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Broken Pipes result in Water Damage if not fixed immediately. This article is not about “How To fix” broken water pipes. Rather, this is an article about “how to” identify the source of your water leak and the most common causes of water damage to a home or building. Water Damage can result in huge expenses to a homeowner and not all expenses are always covered by homeowners insurance policies.

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Broken water pipes can cause flooding or flood damage to the contents and structure of a home or building. Also a frozen pipe can cause a pipe burst resulting in water damage and flooding. The extent of the damage will vary depending on many factors. When you have a broken water pipe it is best to shut off the water to the home as quickly as possible till the pipe can be repaired by a professional plumber.

Sometimes homeowners don’t that a may have a leaking pipe under the kitchen sink or a pipe leak under the bathroom sink. The bathroom toilets can also leak. Homes can also have leaking faucets. All of these conditions should be corrected as a slow leak is not always detected immediately but the water from the leak could be slowly draining beneath the kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanity cabinets and causing dry rot to the wood members of your home such as the underlayment, subfloor, wall studs and floor joists. If the leak is caught right away and fixed the damage may be minimal. However, a prolonged leak with water seepage onto the floor could require removing and replacing the vanity or cabinets, toilet, flooring, subfloor, underlayment, lino or tile, coving or baseboard, insulation in walls, drywall, paint and other trim. Very expensive and hopefully your insurance covers the entire project.

Appliances can also be a source of water damage. Dishwashers can leak. Dishwashers have a water inlet hose and drain hose. Either of these hoses can leak at the fittings or along the hose. Water heaters can leak. They can rust out at the bottom and produce a slow leak that you may not even be aware of. Washing Machines can also be a source of water leaks. The hoses or fittings may be leaking or perhaps the drain hose has lifted itself out of the drain pipe in the wall. When the drain hose pops out of the drain pipe suddenly that can make for quite a nice flood very quickly.

Common rooms of the home where water damage occurs are the kitchen, bathrooms, water heater closet and laundry room. Watch out for bathtubs and showers as the water can drip around the edges or onto the floor and oftentimes the sealant or caulking has a hairline crack and that is all that is needed for water damage to occur which eventually leads to dryrot of the wood members in the bathroom under and nearby the bathtub and shower. Appliances and the pipes connecting them can leak. Leaking bathroom and kitchen faucets and leaking pipes, overflowing bathtubs & broken toilet wax ring seals. Drain pipes can leak under the kitchen sink and under the bathroom sinks as well as the bathtub drain pipe. Even bathroom faucets can leak behind the wall and you may not know it right away until water damage has occurred.

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