Near Olney Springs
Water Damage Restoration in La Junta, CO
Water Damage Restoration routes calls from La Junta to independent water damage contractors - about 25 miles from Olney Springs.
- 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 La Junta
Each service below is reached through the same call from La Junta.
- 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 Olney Springs
Serving Olney Springs and the surrounding area.
Local housing stock
Just 8.1 percent of the homes in Olney Springs are newer than 1989, with the median dating to 1938, the era that decided where these buildings' pipes run, including any that pass through unheated space. Houses that old were plumbed after they were built, and the lines often run through cellars, porches and the coldest corners rather than the middle of the house.
Climate & seasonal risk
The freeze season in Olney Springs runs 5 months of the year, with January lows at a normal 12.3 degrees, long enough for a building left heated low to lose its heat before the next visit; of 11.58 inches in a normal year, 1.88 fall in July, the wettest month, rain recorded at FOWLER 1 SE 4.6 miles away and temperatures 12.1 miles away. January's normal high is 44.8 degrees, so the pipes nearest an old outside wall can freeze overnight and thaw by afternoon, over and over through the month.
What leaves buildings exposed here
- Houses built before 1940, about half the town, with plumbing added later along outside walls and through cellars
- Manufactured homes, around one in six, with supply lines under the floor behind skirting
- Vacant houses outside the rental and sale markets, which can go a winter without anyone looking inside