This morning we received a call for water mitigation in Charlotte from a home on Wesley Heights way near downtown Charlotte. Most of the homes in the neighborhood where built in the 1920’s and 1930’s which means some of the plumbing is older in the houses in the community which makes some of the houses susceptible to water damage. This is actually the 2nd home on the street we serviced for water damage cleanup this year. The homeowner was in the process of making major upgrades and as he was installing a new toilet in the bathroom the pipe broke on the shut off valve shortly after working on it. The homeowner wanted to keep as much of the original structure and features of the home as possible but did not think about the risk older plumbing can have which it comes to water restoration. The exact reason some pipes break or burst can vary with each situation but in this can when the toilet was removed and installed disturbing the old pipe resulted in a small break in the pipe that led to a large water leak while they were not hope causing a large amount of water damage
