There’s nothing quite like winter and its sub-zero temperatures to make you dream of sunny days and beaches far away. Unfortunately, while you can go on vacation, your home or business in the Dyersville, IA, area can do nothing of the sort. It’s also why prompt and proper water damage restoration is a must, especially […]

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Stay six feet away from family, friends, and especially strangers; this is one of the many recommendations health experts are making these days as we deal with Covid-19.  We call this “social distancing,” and if only it were that easy to avoid trouble with broken pipes, damaging storms, and reoccurring flooding that often comes with […]

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Time is no one’s ally when flooding turns your home or business into a watery headache. It’s especially true if all of that extra water shows up at an odd hour or on a weekend, and you find yourself wondering just whom to call for emergency water extraction in the Manchester, IA, area.   ServiceMaster […]

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Water and subzero temperatures don’t mix. Just ask anyone who has had their pipes take a turn for the worse when frigid cold turns water into ice. Water will have its way, and if your pipes are in the way you could easily find yourself worrying about water damage repair in Dyersville, Iowa, or any […]

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It’s one of those weather years, and chances are you’ve already heard someone say that this year—whether it was the snow earlier this year in the Galena, IL, area or the wet spring and ever-soggy summer. As fall closes in, it pays to know who to turn to if water damage restoration is something you […]

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Anyone living in the American Midwest knows that the springtime is extremely wet, and that this rainiest time of year spans from March to May. The rain, paired with snow melt at the beginning of the spring season, saturates the topsoil, eventually seeping further and further into the ground. Because of this saturation, every rainfall […]

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Of all the disasters your home or business can be exposed to, fires and floods are the most aggressively and insidiously damaging. Not only do these disasters leave immediate, often severe damage, but they both inflict additional damages in the long term. When it comes to floods and fires, the long-term damage occurring over weeks […]

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As summer comes to an end, the accumulation of precipitation from seasonal rainstorms, humidity, and overall wetness has saturated the topsoil up and down the Mississippi River banks and surrounding areas. This watery time of year may be brief, but for the time it lasts, residential and commercial districts run the risk of building damage […]

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Every spring the combination of snowmelt and heavy rains leads to flooding in rural, suburban, and even urban areas across midwestern America. Severe floods have already hit a huge spread of land from Colorado to Ohio, and more spring rainstorms are promised to come. Areas in the central Midwest have been hit particularly hard by […]

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Each summer brings cycles of rain and storms across the Midwest, and while these weather patterns are helpful for keeping droughts at bay, they pose problems for urban areas along the Mississippi River. Rapid, rising waters in the river and its tributaries can become dangerous for cities even a few miles from the river edges. […]

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