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Structural Drying & Rebuild

Lakewood, CO Water Damage Restoration

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  • Standing water answered at any hour
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    Standing water does not wait for business hours, and neither does the number.

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At the door: what the meters found, what it means, and what leaves the building.

From standing water to a dry structure

This is the order IICRC S500 describes, and the order matters more than the machines. Each stage belongs to the contractor, and each one governs the stage after it.

  1. Step 1: Stop and remove

    The source is shut off, then free water is pumped and extracted. Every hour water stands, it climbs further into drywall and subfloor, so this stage sets the size of everything after it.

  2. Step 2: Open and map

    Baseboard, wet drywall and soaked insulation come out, and meters read the material behind them. The wet edge is marked where the moisture stops, not where the stain does.

  3. Step 3: Dry to a number

    Air movers and dehumidifiers run as a sealed system, and the same points are read daily. The equipment leaves when the readings reach the dry standard for that material, not on a set day.

  4. Step 4: Close up

    Rebuild starts only after the structure is confirmed dry. Insulation, drywall and finishes go back over an assembly that will not feed anything later.

Drying a Lakewood building: what it takes

Lakewood homeowners reach an independent local contractor for water damage restoration whether the house is downtown or out in Green Mountain Village and Edgemont. A great many houses here were built without gutters at all, so the roof empties straight onto the ground at the wall.

The local building stock

The typical Lakewood house dates to 1977, with about three quarters of the stock (71.7 percent) built before 1990, so the assemblies that get wet are mostly late 1970s work. Around a median of 1977 with more than seven in ten houses older, gutters were treated as optional in a climate this dry, and a large share of the stock has never had them, so every roof plane drips along its own eave line.

What the weather does to a drying run

A normal year here delivers 17.75 inches, 2.89 of them in May, against a warm season that peaks at 72.8 degrees in July; rain recorded at DENVER 6.1 WSW 1 miles away and temperatures at LAKEWOOD 3.5 miles away. May is the wettest month at 2.89 inches of a 17.75-inch year and five months average a low below freezing, so the year's rain is small but arrives in short heavy storms; a roof with no gutter delivers all of one of those in a line against the foundation.

Where Lakewood losses usually finish

  • Roof water landing along the full length of the eave, so it arrives as a line rather than at a downspout
  • A small annual total delivered in a few intense storms, so the volume in any one event is large
  • Ground at the wall taking it directly, so the water goes down beside the foundation every time

Water Damage Restoration services in Lakewood

Begin with the wet material. From there it is extraction, structural drying, and - where drying stopped too soon - inspection and remediation, all by independent Lakewood contractors.

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Areas covered around Lakewood

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Frequently asked questions

Why would a house be built without gutters?

Because the annual rainfall here is under eighteen inches and it was not thought worth the expense. For most of the year that reasoning holds up perfectly well. It stops holding up in a May storm, when a good part of the year's total arrives in an hour.

What does an eave line do to the ground?

It cuts a trench, in time. Water falling from a roof edge lands in the same line every storm and works its way down beside the foundation, so the soil there becomes the loosest and wettest ground on the property, right where it matters most.

Are gutters worth adding now?

On the roof planes that face a wall with living space behind it, yes, and it is a modest job. There is rarely a case for gutting the whole roof line. Two or three lengths with a downspout carried well away changes most of what happens here.

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