Near Gunnison
Water Damage Restoration in Aspen, CO
Water Damage Restoration routes calls from Aspen to independent water damage contractors - about 45 miles from Gunnison.
- Independent local contractors across Colorado
- Frozen pipes, empty buildings, wells, septic and snowmelt handled as the local problems they are
- One free call; nothing to fill in, nothing to book
- The contractor who visits is the one who does the work
Services available in Aspen
Each service below is reached through the same call from Aspen.
- Emergency
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.
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Frozen & Burst Pipe Damage
Pipes split while frozen and leak when they thaw. The water arrives on the warm day, often days after the cold that caused it.
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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.
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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.
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Ice Dam & Roof Leak Damage
Snow melts over the warm roof and refreezes at the eave. The ridge of ice holds water back until it finds its way inside.
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Sewage & Septic Backup Cleanup
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.
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Structural Drying
Water that ran unnoticed reaches further than it shows. Drying brings walls, floors and framing back, measured point by point.
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What fails in Gunnison
Serving Gunnison and the surrounding area.
Local housing stock
With a median build year of 1981 and close to three fifths of its homes (60.6 percent) older than 1990, most of the plumbing in Gunnison was laid out in the early 1980s, by that era's idea of where a pipe was safe from the cold. About two in five homes are heated by electricity, so a winter power outage in a town this cold leaves a large share of its rentals with no heat at all.
Climate & seasonal risk
The freeze season in Gunnison runs 8 months of the year, with January lows at a normal -6.4 degrees, long enough for a building left heated low to lose its heat before the next visit; of 12.67 inches in a normal year, 1.84 fall in August, the wettest month, rain recorded at GUNNISON 0.8 NNW 0.5 miles away and temperatures at GUNNISON 3SW 2.8 miles away. With January afternoons normally topping out at 26.1 degrees, ice in a line can sit for weeks, and the water it has been holding back arrives with the first thaw.
What leaves buildings exposed here
- Electric heat in about two homes in five, which stops entirely in a power outage
- Rentals, more than half of homes, emptied over academic breaks with the heat turned down
- Freezing nights from October into May, with January lows normally below zero