An open structure invites weather, theft and liability — we secure it in hours, 24/7
When a storm, fire, or break-in leaves your Mount Pleasant property with broken windows, a compromised door, or an open roof section, the clock starts ticking immediately — and the consequences compound fast. Within the first few hours, wind-driven rain enters through every opening, soaking insulation, drywall, hardwood floors, and personal belongings. What begins as a single broken window can turn into a full interior water loss requiring tens of thousands of dollars in remediation and replacement.
As darkness falls on a visibly damaged property, the risk of theft and vandalism spikes dramatically. Exposed interiors signal opportunity to opportunistic criminals. Copper wiring, appliances, electronics, and anything of value becomes vulnerable the moment your property is left unsecured. In established Mount Pleasant neighborhoods, a single night of exposure can result in losses that dwarf the original storm damage.
Beyond the physical damage, most homeowners and commercial insurance policies include a "duty to mitigate" clause — meaning you are contractually required to take reasonable steps to prevent additional losses after a covered event. An unsecured, visibly damaged structure can give your insurer grounds to deny the portion of a claim attributable to subsequent losses that could have been prevented with prompt board-up. Failing to act isn't just costly — it can jeopardize your entire claim.
There are also serious liability concerns. An open, damaged structure is classified as an attractive nuisance under Wisconsin law. If a person — including a trespasser — is injured on your property due to the hazardous open condition, you may bear legal responsibility. Finally, animals and pests can enter within hours, squatters within days. The longer the property sits open, the more exponentially repair costs grow.
Don't wait. Call Allied Emergency Services now at (800) 792-0212 — our Mount Pleasant crews are dispatched 24/7 and target arrival within one hour of your call.
Mount Pleasant is one of Racine County's fastest-growing communities, a village in southeastern Wisconsin that has transformed significantly over the past decade. Situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline corridor between Racine to the north and Kenosha to the south, Mount Pleasant encompasses a diverse mix of residential neighborhoods, commercial corridors, and industrial zones. The community includes areas like Caledonia-adjacent subdivisions to the northwest, the neighborhoods surrounding Prairie View High School, and the extensive new development along the I-94 and Highway 20 interchange where the Foxconn/Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park project has driven rapid residential and commercial expansion.
Geographically, Mount Pleasant sits in a position that makes it particularly susceptible to severe weather events. The community lies in the Lake Michigan snow belt, where lake-effect storms can rapidly dump significant snowfall with high winds — creating conditions that compromise roofs and structural elements with little warning. In spring and summer, the area is exposed to the same severe thunderstorm tracks that move northeast from the Illinois border, carrying damaging hail, tornado-spawning supercells, and straight-line winds capable of lifting roofing materials, snapping mature trees, and breaking windows across entire neighborhoods in minutes.
The village includes significant commercial real estate along Washington Avenue (Highway 20), Green Bay Road, and the new development corridors near Sylvania Avenue. These commercial properties — including retail centers, restaurants, light industrial facilities, and mixed-use developments — face unique board-up challenges that require larger materials, commercial-grade securing methods, and after-hours coordination with property managers and business owners. Allied Emergency Services has the equipment, crew size, and experience to handle everything from a single-family ranch home off Chicory Road to a multi-bay commercial structure near the I-94 interchange.
The area also has a mix of older housing stock in established neighborhoods and brand-new construction in recently platted subdivisions. Older homes may have aging windows more susceptible to hail breakage and roofing materials at the end of their service life that are more likely to be lifted by wind events. New construction in the Foxconn development zone and surrounding residential plats adds thousands of households to the community's property roster — all of which require the same responsive emergency services when severe weather strikes.
We are not a storm-chaser outfit that appears after a disaster and disappears. Allied Emergency Services is a credentialed, licensed, and insured restoration contractor with deep roots in the greater Midwest restoration industry.
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Every board-up situation is unique. Our crews arrive with the materials, equipment, and expertise to handle any type of opening — residential or commercial — at any hour.
Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and extreme winter weather can shatter windows, tear off roofing sections, collapse soffits, and leave entire walls exposed in minutes. Our storm board-up service is engineered to rapidly stabilize your property and stop the damage cycle immediately. We use commercial-grade plywood and professional fastening techniques that protect openings without causing secondary damage to surrounding frames, trim, or siding.
