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March 19, 2025 16 mins

Roger Blalock shares insights from his 19-year career in property restoration, explaining how water damage often causes costly secondary issues like hidden mold growth. His Mocksville-based company serves the Triad area with comprehensive restoration services from initial damage assessment through complete rebuilds.

• Family background in construction before specializing in restoration services
• Explains mitigation process for water damage including moisture detection and drying
• Works closely with insurance adjusters as an advocate for homeowners
• Provides complete restoration from tear-out to rebuild with 1-5 year warranties
• Holds specialized certifications in structural drying, mold remediation, and trauma cleanup
• Describes extreme cases including foreclosed homes with rainbow-colored mold requiring complete gutting
• Actively involved in community as church youth leader and coach for multiple school sports

For restoration services including water damage, mold remediation, or trauma cleanup, reach Davie Property Restoration at 336-923-4018 or visit daviepropertyrestoration.com.

Davie Property Restoration - Roger Blalock 

Davidson County, NC · Forsyth County, NC · Guilford, NC · Davie County, NC

(336) 923-4018

info@daviepropertyrestoration.com

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(00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local
businesses and neighbors cometogether.
Here's your host, Karen Wood.

Karen Wood (00:11):
Well, hello, Roger.

Roger Blalock (00:14):
Good morning.

Karen Wood (00:17):
So how's your morning been Been?
Great, awesome, awesome.
Now this morning I have RogerBlaylock with Davey Property
Restorations.
Tell me where you're locatedthere, roger.

Roger Blalock (00:34):
We are located in Mocksville, North Carolina.

Karen Wood (00:38):
Okay, and what areas do you serve?

Roger Blalock (00:43):
I serve pretty much the whole triad.

Karen Wood (00:45):
Okay.

Roger Blalock (00:48):
I'll go anywhere, depending on the size of the
job.

Karen Wood (00:51):
Okay, so county-wise you would say from Davie County
and all the surroundingcounties.

Roger Blalock (00:59):
Yeah, so it would be Davie Davidson, iredell,
yakin, forsyth and parts ofGuilford.

Karen Wood (01:08):
Okay, okay, awesome, awesome.
So before we get into a littlebit more on that, now that our
audience knows who we're talkingto, just quickly tell me a
little bit about yourself andyour background and how you
ended up creating and startingDavey Property Restoration.

Roger Blalock (01:27):
So my family has always been in the construction
business.
My grandpa and dad had theirown framing business and then
when I graduated high school Istarted working with them in the
early 2000s.
And then the economy went badand I got my first job in
restoration working for acompany called davy I'm at a

(01:49):
disaster restoration services inwinston-salem then, and then I
got as a helper there, then gotpromoted pretty quickly and then
got to the production managerand the mitigation side, got all
my certifications, then went towork for a company called
Belfort Property Restoration andthen Servpro.

(02:12):
So I've been in the restorationfor going on 18, 19 years now.

Karen Wood (02:17):
Oh, wow, okay, I didn't realize it had been that
long.
Yep, that's awesome.
So explain to the audience whatmitigation is.

Roger Blalock (02:28):
Sometimes everybody doesn't quite
understand that so sometimesmitigation most times you have
your you go in a pipe, say apipe bust in there, and you go
in uh, mitigation is the dry outpart, tear out part part.
You go in and put demodifiers,air movers, remove what damaged

(02:50):
material, it be float to carpetor things of that sort, dry it
out, take moisture readings andthings of that sort.

Karen Wood (03:00):
Okay, Okay.
And then do you have theability?
So, for example, you go out andyou discover the damage or help
the person determine you knowwhat exactly is damage, Because
sometimes there's more than whatmeets the eye.
Right, Because once you starttearing out and looking at
things, you're like, oh wow, youknow, you uncover a lot

(03:21):
sometimes, right?

Roger Blalock (03:23):
Correct.
OK, you uncover a lot sometimes,right, correct, okay.
So I work very close withinsurance adjusters.
I'll go out there and meet themon the job site and do a
walkthrough with them, and a lotof times I'll go because it
makes the customer feel at easewhenever they have somebody kind
of on their side.
That's kind of fighting forthem, and because, being in the

(03:47):
field for as long as I have, youdon't get surprised very often
because you've done seen thegood, the bad and the ugly.
So, um, you know, and I helpsometimes determine where the
water source is coming from,when, when the homeowners can't
determine where it's coming from.
Uh, so I mean I've been inthere to where they've been five

(04:13):
feet in the basement, to littleice maker lines breaking and
doing damage in kitchens.
You know something big,something small, I've seen all.

