Can Low Temperatures and Frozen Pipes Leave Your Home with Flood Damage in Saugus?

9/23/2020 (Permalink)

If a frozen pipe breaks in your home, Contact SERVPRO for restoration.

SERVPRO can remove water damage after a frozen pipe breaks. 

Frozen pipes are more than just an inconvenience in Saugus. While your family goes without running water, the pipes' pressure expands as the frozen area swells. As soon as the affected area of pipe bursts, ice-cold water sprays into your home. Depending on the pipe's diameter, this can range from hundreds of gallons an hour to several hundred a minute. 

SERVPRO helps homeowners deal with all types of flood damage to their Saugus properties, and our building crew helps with repairs. Having an extra resource available to our customers speeds things up while keeping costs low and manageable. When pipes break inside exterior walls, many customers are glad to find that we can handle tear-out work and minor demolition, as well.

Drain lines can also freeze and break, spilling contents inside your house. We can mitigate the damage and help restore your home in such situations. Making the area clean again is crucial to protecting your family. Decontaminating the site might also need to happen in cases involving dirty water. 

As soon as we remove the excess water, we can begin drying the area. In winter, we can choose between using isolated heat or increasing the entire house's temperature. Closing off the intake vent can keep the increased water vapor from affecting the rest of the house. Isolating the area, including the heat used, can make the process much faster. 

We discuss these options with our customers. We know that dry winter air inside your home can become damp-feeling when extra moisture enters, and we want to avoid doing anything that might make your home uncomfortable, even temporarily. A broken pipe can make the entire home feel damp, so using desiccant machines in other areas might alleviate this for you. 

For damage related to flooding and storms, call SERVPRO of Saugus, West Lynn, at (978) 744-0409. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster and can start the mitigation process soon after arriving.