After a fire, your property is simultaneously vulnerable to weather exposure, theft, vandalism, and structural collapse — often within hours of the fire being extinguished. Smoke and heat-damaged windows frequently fail on their own, doors are left compromised by firefighting entry, and roof structures weakened by fire become dangerous open hazards. Allied's fire board-up teams work alongside fire department incident commanders and property owners to secure the structure as soon as it is released and safe to enter.
A break-in or act of vandalism leaves your property physically compromised and emotionally unsettling. Broken entry doors, smashed windows, and forced locks need to be addressed immediately — not just for security but because your property is now exposed to weather, additional theft, and potential liability. Allied Emergency Services responds same-day to secure your property, working in coordination with police report documentation to support your insurance claim. We understand the urgency of restoring your sense of security as quickly as possible.
Commercial properties in Mount Pleasant face distinct challenges when storm or security damage occurs. Large plate glass storefronts, multi-panel display windows, loading dock doors, and expansive commercial roofing require specialized materials and crew resources beyond what a standard residential board-up entails. Our commercial teams arrive with heavy-gauge plywood, industrial fasteners, and the manpower to handle large-scale openings quickly and efficiently. We understand that every hour your business is exposed is an hour of liability and potential loss.
Understanding the storm climate of southeastern Wisconsin is essential context for any property owner. Mount Pleasant and Racine County face a diverse and serious range of weather threats throughout the year — threats that have a direct history of causing the exact kind of structural damage that requires emergency board-up.
The weeks between April and June represent the highest-risk window for severe thunderstorm activity across Racine County. During this period, warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico collides with cold Canadian air masses over the Great Lakes region, producing supercell thunderstorms capable of generating golf ball and baseball-sized hail, tornado touchdowns, and straight-line wind gusts exceeding 80 mph. The Kenosha-Racine corridor, which includes Mount Pleasant directly, has experienced multiple tornado warnings and verified touchdowns over the past decade. Hail events during spring months are the leading cause of broken windows and damaged roofing in residential and commercial properties throughout the village.
The summer months bring the threat of derechos — fast-moving bands of severe thunderstorms with associated damaging straight-line winds. These events move rapidly across Wisconsin from west to east, often striking the I-94 corridor through Mount Pleasant with sustained wind gusts of 60–80 mph and peak gusts exceeding 100 mph in the strongest events. Derechos are particularly damaging because they cover wide geographic areas simultaneously, overwhelming emergency response capacity. Properties in subdivisions with mature tree canopies — including areas around Northwestern Avenue and smaller residential streets near Hoods Creek — are especially vulnerable to tree fall and wind-driven debris impacts.
As the Great Lakes begin to cool in fall, powerful extratropical storm systems can generate sustained wind events affecting the entire western Lake Michigan shoreline. Mount Pleasant's proximity to Lake Michigan means these systems can intensify as they approach the coast. Properties near Green Bay Road and the lake-adjacent neighborhoods experience the strongest gusts during these events, with winds capable of lifting shingles, breaking weak or old windows, and causing structural damage to attached garages and outbuildings. Fall windstorms are often underestimated by homeowners who assume severe weather season has passed.
Mount Pleasant lies squarely within Wisconsin's Lake Michigan snow belt. When cold air masses move from northwest to southeast across the open water of Lake Michigan, they pick up enormous moisture and deposit it as heavy lake-effect snow along the Racine-Kenosha shoreline. These events can drop two to three feet of snow in 24–36 hours. Combined with strong winds, this creates extreme snow loading conditions on roofs — particularly flat commercial roofs and older residential structures — that can lead to partial or catastrophic roof collapse. Ice dam formation is also common, causing water infiltration through rooflines and fascias that may not become apparent until significant damage has already occurred.
This climate reality makes professional emergency board-up not a luxury but a necessity for Mount Pleasant property owners. When the next storm strikes — and in this region, it is always when, not if — Allied Emergency Services is one call away. (800) 792-0212
After storm damage, the instinct to grab a sheet of plywood from the garage and nail it over a broken window is understandable. It feels productive. It feels like control. But DIY board-up almost always falls short of the protection a property truly needs — and in some cases, it creates new problems that compound the original damage.