Karen Wood (04:24):
Okay, okay, so would you say water is the number one
source of damage to homeowners'homes.

Roger Blalock (04:39):
Yes, okay.
Source of damage to homeownershomes yes, okay, because I mean,
if you, if you don't catch itquick enough, then you worry
about the secondary damages,whether you know that's where
you get your mold.
Uh, can grow in between thewalls, where you wouldn't ever.

Karen Wood (04:51):
OK, are there some things that a homeowner could
look for, you know, or if theyjust might feel something might
be off as far as like with waterdamage Maybe, like your water
bill is a little bit higher thanusual, or you know things like
that.

Roger Blalock (05:28):
Yeah, so that's the one main thing, I guess, a
lot of people is.
When they look at a water billand it's double or, you know, 20
percent higher than usual, thenI'll get.
I'll get a phone call out there, because a lot of times a pipe
will bust in a crawl space andit wouldn't.
You wouldn't ever know untilyou know one.
You get a water bill or two,like your refrigerator falls to
your floor.

Karen Wood (05:42):
Or you step in a soft spot and you're like, well,
I wasn't there before.

Roger Blalock (05:46):
Correct Gotcha.

Karen Wood (05:46):
Gotcha.
So you help uncover the sourceof the problem.
So you help uncover the sourceof the problem and then does
your company have the ability tobuild back and and fix things
like they were?

Roger Blalock (06:17):
Is that something that you do as well?
Yeah.
So my motto is, yeah, yeah, wecan do it, and typically that's
a lot of homeowners, like youknow.
You can go in there and you'reable to do it from start to
finish.
They ain't got to worry abouthiring, uh, other contractors to
come in and do things and I'llgo, I'll tell them.
You know, I have a slew ofpeople where, if I can't do it
in-house, I have subcontractorsthat I trust in customers' homes

(06:40):
that can put it back togetheras well.

Karen Wood (06:42):
Okay.
Do you offer a type of warrantywith the work that you do?

Roger Blalock (06:50):
Yeah, depending on what it is, we offer a one to
five-year warranty.
Okay, okay, awesome, yeah,depending on what it is, we
offer one to five year warranty.

Karen Wood (06:55):
OK, ok, awesome.
Something you had mentionedearlier too, when you described
your company, what you do andyour background is that you have
certain certifications.

Roger Blalock (07:12):
Tell me about some of those.
So first I got my firstcertification doing applied
structural drying.
So what that is is I can gointo our home and what we like
to call is a vortex system whereI can set air movers up with a
dehumidifier in the middle towhere it kind of is like the
perfect airflow, to where itgoes in the same directions and
it works out, to where therotation works, to where the

(07:34):
dehumidifier sucks all themoisture up that gets airborne
from the air movers.
Then I have applied microbialgrowth, which is I can remediate
mold and remove a bit um moldand remove of it.

(08:01):
I also have uh.
I'm what's called a hygienistso I can test for mold, which is
I have an air quality machinethat comes in, takes a cultural
disc and uh, it tests the air ifthere's any mold spores in the
air or uh, it'll determinethings of that sort.
And also I am certified inbloodborne pathogens so I can
remove any.

(08:22):
I do crime scene cleanup andremove any biomatter, whether it
be blood, meth labs or heroinor fentanyll, things of that
sort.

Karen Wood (08:36):
I'm certified to remove it as well really yep wow
, what is the ugliest job you'veever cleaned up?
Uh not being too graphicprobably.

Roger Blalock (08:51):
I mean it had to be a uh.
A man had died in his home in awaterbed and his body acid had
leaked and went through thelining of the waterbed and the
downstairs neighbor had noticeda nasty drippy smell coming in.
Water dripping had a nastysmell to it, coming through the

(09:14):
duct work and we had to goupstairs and clean it up, where
the coroners had to come inthere and take the man out in
individual bags because it wasso bad.

Karen Wood (09:24):
Oh, my goodness.

Roger Blalock (09:26):
I've done quite a bit of blood trauma cleanup
where it'd be murder-suicide oryou know things of that, without
being too graphic.
Some of them were pretty pretty, her, her, you know pretty
graphic.
You know brain matter, brainmatter and ceilings and walls
you have scrape out and thingsof that sort.

Karen Wood (09:48):
Oh my gosh.
So are there a lot of people Imean, this is really fascinating
Are there a lot of people thathave the certifications, like in
the triad area, to do the typeof cleanup that you do for that?

