What Causes Water Damage In Homes? (2)

12/13/2016 (Permalink)

Gutters

Often forgotten, gutter pose a huge threat to the safety of your home when it comes to water damage. Normally, your gutters have the job of directing water away from your roof and away from your building more generally as it runs off the edges. This will work fine though until the gutters become blocked with debris such as leaves and branches and thus another dam forms. Now the water will begin to overflow over the edges of the gutters and thus start running down the side of the house. This same problem can also be one of the causes of water damage in other ways. For instance, if there should be a crack or a hole in your gutter, then the water will leak down the side of the building even when there isn’t heavy rain.