Cold Temperatures Are Not Good For Your Crested Butte Home

11/25/2018 (Permalink)

Siding is also susceptible to warping and distortion from freezing conditions.

Freezing Can Warp Siding On Your Crested Butte Home

With the winter months rearing their ugly head around your Crested Butte residence, homeowners get reminded of the often-brutal conditions that their home must endure throughout the steep temperature drops and heavy snowfalls expected. Freezing conditions alone can impact your adversely affect the structural elements of your home extending far beyond the potential damages to plumbing. Siding is also susceptible to warping and distortion from freezing conditions.

While many homeowners might not consider siding damage to be a grave concern, this crack could allow for flood damages in your Crested Butte home to occur under the appropriate conditions. The suggested response to this possibility is annual inspections into the strength and fortitude of your siding, but this is not always practical or cheap, so it does not happen as readily as it should.

The rise and fall of the temperatures throughout the winter months can attribute several types of storms and precipitation to impact your property. Once the siding has separated and allowed an access point for water to get into your home, any manner of this precipitation from melting snow to rainfall runoff could present a substantial volume of water to affect your house. Once this damage begins, you need a fast response from certified restoration specialists like our SERVPRO team.

From the moment that our SERVPRO experts arrive at your home, we can employ board up services to prevent further penetration of water while we begin mitigation work to protect your property and the contents inside of it. For substantial flooding scenarios, our Contents Department can remove at-risk items from your residence to a safe facility nearby to prevent irreparable damage until restoration work completes.

Flooding can happen in multiple ways to your property but recovering from the damage it can cause requires dedicated professionals with the tools and expertise to help. You can count on our SERVPRO of Montrose / Telluride rapid response team to work quickly to prevent further loss as we prepare your home for the restoration to follow. Give SERVPRO a call anytime disaster strikes at (970) 240-6970.

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