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When you smell a rotten egg odor in your home, it’s likely from sewer gas. This happens often at the Colorado Springs mitigation and restoration business. This blog answers common Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about sewer gas, including what causes the smell, how it can affect your health. At CMS Restoration, we help Colorado Springs […]

Many people ask What Causes Water Pipes to Burst? only after experiencing the damage. Corrosion, frozen water pipes, tree root encroachment, high water pressure, clogs, movement and hammering, and incorrect pipework and pipe layering are some of the reasons why pipes may burst. Burst water pipes can lead to expensive property damage, and what’s more, […]

Winter can be a tough time for homeowners, there are a lot of things that can go wrong when the weather goes below freezing. There are several preventative maintenance that homeowners can do to help pipes from freezing. One of the more common freeze breaks that we find is the water spigot. In the winter […]

Colorado had a cold snap around the end of December, with temperatures dropping below zero for two days. CMS Restoration got a lot of calls during that period and was slammed. Several weeks after that cold snap, we got a call from a homeowner saying that her entire house was flooded. When we arrived, we […]

CMS Restoration gets several hundred calls a year to go out and look at houses that either the homeowners or insurance companies want us to look at and see if there is any water damage in the house. Every once in a while, we will get repeat customers and have to return and dry them […]

CMS Restoration sent their water mitigation crew to inspect a kitchen leak and see how far it went. We found the source was from a split in a connecting corner splitter. The damage had occurred in the kitchen and leaked into the basement. Thankfully, the basement was unfinished, and the only thing that had gotten […]