Water Categories: How Are They Determined?

10/31/2017 (Permalink)

Charlottesville Residence: What type of Water Damage Category do you have?

In the previous blog titled Water Categories: What Are They we discussed what a water category is.  Now we are going to dive deeper into that by discovering how to determine the difference.  Here are 2 factors to help in doing so. 

Factor #1 – Determine the source of the water.  If the source lets out clean water than there is a chance that the water may be clean and considered Category 1 water.  An example of this would be a sink faucet being left on and overflowing.  On the flip side of that, if the source lets out contaminate water than you know that there is no chance of the water intrusion being considered Category 1.  An example of this would be a sewage wasteline backflow that originates from beyond the trap.

Check out our 2nd blog for Factor #2.