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What Are The Signs of Water Damage?

What Are The Signs of Water Damage?

Water damage can cause significant harm to a property if left unaddressed. Several factors, including natural disasters, plumbing issues, or appliance malfunctions, can cause it. Signs of water damage may not be immediately apparent, and ignoring them can lead to...

How to Salvage Wooden Furniture After Water Damage

How to Salvage Wooden Furniture After Water Damage

Floods, broken pipes, or any other kind of water damage can be devastating. Thankfully, you can salvage and restore a lot of your wooden furniture with the help of mitigation and restoration professionals like Valley Restoration and Construction. This guide will help...

5 Home Appliances That May Cause Water Damage

5 Home Appliances That May Cause Water Damage

We often talk about storms, rain, snow, and other external threats to your home’s integrity. However, water damage often comes from within—specifically, from appliances that use water. Today's life is so good compared to the past. Refrigerators keep our food fresh and...

What Is Water-Damaged Drywall? How Can You Repair It?

What Is Water-Damaged Drywall? How Can You Repair It?

Drywall is used for walls and ceilings and is a great way to build internal walls as well as design features. Its resilience and versatility make it the perfect building material, which is why it has largely displaced lath and plaster walls. Drywall is made of gypsum...

The Unexpected Consequences of Water Damage

The Unexpected Consequences of Water Damage

Water damage is never pleasant. Your home and furniture get soaked in water and you need to call a restoration company like Valley Restoration and Construction to mitigate the damage and restore your home. The first thing to remember is that time is of the essence, as...

Preparing for Spring and Summer Storms

Preparing for Spring and Summer Storms

Spring can be a lovely season: average temperatures, blooming flowers, and nature at its best. Unfortunately, it also comes with storms and heavy rain showers that can cause water damage to your Colorado home. As always, prevention is better than repair. Once winter...

What Is Water Extraction and What Is Water Mitigation?

What Is Water Extraction and What Is Water Mitigation?

There are so many reasons that can cause water damage: floods, heavy rains, a burst pipe while you are on vacation, drainage problems, or snow melting and seeping through your basement. Whatever the cause, it is devastating to see water flooding your home. The best...

How to Spot Signs of Water Damage When You Buy a Home

How to Spot Signs of Water Damage When You Buy a Home

Are you ready to buy the house of your dreams? Before signing the contract, make sure the house doesn’t show signs of water damage. Water can damage the structure of your home. Leaks and broken pipes may require expensive repairs, and water damage can cause the...

How to Stop Your Pipes from Freezing

How to Stop Your Pipes from Freezing

Winter is lovely as long as you have water, heat, and power in your home. Winter becomes a problem when a frozen pipe obstructs the flow of water through your home. Not only do you lack water in your house but a frozen pipe can burst, causing property damage and...

Why You Need Both Mitigation and Restoration

Why You Need Both Mitigation and Restoration

When disaster strikes, homeowners often find themselves in a state of shock. Their home has been wrecked by fire or water damage and they need to figure out a way to bring it back to its previous state. The first crucial step is to mitigate the damage. Emergency...

How to Minimize Water Flooding Damage to Hardwood Floors

How to Minimize Water Flooding Damage to Hardwood Floors

Water flooding can cause a lot of damage to your house but is especially catastrophic when it comes to hardwood floors. The only way to know the extent of the damage is to wait until the hardwood floors are dry. Then you can examine them and establish whether they...

Protect Your Home from Ice Damage

Protect Your Home from Ice Damage

Winterize Your Home Winter in Colorado can be spectacular: the Rocky Mountains and the forests spreading throughout Montrose, Ouray, Gunnison, Telluride, Ridgway, and Delta become a magical wonderland of snow, ice, and clear blue skies. But winter also comes with ice....

5 Common Myths about Mold in the House

5 Common Myths about Mold in the House

Mold can damage both your house and your health if it spreads in your house and forms colonies. This article debunks 5 common myths relating to mold.

7 Common Water Damage Mistakes to Avoid

7 Common Water Damage Mistakes to Avoid

Seeing our house flooded can be devastating. People’s first instinct is to salvage anything they can, then start cleaning the house right away. Only after that will they consider calling an emergency mitigation company. Although our first impulses make psychological...

How to Minimize Water Damage in Your Home

How to Minimize Water Damage in Your Home

What can water damage do to a house? Burst pipes, floods, or leaks can cause serious water damage in your home. Once water damage has taken place, homeowners should call their insurance company and a mitigation and restoration company to assess the damage and start...

What is Emergency Mitigation?

One of the most important investments many people make is the purchase of their home or business premises. If something happens to it, the repercussions can be immense. Seeing your property after a fire or flood is a traumatic experience. Thankfully, fire, water, and...

What to Do About Water Damage in Your Bathroom

Bathrooms are one of the most common places for water damage to occur. How does this damage take place and what can you do about fixing it? Sources of Bathroom Water Damage The shower, toilet, bath, and sink are all connected to a plumbing system in your home. This...

Ways Water Damage Can Harm Your Home

Safety First! Water damage can harm your home, but more importantly, it could hurt you too! When cleaning up any water damage, there are always precautions to take. Do not touch any water sourced from water damage if your electricity is on! You could be electrocuted....

Landscaping Tips to Keep Ground Water Away From Your House

Spring is finally on its way! While it feels good to get outdoors and welcome the warmer weather, melting snow and spring rains can lead to problems when there's too much of it at once. If your landscaping isn't done right, you may find groundwater seepage in your...