The coldest months in Colorado are December, January and February. Here are some great tips from Allstate Insurance to protect your home from freezing pipes.
Prevent Your Pipes From Freezing
Disconnect all gardening hoses and install covers on all outside faucets.
Keep your house temperature at 68 degrees or higher, even if you're leaving the house for an extended period of time.
Open cabinet doors below sinks to allow heat from the home to circulate.
Identify the location of the main water valve and the valve on your water heater. (Learning the location of these valves may come in handy during an emergency.)
Wrap pipes nearest exterior walls and in crawl spaces with pipe insulation or with heating tape. This can prevent freezing, especially for interior pipes that run along outside walls.
Close all windows near water pipes; cover or close open-air vents. Freezing temperatures combined with wind drafts can cause pipes to freeze more frequently.
Heat your basement and consider weather sealing your windows.
Insulate outside walls and unheated areas of your home.
If you plan to be away from home for an extended period of time, shut off water supply valves to your washing machine.
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If the worst case happens, American Restoration Inc is your local EMERGENCY response team since 1996. We can help stop the water and dry your home or business quickly. We also work directly with your insurance company on your behalf to make sure the job is done correctly, the first time!
Call 303-816-0068 - we're available 24 hours a day, every day to help you handle your emergency.
We hear temperatures will reach freezing tonight. Please safeguard your pipes and yourself a not-so-fun experience by following those tips above. Call us if you need assistance, we're available 24 hours a day 7 days a week, every day of the year.
When power outages happen like the one yesterday, freezing pipes are a possibility if they last long enough and you don't have an alternative heat source or generator.
Think it's a job best handled by professionals? Give us a call anytime, day or night, we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When you call American Restoration Inc, we respond with state of the art equipment to help locate the water and dry the structure fast and efficiently. We use moisture meters, sensors and infrared imaging to map where the water has traveled and figure out how wet the building is. We complete any necessary demolition, then start the drying process using air movers and dehumidifiers.
We can also handle your insurance claim
paperwork and take more stress off of you.
"The big chill arrives Saturday, lasting through Monday. It should be a little breezy, taking our wind chills well below zero." according to
the local forecast here.
Keep those pipes safe by following our tips, and call 303-816-0068 if you have any trouble.
Keep your house temperature at 68 degrees or higher, even if you're leaving the house for an extended period of time.
Open cabinet doors below sinks to allow heat from the home to circulate.
Identify the location of the main water valve and the valve on your water heater. (Learning the location of these valves may come in handy during an emergency.)
Wrap pipes nearest exterior walls and in crawl spaces with pipe insulation or with heating tape. This can prevent freezing, especially for interior pipes that run along outside walls.
Close all windows near water pipes; cover or close open-air vents. Freezing temperatures combined with wind drafts can cause pipes to freeze more frequently.
Heat your basement and consider weather sealing your windows.
Insulate outside walls and unheated areas of your home.
If you plan to be away from home for an extended period of time, shut off water supply valves to your washing machine.
You can try
taking care of water damage yourself,
but definitely call us before you call your insurance company. If the amount of damage will be under or just about the amount of your deductible, you don't want to file a claim that you don't use. You'll pay that deductible amount to repair the damage either way, but by not filing a claim with your insurance company, you won't give them a reason to raise your rates. We're happy to get you an estimate of cost so you can decide how to proceed, and if filing a claim is necessary, we will work with them to help take the burden off of you.
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