Water obeys gravity. When it gets into a home high up, in the attic or a second floor, it does not stay there. It runs down through ceilings, walls, and cabinets, damaging everything in its path on the way to the lowest point it can reach. This Dallas project shows...
Water damage does not always start in the living room. Garages, eaves, and the edges of a house are common places for water to get in and go unnoticed, because they are not where people spend their day. This McKinney project followed a water problem from the exterior...
The hardest part of water damage is not the water you can see. It is the water you cannot. By the time a homeowner notices a soft floor or a musty smell, moisture has usually spread into places that look perfectly dry from the outside. This McKinney project is a good...
In North Texas, some of the worst water damage arrives on the coldest days of the year. When temperatures drop below freezing, water inside pipes can freeze, expand, and split the pipe, and when things thaw, that break releases water inside the walls of the home. This...
Water damage in an apartment or condo comes with a complication a single-family home does not have: neighbors. Water rarely respects unit boundaries, so a leak in one unit can travel to the ones beside and below it, and a slow response affects more than one household....
When water shows up on a floor, the instinct is to look down. But the source is often above your head. A roof leak can send water down through the structure and out along a hallway floor far from where it actually got in, which is why a good water mitigation looks up...
