Burst Pipes Found on Return
Water Damage Restoration Grand Junction, CO
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What goes unnoticed in Grand Junction
Water damage restoration in Grand Junction, including Westwood Estates, Paradise Valley Trailer Park, and Heritage Heights, runs through independent local contractors, for homes lived in all year or left empty between visits. About 1,500 of Grand Junction's homes are mobile homes, whose water lines run under the floor behind skirting rather than inside heated walls.
How old the buildings are
Of the homes in Grand Junction, 47.5 percent are newer than 1989, with the median dating to 1988, the era that decided where these buildings' pipes run, including any that pass through unheated space. Manufactured-home parks such as Paradise Valley sit among the site-built subdivisions, and a unit left empty between residents loses the little warmth that keeps the lines beneath it from freezing.
The freezing season
A pipe in Grand Junction faces freezing nights 4 months of the year, down to a normal 19.4-degree low in January, and a split usually leaks on the thaw rather than the cold night itself; October carries 1.52 of the 11.7 inches in a normal year, rain recorded at GRAND JUNCTION 3.6 W 2.8 miles away and temperatures at GRAND JUNCTION WFO 3.1 miles away. A short, mild freeze season in the valley means a January cold spell catches out the lines nobody thought needed protecting, under mobile homes and in unheated garages alike.
Where Grand Junction buildings fail first
- Mobile homes with water lines under the floor behind skirting, where a gap in the skirting or a failed heat tape lets a cold night reach the supply line
- Rented homes, more than a third of the total, where a tenant who leaves for the holidays may not know where the shutoff is or whom to call
- Homes on propane at the edges of town, where a delivery missed during a cold week lets the heat go first and the pipes after it
Water Damage Restoration services in Grand Junction
Start from how it was found - on a return visit, after a thaw, or with the heat off. Independent contractors in Grand Junction take it from there.
- 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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Frequently asked questions
How are water lines on a Grand Junction mobile home protected from freezing?
Usually by skirting that closes in the space under the home and by heat tape wrapped on the supply line where it rises from the ground. Both fail quietly. A skirting panel knocked loose or a heat tape that stopped working in a mild winter only shows itself in the first hard cold spell, which is why they are worth checking each fall.
If winters here are mild, why do pipes still freeze in Grand Junction?
Because mild winters make it easy to leave lines unprotected. Most nights in the valley stay above the point that threatens plumbing, so garage runs and lines under mobile homes go unwrapped. Then a January cold spell brings several hard nights in a row, and the exposed lines are the first to go, often in homes whose owners are away.
What should a Grand Junction renter know before leaving for the holidays?
Where the water shutoff for the home is, whether the heat should be left on and at what setting, and whom to call if a neighbor reports water. Many renters have never been shown the shutoff. Asking the landlord before leaving takes a few minutes; finding it in the dark after a pipe has split takes much longer.
Grand Junction, CO
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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.