Roger Blalock (10:00):
So most, most of your restoration companies,
whether it be the firm orindividual you know, have
certifications in that yeah um,because that this is a disaster.
It's, you know, one of yourforms of disaster, uh.
And then I've been to new york.
When hurricane sandy hit up innew york and uh was working on a

(10:22):
building and I watched thecorners take out multiple bodies
out of a basement that hadgotten flooded and they had
nowhere to escape.

Karen Wood (10:32):
Oh sad.

Roger Blalock (10:34):
Yeah, I mean most , most of all circumstances.
They are all pretty sad, youknow, because there's not much.
Most times you don't deal withinsurance companies on that.
You do what you do a lot with,um, the homeowners or family
members that's got to pay out ofpocket for that gotcha so you

(10:55):
know you got to hear thebackstory about how all things
went wrong and and what and whatwent bad and kind of um, you
know you get an emotionalattachment to it, which which
it's hard not to, and you andyou're you're taught not to do
that.
But we're all human.

Karen Wood (11:15):
So you know you always feel for the individual
where things of that sort hashappened to them yes, wow, I had
no idea what's the ugliest jobyou've done as far as um, just
like a damage, as far as not onlike that, but like just to the
home from either water or thesestorms and things that we've

(11:36):
been having the past couple ofyears or anything like that it
won um in clemens one time.

Roger Blalock (11:45):
It was a foreclosed home and I guess the
water company never turned thewater off and a pipe had burst
and I had, and the mold in therewas pretty much every color of
the rainbow oh my we had somesome of them that looked like
crystals growing in walls and onjoists.
We had to remove everything inthe home except for the floor,

(12:11):
joists, the trusses, of course,the roof and the two-by-fours on
outside the house.
There was nothing left.

Karen Wood (12:20):
Just a shell, oh my gosh.

Roger Blalock (12:22):
The plywood was all rotten out out.
We had to remove bathtubs.
I mean that that probably wasthe worst mold damage I've ever
done as far as the amount,because it was a hundred percent
covered that we I mean we hadto clean all the wood materials
but, um, like two befores and,and you know things of that, you
can clean them if it's withintime.

(12:45):
What mold, what mold doesreally?
You know it eats, eats it fromthe inside, I mean outside in,
so you get surface mold.
Then it'll get so bad It'll.
It'll, you know, multiply andgrow into something more than
you know.
Typical you're, you're in yourmold cases.
Your aspergillus penicillium isyour most common.

(13:07):
That's outside.
You know, all that needs is a,is a feeding source, and a lot
of times people don't realize,like if you go sell a home and
you don't winterize your homeand you have moisture still
sitting in your toilets, that'sall it needs for mold to be
grown, because you don't have nochange of air, it's all locked
up and it and it and it has thatone source and then it just

(13:31):
multiplies.

Karen Wood (13:33):
Yeah, wow.

Roger Blalock (13:34):
People don't.
People don't realize that.

Karen Wood (13:36):
I can see that, well , this has been fascinating.
Again, I knew what you did, butagain, well, this has been
fascinating.
Again, I knew what you did, butagain, hadn't heard some of the
in-depth conversation orin-depth information that you
shared Before I let you goquickly.
I know that you do a lot herein our community.
I want the listeners to hearsome of the things that you do

(13:57):
in addition to running yourbusiness, so tell me a little
bit about that to running yourbusiness.

Roger Blalock (14:03):
So tell me a little bit about that.
Okay, so first you know I'm afollower of Christ, so I love
children.
Me and my wife are youthleaders at our church.
We support the kids.
I do a prison ministry with ourchurch.
In addition to that I have sixkids all ages and I also do a
lot for in Davie I am a coach inmiddle school.

(14:27):
I do middle school football,varsity boys basketball, jv
girls basketball, and now I justhad a new thing put on that I
also do is JV and varsity girlsvolleyball.

Karen Wood (14:43):
Outstanding.
Well, I know I appreciateeverything you do for our youth
here in Davie County, as well asthe community.
Tell our listeners how they canget in touch with you if they
need your services.

Roger Blalock (14:59):
So there's multiple ways.
You can go on my website atdaviepropertyrestoration.
com, or you can look us up onFacebook, instagram and TikTok
at Davie Property Restoration.
Or you can always feel free todo the old school way and give
us a call at 336-923-4018.

(15:21):
223-4018.

Karen Wood (15:22):
Awesome.
Well, Roger, thanks for talkingwith me for a few minutes today
, and I hope the listeners havelearned a lot about you, your
business and, of course, how toreach you, and I look forward to
the next time that we gettogether and chat.

Roger Blalock (15:37):
Thank you so much and thanks for having me.

(15:44):
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