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Water damage is not fun to deal with. You don’t want to go through your budget on repairs and spend your summer thinking about finances! This article will help you learn about simple steps you can follow to keep your house safe from potential water damage.

Get Outside

  1. Hoses: A very simple thing you can do today that will prevent water damage tomorrow is to disconnect hoses when they are not being used. Standing water can pool at the base of the house creating un-needed and unavoidable damage to your home. If you aren’t using it, our Long Beach Plumbers suggest you empty out that hose!
  2. Pipe Lines: You need to become a bit familiar with the layout of your house. Find out where all your utility pipes are located and make sure that your landscaping isn’t obscuring or overtaking them. While your yard looks outstanding when it’s overgrown, your pipes don’t appreciate it. Roots can crowd and strangle your pipes causing bad damage and sometimes breaking them completely. Our Long Beach Plumbers suggest you try to keep your yard well pruned or eliminate landscaping around utility pipes.
  3. Gutters: In order for your gutters to do their job, you have to aid in the process. Cleaning out your gutters about twice a year aids in prevent standing water, which can ultimately damage the gutters and even your roof! Not just that, but too much gunk in the gutter can cause overflow leading to puddling at the base of your house. This can end up with you having expensive foundation problems. Incurring the small cost of having the gutters cleaned, or putting sometime aide to help clean them yourself, twice a year is much more manageable and less anxiety inducing than breaking the bank over foundation repairs.

Know the Main

Do you actually know where your water main is located? The water main is mainly responsible for bringing water into your house. If you are gone for an extended period of time, do you really need water pouring into your house and possibly leaking out of faucets? The answer is No. You can shut off the main when you’re away to get rid of any possibility of leaks when you’re not there.

Act On Things

It is pretty simple to not think about a tiny water spot here or there and tell yourself that you’ll eventually get around to addressing that issue later but waiting will not make the problem any better.

Water damage leads to mold, dry rot and other unpleasant and expensive problems that are completely unavoidable! It is suggested that you call a professional Long Beach Plumber at the first sight of water damage to nip that problem in the bud, prior to it spiraling out of control.

Water Detection Devices

You more than likely have smoke detectors in your house that are there to monitor your living situation and make sure that you are safe in your home. Water detection devices do the same exact thing.

They are able to identify small levels of moisture and alert you to the presence of slow leaks that most of the time go unnoticed until they are a much larger problem. It is suggest that you place these devices near water heaters, toilets, washing machines and dishwashers so that they can detect a problem before it’s a disaster and you can keep your home safe from damage!