Water Categories: How Are They Determined Factor #2

5/9/2018 (Permalink)

Charlottesville Residence: here is a second factor to take into consideration when determining the category of water

In continuation of Water Categories:  How are they Determined, here is the second factor to take into consideration:

Factor #2 – Examine the materials that the water has now come in contact with.  Even if the water itself was sanitary prior to spilling out, if it has come in contact with materials not considered sanitary, the water will not take on the characteristics of what it has come in contact with.  Take blown-in insulation for example.  Picture you had a roof leak.  Clean rain water would be the source but as it trickles down it begins to saturate the blown-in insulation before making its way to the attic doorway and dripping down through the cracks.  You would not want to drink that water would you?  Of course not, because you would be consuming particles of insulation.  So even though the water source produced clean water, the water damage would be considered a Cat 2 water loss.