Leaks Found Late
Water Damage Restoration Denver, CO
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How long water runs before anyone knows: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.
Where water hides in Denver
From Sandown, South Park Hill, and North Park Hill to the edge of Denver, a building left unwatched through a freeze is one call from an independent restoration contractor. At any given time roughly 10,000 Denver homes stand empty and for rent, each a set of pipes nobody is using or watching.
Age of the homes
Just 37 percent of the homes in Denver are newer than 1989, with the median dating to 1975, the era that decided where these buildings' pipes run, including any that pass through unheated space. More than half of Denver's occupied homes are rented, and when a tenant leaves for the holidays or moves out in midwinter, the heat and the plumbing stop being anyone's daily concern.
Freeze and thaw
Nights in Denver normally fall below freezing 5 months of the year, deepest in January at 17.6 degrees, the stretch when a line in unheated space can freeze with nobody there to notice; May is the wettest month at 2.29 of 15.36 inches a year, both figures recorded at DENVER-STAPLETON, 0.6 miles away. Five months is long enough for a building left empty over the holidays to lose its heat, but short enough that lines in garages and crawl spaces are seldom wrapped, so a deep cold snap finds them unprotected.
Failures that go unseen here
- Apartment towers and large complexes holding about a third of all homes, where a leak in an empty unit is found by the neighbors below rather than by anyone inside it
- A freeze season short enough that garage and crawl-space lines go unprotected, so a rare week of deep cold splits pipes that have held for years
- Several thousand houses held vacant for reasons other than sale or rent, outside anyone's routine and easily left unvisited through a cold snap
Water Damage Restoration services in Denver
What failed decides where this starts. Water Damage Restoration routes each of these to independent contractors working in Denver.
- Emergency
Emergency Water Extraction
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Frozen & Burst Pipe Damage
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Vacant & Second-Home Water Damage
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Snowmelt & Runoff Flooding
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Ice Dam & Roof Leak Damage
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Sewage & Septic Backup Cleanup
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Structural Drying
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Areas covered around Denver
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Frequently asked questions
Who usually finds a leak in a Denver apartment building?
Often not the person whose unit it started in. In a building of twenty or more units, water from an empty apartment travels down through floors and wall cavities, and the first sign is a stain or a drip in a unit below. Telling the building manager where the water appeared, and when, narrows the search to the units above it.
Why do Denver pipes split in some winters and not others?
Because the freeze season is short and usually mild enough that lines in garages, crawl spaces and exterior walls get by. The damage comes in the occasional stretch when lows fall far below the normal January figure for several nights running. Those are the nights to keep heat up in rooms with exposed plumbing and to check any building that is empty.
What should a Denver landlord do with an apartment between tenants in winter?
Keep the heat at a normal setting rather than off, leave the cabinet doors open under sinks on outside walls, and have someone inside the unit every few days. An empty unit gives no warning of its own; the neighbors below will usually notice a leak first, and by then it has run through the floor between them.
Denver, CO
Denver: a leak nobody saw start?
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If water is still running, find the main shutoff or, on a well, switch off the pump at its breaker before calling.