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Disaster restoration tips straight from the experts

Nine guides, each answering one question properly: what to do in the first day after water gets in, how a hidden leak is found, why we inspect for mold but will not test for it, and what a Kentucky hard freeze does to an empty house.

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Water damage

Water Damage: The 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.

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Leak detection

Finding a Leak You Cannot See

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.

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Structural drying

What It Actually Takes to Dry a Building

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.

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Basement flooding

Why Basements Flood Here, and What Stops It

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.

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Mold

What a Mold Inspection Covers, and When Testing Is Worth Paying For

What a visual mold inspection actually covers, what it cannot tell you, and the situations where paying for lab testing is money well spent.

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Mold

Mold Removal Versus Mold Remediation

The two words get used interchangeably in advertising. They describe different pieces of work, and knowing which you are being sold matters.

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Mold

Mold and Your Health, Without the Scare Copy

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.

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Fire and smoke

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.

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Storm and winter

Kentucky Storms, Ice, 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.

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Sewage

Sewage Backups, and What They Actually 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.

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