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Freeze, Thaw, Then the Leak

Water Damage Restoration Fountain, CO

The leak started before anyone noticed. Call once from Fountain or elsewhere in Colorado, and an independent local contractor picks it up.

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  • Found on a return visit? The line is open
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  • Frozen lines, thaw leaks and failed heat
  • The first question is how long it ran

  • Answered any hour

    No closing time, because a thaw does not keep business hours.

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Before anything else: where the water came from, and how long ago.

How long water runs before anyone knows: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

Fountain: what fails while nobody is home

Found on a return visit or after a cold night, a leak anywhere in Fountain reaches an independent contractor who works the area on one call. Fountain has about six hundred houses built before 1940, alongside a newer town whose median home dates only to 2000.

The housing, by age

With a median build year of 2000 and about a third of its homes (38 percent) older than 1990, most of the plumbing in Fountain was laid out in the early 2000s, by that era's idea of where a pipe was safe from the cold. At any time a few hundred of its homes also stand empty and for sale or rent, and a house between occupants has no one inside to hear a line give way on a cold night.

Cold months and wet months

Nights in Fountain normally fall below freezing 5 months of the year, deepest in January at 18.5 degrees, the stretch when a line in unheated space can freeze with nobody there to notice; July is the wettest month at 3.99 of 18.11 inches a year, rain recorded 4.4 miles away and temperatures at COLORADO SPRINGS MUNI AP 8.4 miles away. A normal January day runs from 18.5 degrees overnight to 45 by afternoon, time enough for an exposed line to freeze before dawn and leak before dark.

The weak points here

  • Houses built before 1940, about six hundred of them, with plumbing added along cold outside walls
  • Homes empty and for sale or for rent, a few hundred at a time, heated low and visited rarely
  • Newer houses with laundry and water heaters in garages, exposed when the door is left open in winter

Water Damage Restoration services in Fountain

Choose by cause. Water Damage Restoration connects Fountain callers with independent contractors for each failure below and the water it left.

Areas covered around Fountain

For a building outside this town, use the Colorado index.

Frequently asked questions

If a Fountain house sits empty while it is being sold, who looks after the pipes?

Usually the seller or the listing agent, and it should be someone who goes inside, not just to the door. A house on the market is often heated low with no one running its taps. Keeping the heat at a moderate setting and walking the lower floor on each visit catches a leak early.

Which Fountain homes are most exposed during a January cold snap?

The oldest houses, where lines were added along exterior walls, and any home standing empty with its heat turned down. Newer houses are exposed mainly through their garages. In a cold snap, keeping the garage closed and cabinet doors open on outside walls protects most plumbing.

Does the summer rain in Fountain matter for frozen pipes?

Not directly. The wettest weather comes in July, but freezing is a November-to-March problem here. What matters in winter is whether a building keeps its heat and whether anyone would notice if it did not. Empty homes are the ones to plan for.

Fountain, CO

Found water in Fountain?

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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.

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