Emergency
Frozen & Burst Pipe Damage Denver, CO
Pipes split while frozen and leak when they thaw. The water arrives on the warm day, often days after the cold that caused it. A frozen line usually splits during the freeze and leaks during the thaw, so the water arrives on a warmer day than the cold that caused it. Every line in the building is treated as possibly split until it has held pressure after thawing.
Shut the water off first, then call
Often needed alongside
- 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.
- 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
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.
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