The first issue is materials. Consumer-grade plywood from a home center is not the same material used by professional restoration crews. We use moisture-resistant, appropriately-dimensioned structural panels fastened with professional-grade hardware designed to stay in place through subsequent wind and rain events. Improperly secured DIY boards have been known to fail within hours of installation, re-exposing the opening during the same storm system that caused the original damage.
The second issue is technique. Professional board-up crews are trained to cover openings in a way that does not cause additional damage to window frames, door casings, brick mortar, or siding. Driving nails or screws into trim, brick, or EIFS stucco creates secondary damage that expands the scope of your insurance claim and your repair bill. We use techniques and fastening methods appropriate to each surface type that protect the surrounding structure and make eventual restoration cleaner and less expensive.
Roof tarping is an area where DIY attempts are particularly dangerous. A damaged roof is by definition an unstable surface. Working on a wet, wind-damaged roofline without proper safety equipment, fall protection, and roofing experience is one of the most dangerous DIY scenarios imaginable. Our crews arrive with the equipment, training (OSHA 10/30 certified), and experience to tarp a compromised roof quickly and safely — without adding an injury to your list of problems.
Documentation is the third major advantage of professional board-up. Every crew we dispatch photographs the property before, during, and after the board-up process. We create an itemized record of all materials used, all openings covered, and all work performed. This documentation is provided to you in a format your insurance company expects and accepts. DIY board-up produces no such documentation and may actually complicate your claim by blurring the line between the original storm damage and subsequent conditions.
Finally, commercial storefronts and multi-unit properties in Mount Pleasant must comply with local municipal code requirements for secured structures. Non-compliant board-up can result in code violation notices that add administrative burden and cost to an already stressful situation. Allied ensures all work meets current code standards.
What property owners should do before our crew arrives: Stay out of structurally unstable areas. Do not enter rooms with sagging ceilings or compromised floors. If it is safe to do so, take photographs of visible damage from a distance. Turn off electricity to affected areas if you can do so safely. Call us first — we will walk you through the rest.
Allied Emergency Services is not just a board-up company. We are a full-service restoration contractor with the capability to carry your property from the moment of the emergency all the way through to completed, permitted, inspected repairs. Here is exactly what that process looks like.
The moment you call, our dispatch team gathers the details of your situation and deploys the appropriate crew and equipment. For Mount Pleasant properties, we target arrival within one hour. Upon arrival, our crew performs a rapid but thorough visual assessment to identify all openings, hazards, and structural concerns. We then execute emergency board-up and roof tarping to fully stabilize the structure against further weather, unauthorized entry, and liability exposure. Throughout this process, we are photographing everything — before, during, and after — to build the foundational documentation record for your insurance claim.
Once the property is stabilized, we conduct a comprehensive damage assessment that goes well beyond counting broken windows. Our team documents all areas of damage — structural, roofing, exterior cladding, window and door systems, interior water intrusion zones, and any secondary damage caused by the initial event. We produce a written damage report with photographs, measurements, and material specifications that provides your insurance adjuster with the complete picture they need to assess the claim accurately and fairly. This documentation step is critical and is one of the most significant ways Allied adds value compared to companies that simply board-up and leave.
Allied Emergency Services works alongside your insurance company's adjuster throughout the claims process. We make ourselves available for adjuster site visits, provide supplemental documentation when requested, and ensure the scope of covered work is accurately captured. We are restoration contractors — we repair damage, and insurance pays for those repairs. We do not adjust, negotiate, or settle your claim on your behalf. What we do is make sure the documentation is thorough, accurate, and presented in a format that supports a clean, complete claims process. We also help you understand the repair scope so you can have informed conversations with your adjuster and make confident decisions about your restoration.
Once your insurance claim is approved and a scope of work is established, Allied transitions seamlessly into the full restoration phase. This may include complete roof replacement using high-quality shingles suited to Wisconsin's climate demands, window replacement, door system replacement, siding repair or replacement, structural repairs, gutters and accessories, and interior remediation if water penetration occurred during the exposure period. All of our restoration work is performed by licensed, insured tradespeople and pulled with proper permits where required. We coordinate inspections and deliver work that meets or exceeds local building codes — protecting you, your property, and your investment long-term.
