Emergency
Frozen & Burst Pipe Damage Limon, 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.
First question on the call: how long was it empty?
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
How long is the freezing season in Limon?
Normal lows sit below freezing from October through April, so any building without heat for a day or two in those months is at risk. That is a long stretch for a plains town, and it means a house left empty in the fall should be treated as exposed until spring, not only during the coldest weeks.
What should be done with a vacant house in Limon over the winter?
Either keep it heated and checked, or shut off the water and drain the lines. A house that is not for sale or rent often has no one visiting it, and a split line can run for weeks. Draining is the safer choice when nobody can look inside regularly.
Why do older Limon houses freeze more easily?
Many were built before 1940 and had plumbing added later, often through crawl spaces or along outside walls exposed to the wind. Those runs cool faster than lines inside heated rooms. Keeping crawl-space vents closed in winter and heat on in rooms with exposed plumbing protects most of them.
Where these answers come from: the Limon page.