorize all affected areas to make your home safe again.
If materials like drywall, flooring, or cabinetry have been damaged, we provide full restoration services. From minor repairs to complete remodeling, our team ensures your home is restored to its original condition or better.
First Coast Contracting is a locally owned company based right here in Northeast Florida. We take pride in helping homeowners throughout Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra, Fleming Island, Nocatee, and Palm Coast recover from water-related disasters. Our deep understanding of local weather patterns, building codes, and regional risks gives us an edge in delivering fast, accurate, and reliable service.
Living in coastal Florida has its perks — sunshine, beaches, and beautiful weather — but it also comes with water-related risks. Some of the most common sources of water damage we respond to include:
Whether it’s a heavy rain in St. Augustine or a plumbing failure in Orange Park, we’re equipped to manage the problem and protect your home.
Beyond mitigation, we believe in helping our clients protect their homes long-term. After your water mitigation service is complete, our team will provide guidance on how to reduce future risks. This may include recommendations for plumbing upgrades, drainage improvements, or waterproofing solutions.
We’re not just here for the emergency — we’re here to support you through every phase of recovery and beyond.
You should call as soon as possible — ideally within the first 24 hours. The longer water sits, the greater the chance of mold, rot, and permanent damage.
Most homeowner’s insurance policies cover water damage caused by sudden and accidental events, like burst pipes or storm intrusion. We work directly with your insurance provider to help maximize your coverage and reduce out-of-pocket expenses.
The timeframe depends on the extent of the damage. Most projects take between 3 to 7 days, including drying time. If significant repairs are needed, the restoration phase may add more time.
Yes. Mitigation focuses on stopping the damage and preventing further issues (like mold), while restoration involves rebuilding and repairing damaged areas. We offer both services to ensure seamless recovery.
Yes, we serve many surrounding communities including St. Augustine, Orange Park, Ponte Vedra, Fleming Island, Nocatee, and Palm Coast. Our team is ready to respond across the Northeast Florida region.
Call us now or contact us online for 24/7 emergency service. Our certified team provides prompt, professional water mitigation services in Jacksonville and beyond. Whether it’s a midnight leak in Nocatee or a flooded garage in Ponte Vedra, we’re ready when you need us most.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to