We do not consider a job complete until you do. Before we close out any restoration project in Mount Pleasant, we conduct a thorough final walkthrough with you to review every element of the completed work. We check that all materials match the agreed specifications, that workmanship meets our quality standards, and that you are completely satisfied with the result. We document the completed condition with final photographs and provide you with copies of all permits, material specifications, and warranty information. Our goal is not just to restore your property to pre-loss condition — it is to leave you with a property that is better protected and better documented than it was before the storm.
⚖️ Important Notice: Allied Emergency Services is a licensed restoration contractor, not an insurance adjuster or public adjuster. We document damage and perform restoration repairs. We do not adjust, negotiate, or settle insurance claims on your behalf. All insurance claim decisions are made by your insurance company and its adjusters. We work with your insurance to support your claim with thorough documentation and quality repair work.
Hear from homeowners and business owners who called Allied when it mattered most.
A severe storm came through our neighborhood off Northwestern Avenue at about 11 PM on a Tuesday night and punched three windows out of our house. I honestly didn't know who to call. Allied answered immediately, had a crew at my door in under an hour, and had everything boarded up before the rain band hit again two hours later. The guys were professional, fast, and genuinely seemed to care about getting it done right. The documentation package they left me was exactly what my insurance adjuster asked for. Cannot recommend them enough.
We own a small retail space on Washington Avenue and had a break-in over a holiday weekend that shattered our front display window. I was panicking because we had merchandise exposed and the forecast was for rain that afternoon. Allied showed up within 45 minutes of my call, boarded the entire front facade professionally, and even swept up the broken glass from the sidewalk before they left. They gave me a full write-up tied to my police report number that my commercial insurance company accepted without any back-and-forth. Absolute lifesavers for our business.
A tree came down on our garage and took out part of the wall and the roof over our attached unit during last spring's wind event. We were terrified about rain getting into the house. Allied got there fast, tarped the roof opening, and boarded the wall breach — all before it started raining again. What really impressed me was that they also spotted some soffit damage we hadn't noticed, documented it, and included it in the report. That additional damage was covered in our claim. They went above and beyond and stayed with us all the way through the full roof and garage repair. Five stars without hesitation.
Reviews represent typical customer experiences. Individual results may vary.
When your property is compromised, the last thing you need is a complicated process. We make it as simple as possible to get help fast.
Call (800) 792-0212 any time — day or night, weekday or holiday. A live dispatcher answers, gathers your address and damage description, and immediately begins routing the closest available crew to your Mount Pleasant property. You will receive a realistic arrival estimate before we hang up.
Our dispatcher alerts the crew and confirms materials are loaded for your specific type of damage. We do not run out to buy plywood on the way to your house — we arrive prepared. Crew vehicles are stocked with commercial-grade board-up materials, roof tarping systems, fasteners, tools, and safety equipment ready for immediate deployment.
Upon arrival, our crew lead conducts a rapid but systematic assessment of all damaged areas. We identify every opening, every structural concern, and every area of water or weather exposure. We photograph everything before touching it — preserving the original damage condition for your insurance documentation. We then brief you on exactly what work we plan to do and answer any questions before we begin.
Our crew executes the board-up and tarping work efficiently and professionally. We work quickly because your property is exposed — but we never cut corners on material quality or fastening technique. Every opening is covered to create a weather-tight, secure barrier. Roof tarps are installed with proper overlaps, weights, and tie-downs designed to withstand subsequent wind events. We clean up debris from the work area before we leave.
Before leaving, we provide you with a complete documentation package: before-and-after photographs of all work performed, an itemized list of all materials used with quantities and dimensions, a written description of all openings covered and work completed, and our contact information for insurance adjuster follow-up. This package is exactly what your insurance company needs to process your claim efficiently.
Our team responds within 1 hour — don't let damage get worse.
Allied Emergency Services covers Mount Pleasant and the entire Racine County area, as well as surrounding communities across southeastern Wisconsin. Whether your property is in the newer developments near the I-94/Highway 20 interchange, the established neighborhoods along Northwestern Avenue and Green Bay Road, or the commercial corridors along Washington Avenue, we can reach you quickly.
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