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Your water heater works harder in a Northern Colorado winter than at any other time of year. The water coming into your home from the city or your well can be close to freezing in January, so the tank has to heat it further, more often. Add holiday guests and longer,...
When a winter storm or high-wind event knocks out power along the Front Range, most people think about staying warm. But a dark house in January is also a house with no sump pump, no furnace and pipes that are cooling by the hour. Some of the worst basement floods and...
Every fall across Northern Colorado, there's one chore that's easy to put off: blowing out the sprinkler system. The lawn is going dormant and the weather still feels mild, so it slides to next weekend. Then a cold front drops over the Front Range overnight, and the...
A finished basement is usually the best value in a Northern Colorado house. It's also, by a wide margin, the most expensive room to dry out. Two identical Loveland homes take on the same two inches of water. The one with an unfinished basement is a three-day drying...
Loveland has a relationship with the Big Thompson that most cities don't have with their river. In 1976, a wall of water came down the canyon in one of the deadliest floods in Colorado history. In September 2013 it happened again — less catastrophic, still enormous....
Of all the ways water gets into a Northern Colorado home, this is the one homeowners are least prepared for. There's no storm, no burst pipe, no warning. Someone runs the washing machine and the basement floor drain starts producing water that should be leaving the...