Near Crested Butte
Water Damage Restoration in Gunnison, CO
Water Damage Restoration routes calls from Gunnison to independent water damage contractors - about 22 miles from Crested Butte.
- Independent local contractors across Colorado
- Frozen pipes, empty buildings, wells, septic and snowmelt handled as the local problems they are
- One free call; nothing to fill in, nothing to book
- The contractor who visits is the one who does the work
Services available in Gunnison
Each service below is reached through the same call from Gunnison.
- Emergency
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.
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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.
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Vacant & Second-Home Water Damage
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.
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Snowmelt & Runoff Flooding
A winter of snow melts in a few weeks. Frozen or saturated ground sends it toward the lowest point, which is often a basement.
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Ice Dam & Roof Leak Damage
Snow melts over the warm roof and refreezes at the eave. The ridge of ice holds water back until it finds its way inside.
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Sewage & Septic Backup Cleanup
A septic system that cannot drain - frozen lines, thawing ground - sends water back to the lowest drain in the building. It is sewage whatever it looks like.
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Structural Drying
Water that ran unnoticed reaches further than it shows. Drying brings walls, floors and framing back, measured point by point.
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What fails in Crested Butte
Serving Crested Butte and the surrounding area.
Local housing stock
With a median build year of 1981 and close to three fifths of its homes (58.8 percent) older than 1990, most of the plumbing in Crested Butte was laid out in the early 1980s, by that era's idea of where a pipe was safe from the cold. About a third of the town's homes are held for seasonal use, and a house nobody is heating evenly can build ice along its eaves that sends melt water back under the roof.
Climate & seasonal risk
Nights in Crested Butte normally fall below freezing 9 months of the year, deepest in January at -6.5 degrees, the stretch when a line in unheated space can freeze with nobody there to notice; January is the wettest month at 2.72 of 23.76 inches a year, both figures recorded at CRESTED BUTTE, 0.4 miles away. Even September's normal low is 31.2 degrees, and January's normal high only 25.8, so a building here spends most of the year where a line can freeze and all winter where it cannot thaw.
What leaves buildings exposed here
- Heavy winter snow on roofs, where uneven heat in a lightly used house builds ice dams at the eaves
- Seasonal homes, about a third of the town, left for weeks while snow accumulates above them
- Duplexes and small multi-unit buildings, about one home in six, where water from an empty unit reaches the next