Phone calls are literally flooding in; what’s causing all the damage? 1.)    Burst pipes are the number one reason people are calling us right now. With the insistent sub-freezing temperatures, the sporadic snow fall, the slick ice, and dangerous freezing rain we’ve been seeing a lot of water damage as a result from pipes freezing, [...]

Sometimes known as ice dams, these giant icicles hanging from the eaves are not only dangerous to people walking underneath, they are often a sign of a serious problem. Ice dams occur after a heavy snowfall and several days of freezing temperatures. Warm air from inside your home leaks into the attic and warms the [...]

Brandon explains how to protect your home on KTVB this morning. Have you ever put a can of soda in to the freezer, forgotten about it, and then opened the freezer later only to find a big mess? Like that can of soda, when water freezes, it expands. That’s why a can of soda explodes [...]

Mold. The very word is enough to make a person cringe. Yes, mold can be good — it’s essential in making brie and penicillin, for example, and necessary for the decomposition of organic matter in nature — but it can also be very, very bad, especially when it grows undetected in your home. Mold spores [...]