Emergency
Sewage & Septic Backup Cleanup Denver, CO
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. Water that came back through a drain is handled as sewage whatever it looks like. On a septic property the system has to be carrying water away again before the building is used, or the backup repeats.
First question on the call: how long was it empty?
Often needed alongside
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Asked first on the Denver overview, with the figures behind them.