Prepare Your Sprinklers For The Cold Season As the warmer fall days are quickly coming to a close, it is time for a reminder to shut down and winterize your sprinkler system! It is important to get rid of any remaining water from the pipes, valves, and sprinkler heads...
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Thermal Imaging
Thermal Imaging You don’t have to tear down a wall to see what’s happening behind it! Thermal Imaging is a unique and powerful tool that is very useful in flood and fire restoration efforts. Thermal imaging cameras reveal a variety of small temperature differences...
1,000 Year Flooding Events and Large-Loss Restoration Projects
1,000 Year Flooding Events and Large-Loss Restoration Projects When a large flooding event occurs in your area, the clean-up effort can be daunting and emotional. Unfortunately, everyone in the affected area will likely need some kind of restoration work done on their...
Drain Cleaning
Drain Cleaning Drain cleaning is a common procedure that many restoration companies offer as a part of their services to both residential and commercial clients. It is also a procedure that needs to be done properly to ensure that pipes are not damaged or backed up...
Art Restoration
Art Restoration Damaged artwork is yet another item that restoration companies deal with when your property incurs water, fire, mold, sewer or other damage. Reputable disaster restoration companies should work alongside insurance providers and claims adjusters while...
Water Damage Tip #8 – Ventilate
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...
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...
Flooding Risks: We’re Not Out of the Woods, Yet
Flooding Risks: We're Not Out of the Woods, Yet The national media is awash with images and tragic stories about dangerous flooding in other states. 11 dead, 30 missing after record floods swamp Texas and Oklahoma As we turn our thoughts toward the people facing...
In Photos: Anatomy of a Ruptured Frozen Pipe
In Photos: Anatomy of a Ruptured Frozen Pipe During one of this winter’s particularly harsh cold spells, a pipe froze and burst in an office building at the Coca Cola bottling plant on York Street in Denver. The pipe was in the ceiling upstairs, so the water from the...
Report: State to Tighten Flood Protection Regs for Oil, Gas Storage
Report: State to Tighten Flood Protection Regs for Oil, Gas Storage State regulators are preparing to impose new rules to keep oil and gas wells more secure after spills blamed on the catastrophic Colorado flood of 2013, the Denver Post reported. The Colorado Oil and...
Proposed Colorado Law Could Speed Up Fire, Flood Warnings
Proposed Colorado Law Could Speed Up Fire, Flood Warnings Faster warnings could save hundreds of millions in damage and save lives. The Denver Post reports Colorado state Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp, D-Arvada, is drumming up support for a $10 million effort to better...