by DKI Calgary | Oct 20, 2026 | Water Damage
It has been minus 28 for a week. Then the chinook arrives, the temperature jumps twenty degrees overnight, and by morning there is water dripping from the light fixture in the upstairs hallway. The roof is fine. Nothing is leaking from outside. What you are seeing is...
by DKI Calgary | Oct 3, 2026 | Water Damage
Quick answer: If a pipe bursts in your Calgary home, shut off the main water valve, open the lowest taps to drain the lines, cut power at the breaker to any wet area, then call a 24/7 restoration team. To prevent frozen pipes, keep the heat at 15°C or higher, insulate...
by DKI Calgary | Sep 30, 2026 | Water Damage
You go downstairs for a load of laundry and the concrete is dark and wet around the base of the tank. There is no obvious burst, no spraying pipe, just water where there should not be any, and it is still coming. A hot water tank leaking in a Calgary basement is one...
by DKI Calgary | Aug 31, 2026 | Water Damage
The brown ring on your ceiling appears in January, on a day when it is not even raining. Outside, a thick ridge of ice sits along the edge of your roof with icicles hanging off it. That ridge is an ice dam, and the stain below it is the first sign that meltwater has...
by DKI Calgary | Aug 31, 2026 | Water Damage
A supply line lets go under your kitchen sink while you are at work. By the time you get home the water has crossed your floor, soaked into the subfloor, and come through the ceiling of the unit below. Then the property manager tells you the building’s insurance...
by DKI Calgary | Jul 16, 2026 | Water Damage
Many Calgary homeowners assume their house insurance covers flooding. It usually does not. Overland water insurance is a specific add-on that covers water entering your home at ground level from heavy rain, rapid snowmelt, or an overflowing river or storm sewer —...
