# Blog

> Practical guides on water damage, hidden leaks, mold, fire and Kentucky storms.

Canonical page: https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/

## Posts

- [Water Damage: The First 24 Hours](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/water-damage-first-24-hours/): Most of what determines whether your floor is saved or replaced happens before anyone with equipment arrives. Here is what to do, and what to leave alone.
- [Finding a Leak You Cannot See](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/finding-hidden-leaks/): A supply line inside a wall can run for months before anything shows on the surface. By the time it does, you are no longer paying to fix a pipe.
- [What It Actually Takes to Dry a Building](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/drying-a-building-properly/): Box fans move air. Drying a structure means moving water out of materials and then out of the building, and knowing by measurement when you are finished.
- [Why Basements Flood Here, and What Stops It](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/basement-flooding-in-central-kentucky/): Central Kentucky sits on limestone, gets sudden heavy rain, and has a lot of houses older than modern drainage. Those three facts explain most flooded basements in this region.
- [What a Mold Inspection Covers, and When Testing Is Worth Paying For](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/what-a-mold-inspection-covers/): What a visual mold inspection actually covers, what it cannot tell you, and the situations where paying for lab testing is money well spent.
- [Mold Removal Versus Mold Remediation](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/mold-removal-versus-remediation/): The two words get used interchangeably in advertising. They describe different pieces of work, and knowing which you are being sold matters.
- [Mold and Your Health, Without the Scare Copy](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/mold-and-your-health/): There is a lot of frightening and unsourced material about mold online, much of it published by people selling remediation. Here is what the health agencies actually say.
- [After a Fire: What Happens Next](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/after-a-fire-what-happens-next/): The fire is the part everyone pictures. Most of the restoration work is about smoke, soot, corrosion and the thousands of gallons of water used to put it out.
- [Kentucky Storms, Ice, and Frozen Pipes](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/kentucky-storms-and-frozen-pipes/): The storms that cause the most interior water damage in this region are not the dramatic ones. They are the hard freezes and the ice, and they mostly damage empty houses.
- [Sewage Backups, and What They Actually Contaminate](https://www.alldrybluegrass.com/blog/sewage-backups-and-what-they-contaminate/): This is the one category of water loss where the instinct to clean it up yourself is dangerous, and where far more material has to come out than looks affected.

## Contact

- Phone (Lexington, Georgetown and Nicholasville): (859) 780-7419, answered live 24/7
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- Service area: Lexington, Georgetown, Frankfort, Shelbyville, Nicholasville, Versailles, Harrodsburg, Wilmore, Lawrenceburg, Taylorsville, Carrollton, Eminence, Kentucky
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