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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...
Abbotts Fire Safety Tips: Water Sparks Grease Fire Explosion (VIDEO)
Abbotts Fire Safety Tips: Water Sparks Grease Fire Explosion Even a little water added to a grease fire can result in explosive consequences. A grease fire in the home kitchen is one mistake away from an explosion. Even a small amount of water dropped into a pan or...
Check Out These Upcoming Abbotts Sponsored Events
Abbotts is proud to sponsor industry events that bring disaster cleanup and restoration professionals together and promote shared knowledge to benefit the whole community. We recently sponsored the Apartment Association of Metro Denver 2015 Maintenance Olympics, a...
In Photos: Anatomy of a Fire Damage Restoration Project
In Photos: Anatomy of a Fire Damage Restoration Project Abbotts is ready to jump into action to quickly safeguard and restore your property when disaster strikes. A recent Denver house fire left a family’s home with catastrophic damage. While fast-responding Denver...
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...
Denver Housing Authority Certifies Abbotts for Meth Lab Cleanup
Denver Housing Authority Certifies Abbotts for Meth Lab Cleanup The Denver Housing Authority on January 31, 2015 authorized 10 Abbotts Fire and Flood technicians to supervise meth lab decontamination on properties the Authority manages. These days, unfortunately, any...
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...
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...
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...
Meth Lab Cleanup Poses Unique Challenges for Housing Authorities, Landlords
Meth Lab Cleanup Poses Unique Challenges for Housing Authorities, Landlords Housing authorities and landlords can recover meth lab cleanup costs through government programs. A Big, Hazardous, Expensive Headache Unfortunately, we see it in the headlines too often:...
Freeze Break Water Damage
Freeze Break Water Damage This homeowner experienced flooding throughout their three-level home due to a freeze-break in the pipes between their shower and an exterior wall. Damage was extensive throughout including standing water on hardwood floors, soggy carpeting,...
Why Use Abbotts for Mold Testing?
Why Use Abbotts for Mold Testing? With health at stake, you want a professional. Mold is potentially hazardous to your family or your employees and customers. You can’t afford to ignore signs of mold like musty smells or discolored walls, or circumstances like a...
Forecasters Predict Harsh Winter: Is Your Home and Business Ready?
Forecasters Predict Deep Freeze for Denver in Early 2025: Is Your Home and Business Ready? As Denver braces for an intense winter in early 2025, forecasters are predicting deep freeze temperatures combined with above-average snowfall. These harsh conditions can wreak...
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...
The Costs of Disaster Cleanup and Restoration
The Costs of Disaster Cleanup and Restoration Straight Answers to Questions About Property Damage Restoration Abbotts is a locally-owned business. Collectively, we have more than 70 years of experience in helping people recover their homes and businesses in the...
Abbotts Water Damage Emergency Action Guide
Abbotts Water Damage Emergency Action Guide The water is rising. What do you do? When flooding strikes, you have to act fast to minimize water damage. While Abbotts Fire and Flood will clean up and repair your flooded or water-damaged property like new, there are some...
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...
Asbestos News Casts Sobering Shadow
Asbestos News Casts Sobering Shadow Asbestos exposure will make you sick. Prolonged exposure will kill you. It’s no joke. Consider the rapid and permanent evacuation of Denver’s Overlook apartments. When asbestos was discovered to have been used in the apartments’...
Corporate vs. Family Owned: Which Best Serves Your Family? Pt. 1
Corporate vs. Family Owned: Which Best Serves Your Family? Pt. 1 A lot of companies list “family owned” as a feature. But why should that matter to you? It’s no secret that Coloradans support local businesses. This commitment to community has made the state a vibrant...
All Hands on Deck in Support of Firefighters
All Hands on Deck in Support of Firefighters Wildfire season is in full swing, and wildland firefighters are battling small blazes up and down the Front Range already. Fortunately, they’ve managed to quickly contain the fires to relatively small areas, so far. And we...
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...
Abbotts Fire and Flood Key Strategy: Be a Friend to Customers First
Abbotts Fire and Flood Key Strategy: Be a Friend to Customers First Abbotts Fire and Flood Restoration, the disaster restoration specialist, wants clients to think of them as a friend first and a business second. Founders Jack Martin and Travis Chancey offer tips on...
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...
Sewage Cleanup Dos and Don’ts
Sewage Cleanup Dos and Don'ts This video reviews a residential Category 3 sewage loss and explains some sewage cleanup dos and don'ts. Category 3 water damage is water that is highly contaminated and could cause death or serious illness if consumed by humans. This...