Here to Help with the Colorado Floods

McAdams Plumbing is here to help with the current Colorado floods. In this time of devastation the most important thing is to ensure that friends and family are safe and accounted for. We ask that you please cooperate with any requests for evacuation that may still come. While it seems the worst has past, the forecast shows that it’s not quite over yet.

With all of the excess water that is affecting the Colorado homes, MP has noticed that it seems sump pumps and water heaters are the most common items to fail. Because of this we have decided to offer $100.00 off ANY sump pump or water heater installation for homes affected by flood waters, good through the month of September. There is going to be a lot of stress and worry as our friends and neighbors get their lives and homes back in order. Hopefully we can help take a little of your shoulders.

At McAdams Plumbing our relationships with our customers mean the world to us. If you have been affected by the flood, please don’t hesitate to call. We’re here for you. 303-465-1900.

MP

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Beware of Water Damage!

Water damage is can happen to anyone, at anytime. Water, as you probably know, is the most destructive force on Earth! It can carve valleys and move mountains. It can also collapse the ceiling in your home and destroy all your floors.  3 cubic feet of water weighs roughly 1,700 pounds, that’s as much as a Smart Car or an average Plains Bison. For that reason McAdams Plumbing wants to continue to push the point that during the cold winter months you must be careful to avoid freeze break in your pipes.

Since December of 2012 McAdams Plumbing has been called out to 31 calls for leaks related to freezes. Most of them were caught swiftly and (relatively) little damage was seen. But some of the others were not so lucky. This blog is going to highlight what happened to one of our “not so lucky” friends in Longmont.

What you see above is 4 separate water lines that froze, then burst in an unoccupied home in Longmont. Now this event was no fault of the owners. This was a home he owned and was remodeling one floor at a time. While he was away from the home for a week the furnace failed and afterward, with the very low temperatures outside, the house began to freeze. When the pipes burst (almost all in different locations) water began filling the home. I wish I could say it happened slowly but it did not.

All in all, 180,000 gallons (no, that is not a typo) of water flooded 2 stories of this 3 story home. If we follow the math that says every gallon of water weighs 8.34 lb., then this house withstood (over time) 1,501,200 lb. of water! That’s just an amazing.

This is why we always remind everyone we can to leave the heat in their home at no less than 62*F at all times and to insulate pipes that are on outer walls or exposed directly/indirectly to freezing temperatures. In cases like this one though, even those measures weren’t enough. You just can’t anticipate a furnace failing. That’s why we so strongly recommend the addition of a WaterCop Automatic Water Shut-Off Valve to any home that you claim ownership on. A little money out of pocket in advance could save you several thousand dollars in the future.

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WaterCop is one of McAdams Plumbing’s favorite devices to install. Not because it’s an easy in and out, but actually because it is a great product! You can find information about WaterCop under both the WaterCop Shutoff and Leak Management pages of our website. You can also learn all about the installation and use of the WaterCop system in our process video below!

Why do we have so much information on our site about this product? Well that’s an easy answer: because it WORKS! DynaQuip is an outstanding company with awesome customer service and a great business record. We fully trust them and they trust McAdams Plumbing enough to make us certified WaterCop installers.

If those 2 pages and that video weren’t enough to get you interested in WaterCop, how about this:

From January 1, 2013 through March 31, 2013 MP will offer you a WaterCop Automatic Water Shut-Off Valve + Installation for only $1,025.00! That’s a savings of over $400.00!

Ok, I don’t think I can do much more than that to catch your attention. Hopefully you like what you saw and read here. Please contact McAdams Plumbing at 303-465-1900 for scheduling or any further questions.

Thanks for your time!

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