Snowmelt and Rain on Frozen Ground: Late-Winter Water at the Foundation
The warm spell after a snowy week, and where the melt goes.
MERIDIAN · THOUSAND SPRINGS
Water Damage Restoration in Thousand Springs
Water through a ceiling or along an outside wall in a Thousand Springs home? Freeze, leak or groundwater, one number.
- Drying, mitigation and repair
- Meridian-area restoration companies
- Ada & Canyon County
Thousand Springs: Block Notes
- Built: one of Meridian's established neighborhoods, next to Mountain View High School and Gordon Harris Park
- Under the floor: crawlspaces
- Nearest canal or drain: laterals and drains along the park and neighborhood edges
- What usually fails first: lines in outside walls during cold snaps; aging fixtures inside
Next to Mountain View High and Gordon Harris Park
Thousand Springs is one of the neighborhoods local agents describe as long-established in Meridian, sitting next to Mountain View High School and Gordon Harris City Park. Houses that have been through twenty or so Treasure Valley winters have usually shown where they're weak in the cold: a kitchen line along a north wall, a hose bib that was left with a hose attached, a garage wall with a supply line running through it. What you see after a cold snap is water at the base of an outside wall or under a sink cabinet, a day or two after the coldest night. What it usually means is a split line in the wall cavity. What happens next is the water off at the main, then readings along the wall and in the crawlspace below.
From Thousand Springs Kitchens and Crawlspaces
If a line has frozen before in the same spot, say so. Repeat freezes usually mean a cold pocket in that wall, and the company will look there first.
The pages that fit most Thousand Springs calls: ceilings, walls and drywall, floors and carpet, crawlspaces and basements, frozen and burst pipes, or the full restoration and mitigation job.
Disconnecting garden hoses before the first hard freeze is the single cheapest winter habit for a house this age.
Field Notes for Thousand Springs
Two-Story Tract Homes: When the Upstairs Bathroom Comes Through the Kitchen Ceiling
The layout that puts water over the kitchen, and how to trace it.