Frozen Pipes? Here's what you should do... What could be worse than a huge home maintenance problem? How about several big maintenance disasters all at once? This is exactly what can happen when your home’s water pipes freeze. As water freezes, it expands, solidifies...
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These Water Damage Facts Will Give You Nightmares
These Water Damage Facts Will Give You Nightmares So, your house flooded. Perhaps it was due to a burst pipe, or maybe the flood happened due to melting snow, an ice dam, a rain storm, or some other type of weather-related incident. Regardless of why the flooding...
Winterization Checklist: Avoid Costly Water Damage
Winterization Checklist: Avoid Costly Water Damage The Denver Metro Area continues to enjoy above average temperatures for October and November. These unseasonably warm temperatures can lead some homeowners to procrastinate their fall winterization. Unfortunately, La...
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...