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Commercial Fire Damage Restoration
What to Do After You Experience Commercial Fire Damage After experiencing a commercial fire, you will likely feel overwhelmed and not know what steps to take, or in what order. Fires can cause catastrophic damage and be very traumatizing, and it is understandable to...
Water Damage Categories
What are the Categories of Water Damage? If you’re familiar with the disastrous impacts of water damage, you know that any water damage can be catastrophic, given the right combination of time, temperature, environment, and the lack of treatment. But did you know that...
Home Biohazard Cleanup
The Importance of Cleaning up Biohazards in Your Home Everyone has cleaned up a biohazard at some point. If you have ever had a bloody nose that dripped on the bathroom floor or your pet vomited on the rug, you have technically had experience with the cleanup of...
Homeowner’s Insurance: Fire Damage Coverage
What To Know About Fire Insurance Coverage In the US, there are over one million fires reported yearly. The National Fire Protection Association's 2017 report estimates a home fire occurs every 88 seconds. Without insurance, homeowners would be left on their own to...
Actions to Take After a Hail Storm
What to Do if Your Home Experiences Hail Damage As Colorado residents, we are no strangers to hailstorms. In fact, Colorado has experienced more than $3 billion in insured damages over the last 10 years, and saw more reports of 3-inch hail in 2018 than it had in 20...
Summer BBQ Fire Damage Repair
Repairing Home Damage after a Summer BBQ Fire With summer in full swing in Denver, many homeowners find themselves outside grilling, sometimes multiple times per week. While this is a great summertime activity and a nice way to get your family outside, grilling can...
Dealing with Hail Damage to your Home
How to Handle Hail Damage to Your Home If you live in an area where hailstorms are common, you are no stranger to the damage they can cause. From dented vehicles to shredded foliage, the aftermath of a hailstorm is often readily apparent. You might rush out to move...
Storm Damage Recovery
How to Recover from Storm Damage this Summer As storms roll in this summer, you may find yourself confronted with damage to your home. Torrential rain, wind, and hail can all wreak havoc on your roof, siding, and windows, and compromise the integrity of your home. If...
Apartment Water Damage Responsibility
Apartment Water Damage - Who is Responsible? Living in an apartment can be a major blessing when property maintenance is needed. You don't have to set aside money in case the water heater goes out or the roof needs repairs. But that doesn't mean you can put aside...
Sewage Backup Guide
What to Do After Your Sewage Backs Up A backed-up sewer is something every homeowner dreads. Beyond the disgusting odor and mess, raw sewage overflow is incredibly hazardous to your health, and proper cleanup is necessary in order to ensure contaminants don’t remain...
Impact of Residential Water Damage
Effects That Water Damage Can Have on Your Home A flooded basement, a leaky roof, a burst pipe, and a backed up sewage system all have one major thing in common – they cause water damage. Whatever the cause of water damage to your home, it is something that needs to...
After the Flood
What to Do After Your House Floods Whether your house has flooded as a result of a burst pipe, heavy rains, river overflow, or a home appliance malfunction, time is of the essence when it comes to getting the water out of your home and minimizing the damage. You will...
Smoke Odor Removal
Removing Smoke Odor After a Fire You’ve finally gotten your home back together after a house fire, but something is lingering -- the odor of smoke. Whether you suffered a major fire or a small kitchen fire, smoke particles spread throughout your home and get absorbed...
Extinguishing an Electrical Fire
How to Put Out an Electrical Fire When a fire breaks out in your home, the natural first reaction is often to panic. You may freeze in your tracks, find yourself completely blanking on what you should do, or worse, spring into action and make a snap decision without...
Ceiling Water Damage Fixes
How to fix water damage to your ceiling Water damage to the ceiling is a problem you don’t want to put off or ignore. Whether the water is coming from an outdoor or indoor source, letting that water continue to pool could lead to mold growth and structural...
Water damage in your crawl space?
What to Do With Crawl Space Water Damage The crawl space is an easy area to keep out of sight and out of mind, but a damp or flooded crawl space can cause a variety of problems for homeowners and should not be ignored. Crawl space water damage can lead to structural...
Disaster Aftermath: Boarding & Securing
After Disaster Board Up Services Whether your home has been damaged by a fire or natural disaster, it is your responsibility to make sure it is secure. It is an easy step to overlook, as you focus on keeping your family safe and recouping your losses, but it is an...
Dealing with Black Mold
Black Mold Identification and Solutions The term “black mold” strikes fear into any property owner. We’ve all heard that black mold is the worst of the worst, though many of us are unaware of exactly why. Here, we cover what exactly black mold is, how to identify it,...
Damaged Belongings: Repair or Replace?
When to Restore vs. Replace Belongings After a fire or flood, you will have to make a lot of decisions about your property and possessions very quickly. Time is of the essence, as damage from both water and smoke/ash gets worse very quickly, so you will need to be...
Drying Drywall Steps
The Steps of Drying Water Damage to Drywall If you’ve experienced water damage to your home, it likely spreads further than the eye can see. You know that you need to dry out your possessions and carpet, but have you thought past these more obvious concerns, to where...
After a House Fire
What to Do After a House Fire A house fire is one of the most stressful experiences in a person’s life, and it can be very difficult to know what to do in the direct aftermath. That said, it is important to do certain things early on, not do others at all, and check...
Furniture Cleaning & Restoration Process
What happens to my Furniture during Restoration? If you’ve recently experienced a fire or flood, you likely ended up with some furniture that you wanted to keep, but that had water, fire, or smoke damage, and needed to be restored by a professional restoration...
Factors in roof age
How Long Do Roofs Last? The roof of your home is easy to forget about. So long as it’s doing its job, it’s easy to take it for granted. It’s best to keep track of your roof’s age and condition, though, so that you can stay on top of repairs, and be ready when it’s...
Can I save my carpeting after a flood?
What to do with your carpet after a flood If you’ve recently experienced flooding in your home, you may be wondering what can and cannot be salvaged. The danger, when it comes to water, is mold. Mold can be very bad news, and can cause everything from mild allergy...
How to Identify Ceiling Water Damage
What is Ceiling Water Damage? Picture it... a major storm passes through and the rain comes down hard. Suddenly water is dripping from the ceiling. You scramble to find a pan or a pail or a bucket to collect the water as it drips from the ceiling. Or perhaps you...
How to know if you have mold in your home
Do You Have Mold in Your Home? Mold is everywhere. If you live in a humid climate or have been hit by a storm that left standing water, you’re likely to have more mold in your home than average, but even the cleanest of homes in arid climates are likely to have some...
Hail Damage Identification Tips
How to Spot Hail Damage After a big hailstorm, the first places we think to look for damage are our vehicles and yards. Unless you’ve experienced major damage, leading to a leaky roof, you might not have even considered that the storm has led to structural damage to...
How to keep emergency repairs from destroying your finances
Keep Emergency Home Repairs from Wrecking Your Finances Ever notice how issues with your home seem to spring up at the worst moments, such as busted pipe before out-of-town guests arrive or an A/C outage right in the middle of the hottest week of the year? These...
Freedom to Choose
Colorado Insurance Freedom of Choice After a disaster occurs, you have a million things on your mind. You need to repair the damage, and fast. You’re busy talking to the insurance company and trying to get your home back to normal. The last thing you need is to end up...
Smoke Detector Safety Tips
When You Should Change Batteries in Your Smoke Detector The smoke detector is one of the most important tools we own. It keeps our families, pets, and home safe. We notice it when it’s chirping because of a low battery, or when it goes off because we went a little...