Burst pipe cleanup in Spanish Fork spikes every January. A supply line in an outside wall or a garage ceiling freezes, the ice expands, and the pipe splits. Often nothing happens until the thaw. Then the water runs at full house pressure, several gallons a minute, until someone finds it.
If you have a burst pipe right now, shut off the main valve. In most Spanish Fork homes it is in the basement where the water line comes through the foundation wall, or in a utility room next to the water heater. Some older homes only have a shutoff in the meter box near the street. Then call us.
Our burst pipe cleanup starts with finding every place the water went. Water from an upstairs pipe runs down inside the wall and along the joists, then shows up as a stain on the basement ceiling two rooms over. We trace it with a thermal camera and moisture meter before we cut anything. Then we extract, open the ceiling or wall where needed, and set structural drying equipment.
We are a water damage company, not a plumbing shop. We help you get the leak stopped, and we work alongside your plumber so the repair and the drying happen in the right order. Polybutylene lines in some 1980s and 1990s houses and old galvanized steel in the original homes near downtown both break down in their own ways, and we see both.
If the break came from freezing, our frozen pipe water damage page covers what to check in the rest of the house.
