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Freeze, Thaw, Then the Leak

Water Damage Restoration Longmont, CO

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

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  • Frozen lines, thaw leaks and failed heat
  • The first question is how long it ran

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    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.

Longmont: what fails while nobody is home

Found on a return visit or after a cold night, a leak in Downtown, East Side, and West Side or elsewhere in Longmont reaches an independent contractor who works the area on one call. Longmont has more than two thousand houses built before 1940, the oldest part of a housing stock whose median dates to 1991.

The housing, by age

Of the 43,528 homes in Longmont, about 20,758 are older than 1990 and the median dates to 1991; the age of a building sets how many of its pipes run through crawl spaces, garages and outside walls. Those older houses carry the city's most exposed plumbing, while about a quarter of all homes are in apartment buildings where a vacant unit's leak reaches its neighbors.

Cold months and wet months

Cold reaches furthest into an empty building in January, when the normal low in Longmont is 14.4 degrees, and 5 months of the year dip below freezing at night; the wettest month is May, with 2.53 of 16.08 inches, rain recorded at LONGMONT 1.8 E 1.2 miles away and temperatures at LONGMONT 2 ESE 1.2 miles away. By November the normal low has fallen to 23.5 degrees, so the older houses here meet hard frost weeks before the coldest month arrives.

The weak points here

  • Houses built before 1940, more than two thousand, with plumbing added along outside walls
  • Apartment buildings, about a quarter of homes, where a leak in an empty unit spreads to others
  • The 645 vacant units waiting for a tenant, thermostats down, at any one time

Water Damage Restoration services in Longmont

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

Areas covered around Longmont

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

Frequently asked questions

What should owners of Longmont's oldest houses do before January?

Find where the water lines run, close crawl-space vents, and plan to open cabinet doors under sinks on outside walls during cold snaps. Houses built before 1940 had plumbing added later, often in the coldest parts of the building.

Which neighbor usually discovers a leak in a vacant Longmont apartment?

Usually by the neighbors below, when water appears in their ceiling. The empty unit gives no warning of its own. Management that knows which units are vacant, and checks them during cold weather, catches these sooner.

Who looks after a Longmont rental between tenants?

The owner or property manager, who should keep the heat at a moderate setting and visit every few days in cold weather. A unit sitting empty in January with the thermostat turned down is the most common setting for a frozen line.

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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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