Severance Water Damage Restoration

Water Damage in Severance: What We Actually See Here

Severance was a crossroads with a famous bar and a few hundred people not long ago. The U.S. Census Bureau put the population at about 11,554 as of July 2024, up from roughly 7,683 in 2020, which is close to a 50 percent jump in four years. Practically the whole town is subdivision built since the mid-2010s: Tailholt and the Cottages at Tailholt, Hidden Valley Farm, Severance Shores, The Overlook, Summit View, Timber Ridge, Blue Spruce and Hunters Crossing, with new filings still going in.

Because so much of Severance was built inside a single decade by a handful of production builders, the water losses repeat. We see the same toilet supply line, the same refrigerator ice maker connection, the same furnace condensate drain and the same freeze-cracked sprinkler backflow, house after house, street after street. Many of these homes were delivered with unfinished basements and owners have since added carpet, drywall and a bathroom down there, usually without changing where the floor drain is.

Expansive Clay Under Ten-Year-Old Slabs

The Colorado Geological Survey calls expansive, swelling soil the state’s most significant geologic hazard, responsible for more property damage than any other, and it is a real factor on Weld County’s east-of-Fort-Collins ground. Bentonite and montmorillonite clays swell when they take on moisture and shrink when they lose it, and differential movement, not total movement, is what does the damage: cracked basement slabs, disrupted sewer lines, separated water service. In Severance the practical version of that story is a young house with a hairline crack across the basement floor that starts weeping after a wet spring, or a sewer lateral that has lost its fall and backs up into a finished basement bathroom.

Weld County Hail and the Delayed Leak

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has logged 148 separate hail days in Weld County since 2010, an average of nearly nine a year, with 93 percent of them between May and August. Allstate has ranked Weld among the top counties in Colorado for hail and wind claims. What we see afterward is not the storm itself but the delayed leak: bruised shingles or a cracked roof jack on a newer home that holds through the summer and then lets water into an attic or an upstairs ceiling during the first long autumn rain or the first February melt.

How Fast We Can Reach Severance

We run out of 3787 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Unit 1, in Johnstown, roughly 20 miles southwest of Severance by way of Windsor. It is an easy drive on good roads, so a crew is normally at your house in well under an hour, and someone answers our phone at any hour of the night.

Frequently Asked Questions About Water Damage in Severance

Which Severance neighborhoods do you work in most?

Tailholt and the Cottages at Tailholt, Hidden Valley Farm, Severance Shores, The Overlook, Summit View, Timber Ridge, Blue Spruce and Hunters Crossing cover most of our calls. These are nearly all post-2015 builds, which means similar plumbing, similar mechanical layouts and similar unfinished or partly finished basements, so we usually know what we are walking into before we open the door.

My basement was sold to me unfinished. Does that make water damage easier?

Somewhat, and it changes what we do. Builders here, including Meritage at Hidden Valley Farm, commonly deliver unfinished basements. Bare concrete and open framing dry faster than finished space, but water still wicks into bottom plates, insulation and stored belongings, and it runs under a furnace platform where you cannot see it. We meter the slab and framing instead of assuming an empty basement is a dry one.

Do Severance’s soils cause water problems?

Expansive clay is Colorado’s most damaging geologic hazard, and it matters most where houses are new. Moisture changes in clay under a young slab cause differential heave, which cracks basement floors and disturbs sewer and water lines. In a town that has been building continuously for a decade, that means a hairline crack in a basement slab or a slow sewer backup deserves attention rather than patience.

It is a young town. Why do you get so many calls here?

Because Severance went from about 7,683 residents in 2020 to roughly 11,554 by mid-2024, so there are simply thousands more homes than there were, all reaching the age where builder-installed components start to fail. Toilet supply lines, dishwasher and refrigerator connections, water heaters and sprinkler backflow assemblies are what we replace and dry around most often in these neighborhoods.

Should I call my insurance company before Revive?

Call us first. Documenting the loss properly before anything is torn out or dried gives your claim real support, which matters in newer homes where a builder warranty and your policy may both be in play. We record moisture readings, map the affected rooms and photograph everything. We work with all carriers and will talk to your adjuster once the facts are on paper.

Revive Restoration has been family operated since 2016 and is locally owned by Levi, born and raised in Northern Colorado. If your basement or ceiling is wet, call (720) 340-3499 for a free inspection. We work with all insurance carriers. Browse our service areas, including neighboring Windsor, Eaton and Timnath, or read how we handle water damage.