Water Damage Tip #8 – Ventilate Get Started on This Step Right Away This tip is crucial to minimizing your water damage and helping to recover quickly. Ventilation enables water to evaporate faster, which helps reduce the damage and prevent other issues, like mold...
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Water Damage Tip #5: Document Damage
Water Damage Tip: Document Damage This Step Is Critical Documenting your damage is of particular importance when you have flooding from weather or plumbing leaks, so important that we’ve broken this critical property protection step out of our blog post Water Damage?...
Water Damage? Follow These 10 Tips
Water Damage? Follow These 10 Tips Water damage from flooding or plumbing issues like frozen, ruptured pipes can present harrowing challenges. It’s hard to know what to do first when the water recedes. Act fast and follow these tips after the water recedes to...
Why Remove Old Insulation?
Why Remove Old Insulation? There are any number of reasons you might want or need to remove old insulation from your attic or other spaces in your home or business. Whatever the reason, Abbotts has state-of-the-art equipment and expertise to remove hazardous old...
Winterization Starts Now
Winterization starts now! Frozen pipes not yet ruptured? You may not be so lucky next time. Let’s look forward to August: The sun was hot today, but there was shade along the trail, and you laughed with friends a million miles away from the cold of winter. Still, you...
Forecasters Predict Harsh Winter: Is Your Home and Business Ready?
Forecasters Predict Harsh Winter: Is Your Home and Business Ready? Forecasters are predicting a harsh 2014 winter with above-average snowfall and below-average temperatures. We’re experts at cleaning and restoring property after disasters. But we’re human, and seeing...
10 Tips for Clean Carpets
10 Tips for Clean Carpets Carpet fibers are virtually magnetic, grabbing dust and contaminants literally from thin air, on top of whatever people drag in. When they become saturated, simply walking on them throws all sorts of nasty contaminants back into the air for...
Avoid Winter Water Damage From Frozen Pipes With These Tips
Avoid Winter Water Damage From Frozen Pipes With These Tips Summer is giving way to early autumn, but we’re a long way from the snow and ice of January. Still, the average November low temperature in November is 25 degrees fahrenheit. Take advantage of the remaining...
Stay High and Dry With These Sump Pump Tips
Stay High and Dry With These Sump Pump Tips Imagine this: You wake up one June morning after a gnarly night of fierce thunderstorms. The sun is shining, and the remaining rain looks more like dew sparkling outside your kitchen window as you enjoy your coffee and think...
Clogged Dryer Vents Ignite 15,000 House Fires a Year
Clogged Dryer Vents Ignite 15,000 House Fires a Year Nice, toasty towels right out of the dryer feel great in the winter. Unfortunately, residential clothes dryers can toast more than towels. Flammable lint can work its way through your dryer’s lint filter and contact...
Is Your Property Ready for Monsoon Season?
Is Your Property Ready for Monsoon Season? In Denver this week we're looking at at least the next 5 days filled with severe thunderstorms and showers. This could just be the beginning. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a 65 percent chance...
Cleaning up Water Damage in Your Home? Follow These Tips
Cleaning up Water Damage in Your Home? Follow These Tips Now that the water has receded, it's time to act to prevent the damage from getting worse and restore your property. Do you know what to do first? Where to start? Depending upon the scope of the water damage as...