Water Damage Restoration in Denver, CO

When it comes to water damage, here's what we see most across the Denver metro.

Basements and crawlspaces

Water always ends up at the lowest point, so this is often where most of the losses and damages are. There's another reason why we find so much water damage in basements and crawlspaces around Denver. Much of the Front Range has clay soil that swells when wet and shrinks when dry. This happens every season in cycles. That movement is often behind the hairline foundation cracks found in so many metro homes. After a wet spring or a hard summer storm, groundwater finds those cracks and makes it inside your property. Window wells are the other common way in. Finished basements need egress windows, and every one is on top of a well that has to drain. When the drain at the bottom clogs with leaves and silt, the well fills faster than it empties and water comes in around the window. This is called a flooded well. Furthermore, basements are where most water heaters are located. When those blow, it usually means water damage. Lastly, basements are a place where people often store belongings. So, if you need water damage restoration in Denver, CO, know that we also provide contents restoration to save those belongings that got wet. If the water is coming up through a floor drain instead, that's not a clean-water problem, and it changes how everything gets handled — see sewage cleanup services.

Attics and ceilings

A ceiling stain doesn't mean that water is entering directly above it. It could be moving along the rafters and dripping somewhere that is some distance from where the water is getting in.

Kitchens and bathrooms

You'll know immediate failures like a burst supply line as soon as it happens. However, it's the small leaks that sometimes end up doing the most damage, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. These slow drips soak subfloors and invade wall cavities. They can be damaging your property for months without you even knowing it.

Garages and exterior walls

Denver's weather does a number on garages and exterior walls. It's because this area gets so many extreme temperature swings. A sixty-degree afternoon quickly gives way to a night where the temperatures reach the upper twenties. Those swings cause problems for pipes running up exterior walls or uninsulated pipes inside garages. This is especially true in older Denver homes built before current insulation standards. Major pipe freezes happen every few years around here. Just recently in February 2021, pipes burst across the metro during the warm-up. That means that after a cold snap, check your pipes. You might just catch an early leak before it causes major damage.

Commercial spaces

Offices, retail, lobbies, and mechanical rooms carry the same risks at a larger scale. Commercial buildings also include fire sprinkler systems. Unfortunately, a burst sprinkler line takes your entire fire suppression system offline. Rooftop units, water heaters, and boilers in mechanical rooms round out the list of water damage areas we see most during commercial calls throughout the Denver region.

We provide water damage restoration in Denver across all types of properties. These are the types of buildings we most often work in:

Single-family homes

Water damage can happen in these properties for all types of reasons, but some of the most common reasons include:

• Broken appliances
• Burst water heater
• Overflowing tub
• Flood
• Sewer backups

Condos and townhomes

These types of properties can have water damage for all of the same reasons as a single-family home. However, there are also risks from the unit above you.

When water comes through your ceiling from a neighbor's unit, it still floods your property.

Apartments and rentals

While many of the causes of water damage in these types of properties are similar to the above, who can authorize the work often gets complicated. There is also the issue of who is responsible and liable for what happened.

We work directly with landlords and property managers, and we're used to the tenant calling first. We will make sure to get the right people involved to authorize the work before we begin.

Mobile and manufactured homes

These are built differently. And that matters because water damage can look and act differently in these types of properties.

The plumbing runs beneath the floor, inside a membrane called the belly wrap or bottom board that also holds the floor insulation in place. A leak collects there, and the insulation soaks it up and holds it against the subfloor. Nobody knows if anything is wrong inside at first. Often the only sign is a sagging bulge in the wrap underneath.

Many manufactured home subfloors are particleboard, which swells and becomes ruined when it gets saturated. Drying one properly includes:

• Opening the belly
• Removing the wet insulation
• Drying the floor system
• Resealing it

Commercial and industrial

In a commercial building, there are a whole lot of places where water damage can come from.

However, the bigger cost is usually downtime. We can isolate the affected space, work outside operating hours, and keep the rest of the building running, with documentation kept separately for each tenant affected.