Home Water Risk Check for Cary

The rolling Triangle Piedmont takes tropical-storm and heavy rain that floods low ground and creeks like Swift, Crabtree, and Walnut, many homes have finished basements and sump pits that fill during storms, long humid summers run the AC for months so condensate lines clog and overflow, and the occasional hard freeze splits pipes in garages and outside walls.

Test your sump pump and add a battery backup, clear gutters, downspouts, and yard drains, make sure soil grades away from the foundation, and keep valuables off the basement floor. If water gets in, call early, because the sooner drying starts the less you lose to mold.

In a humid Cary summer the AC pulls a lot of moisture out of the air, and that water drains through a condensate line. If the line clogs or the drain pan rusts, the water overflows, often into the ceiling below an attic or upstairs air handler. Flushing the line and adding a float switch prevents most of it.

If it is safe, shut the water off at the main, stay off the wet floor, keep clear of outlets and the panel, and call us. If it is a sewage or storm flood, do not touch the water. We talk you through the rest while a crew is on the way.