Battling Frozen Pipes In Rexburg

11/19/2016 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO to Help Storm Damaged Frozen Pipes in Your Rexburg Property

SERVPRO Tips and Assistance for Winter Induced Plumbing Problems

It takes a lot to protect your home or commercial property from frozen pipes occurring during the winter months. You would need to have access to proper equipment, knowledge, and experience to tackle everything that needs doing. How many of you are laborers, plumbers, and carpenters all rolled into one? Do you even know what to do to protect your home?

Our professionally trained technicians can handle storm related frozen pipes in Rexburg. Doing this type of repair or preparation yourself could cause far more damage than if you wouldn't have done anything at all; call our offices today to get the expert assistance that you deserve.
 
SERVPRO is here to help you prevent frozen pipes from ever happening and is there for those of you who don't head this advice to prepare your home in advance. Preparing your home for the winter takes a little work. Water hardens and expands when it freezes, putting pressure on whatever is containing it. Regardless of the type of material, your container consists of; it will crack or break due to expansion during severe weather if you don't take the proper steps to protect it.
 
Our SERVPRO technicians check your outside hoses, swimming pool lines, water sprinkler system and water supply lines that get installed in open, unheated, areas such as your garage, kitchen cabinets, attics, basements and other crawl spaces throughout the home. These pipes are likely to have little to no insulation on them, and it makes them prone to freezing.
 
SERVPRO also highly recommends that you drain all of the water from your swimming pools, water sprinkler systems, and outdoor hoses before cold weather hits; you might end up with far more trouble than you wanted if you don't. It would also be beneficial to shut off inside valves that supply water to the external devices and leave any faucets open to prevent damage from expansion.
 
There are ways to properly install insulation on these exposed pipes that will assist them in preventing damage. With heat tape and cabling available to resist freezing on exterior faucets and piping as well.
 
Make sure that you keep your garage doors closed as much as possible, open your cabinets in your kitchen and bathroom storage areas to allow heat to enter and always maintain a constant temperature in your home, whether you are there or not.
 
We can assist you with your cold weather preparation. Call SERVPRO of Rexburg - Rigby today. (208) 356-0263