Serving Broomfield
Vacant & Second-Home Water Damage Broomfield, CO
A leak in an occupied house is found in hours. In an empty one it runs until the next visit, and that time is the size of the loss. A loss in an empty building is treated as having run for the whole time since the last visit until the building shows otherwise. The time between visits, not the size of the failure, is usually what decides how far water reached.
Say when the building was last checked
Often needed alongside
- Frozen & Burst Pipe Damage
Pipes split while frozen and leak when they thaw. The water arrives on the warm day, often days after the cold that caused it.
- Emergency Water Extraction
Standing water removed before it travels further into the building - the first step after any failure, and the one that shows how far the water went.
- Structural Drying
Water that ran unnoticed reaches further than it shows. Drying brings walls, floors and framing back, measured point by point.
Frequently asked questions
How can an empty Broomfield apartment flood the units around it?
A supply line or water heater that fails in a unit nobody is using keeps running until someone shuts it off, and the water moves down through floors and along shared walls. Neighbors below usually notice first. Building staff who know which units are vacant, and check them in cold weather, find these failures sooner.
Why are garages a problem for plumbing in newer Broomfield houses?
Because many newer houses put the water heater, the laundry hookups or a water softener in the garage, which is not heated. With the door closed it stays above freezing most nights; left open through a January evening, it does not. A closed door and an insulated garage do more to protect those lines than anything inside the house.
When are Broomfield homes most likely to have a pipe freeze?
In January, when the coldest normal nights fall, and especially in homes left heated low after the holidays. Owners who travel in winter should keep the heat at a moderate setting rather than turning it down as far as it goes, and ask someone to look inside the house every few days while it is empty.
Where these answers come from: the Broomfield page.