Fallen tree on a Long Island cape with the roof being tarped after a storm

After a storm a Babylon property is covered in three kinds of debris and they go three different places: the tree, which the town may eventually take from the curb; the pieces of the house, which nobody takes; and the wet material from inside, which has a clock on it. Alec's Construction cuts, hauls and clears all three as part of the repair rather than leaving you to find a dumpster in the week every dumpster on Long Island is spoken for, working out of the yard on Barton Avenue in East Patchogue.

What a Storm Does in Babylon

Babylon is a Great South Bay village with canals and a long bay shoreline, and the streets south of Montauk Highway — the canal grids off Argyle Lake's outlet, the blocks along the bay toward Fire Island Avenue — take the surge into ranches and capes that were built at grade on the water. The Village of Babylon and the Town of Babylon hamlets around it are two different filing routes for the same storm. North of Montauk Highway the village core is older frame housing under large trees, and the damage there is limbs on roofs and porches, wind-lifted shingles on the older, steeper roofs, and rain driven in around original windows. The waterfront houses that were elevated after 2012 now take the storm as wind on a tall exposed face.

Debris on the Canal Grids

The canal streets fill with what the water floated — boats off lifts, dock boards, propane tanks, sheds — and it settles across the grid when the water goes down. Under it is the wind damage: siding panels, fence sections, gutters. The wet material from every crawl space and den on the block comes out the same week.

Trees and Limbs

A tree on the ground is a chainsaw job and a matter of time. A tree on a structure is a different job with an order to it, and it comes off before anything else on the property is touched. We cut and haul what the town will not take, and we tell you what your town is doing that week for curbside brush.

Roofing, Siding and Building Debris

Shingles, vinyl siding, aluminum gutters, fence sections, broken glass, the pieces of whatever the wind took apart. It is sharp, it has nails in it and it hides under wet leaves. Photographed where it lies before it is moved, because it is evidence of what the wind did to the house.

Wet Material From Inside

This is the debris with a clock on it: wet carpet and pad, wet insulation, sheetrock that has lost its strength, soaked furniture. Mould can begin on any of it within a day or two. It comes out, it is photographed as it comes out, and it is kept where the adjuster can see it.

Emergency tarp over a damaged roof section on a Long Island house

Hazards We Work Around

Downed lines and anything touching them — the utility first, always. Gas. Trees under tension. Nails and glass under mud. Wet floors over electrical. Cleanup is what gets the crew to the house; the scope and the rebuild are the job that follows.

Building Department in Babylon

The Village of Babylon runs its own building department separately from the Town of Babylon, so which one applies depends on the address. Emergency work to make the house safe and dry does not wait for a permit; the permanent repair is filed once the scope is agreed.

Free walkthrough in Babylon. Call or text (631) 312-7441. Tell us whether the roof is open, whether a tree is on the structure and whether there is water inside, and we bring the right equipment on the first trip.

Frequently Asked Questions

My Babylon house is on a canal. What is the first thing to do after the water goes down?

Photograph everything before anyone touches it — the water line on the walls, the crawl space, the mechanicals, the yard — because the flood adjuster is going to want to see the house as the water left it. Then get the wet material out and the drying started, because a canal house that sits wet for a week is a mould job on top of a flood job. Call the flood carrier and the homeowners carrier separately; the two claims are for different damage.

Will the town pick up storm debris?

After a major storm most Suffolk towns and villages run curbside brush and storm-debris collection for a period, with rules about how it is cut, bundled and placed. They take what is at the curb; they do not take a tree off a roof or building material out of the house. We tell you what your town is doing that week and take what they will not.

Do you haul the debris or do I need a dumpster?

We bring the hauling as part of the job. After a storm every dumpster on Long Island is committed for weeks, and leaving homeowners to find a container is how cleanup stalls.

Can I throw out the wet carpet and drywall before the adjuster comes?

Yes, and you should. Leaving it in place grows mould and makes the claim worse, and emergency mitigation is expected under the policy. Photograph it in place first, photograph it as it comes out, and keep it where the adjuster can see it if there is room.

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