Fire Hydrant Home Water Damage
I was amazed to see what kind of damage a fire hydrant
could do to a house, when broken. It was like spraying hundreds of
garden hoses on the roof of a house and watching the water cascade off
like a powerful waterfall. I was simply amazed and still can't believe
the damage I witnessed as the fire hydrant covered the entire house with
water.
I might be getting a little carried away here but as a building
contractor, I have seen the water damage a small leak, over a few years,
concentrated on just one single part of the home can have. This fire
hydrant broke in between two houses and was approximately 30 feet away
from each home and was covering one of them with a blanket of water,
while the other one looked like it was raining on the roof.
How can one home receive so much damage and the one next to it, located
the same distance receive very little. I won't ever be able to figure
that one out.
There was a small car in the driveway and it was getting pummeled by
water. There's no way that this car couldn't have been damaged on the
inside, with the amount of water that was flowing over it. Now the
damage to the home was a different story. It almost looked like a little
Barbie house with a fake car in the driveway and someone spraying water
directly over the home.
There was no way that anyone could come in and out of the home without
getting physically hurt from the large amounts of water that were flying
in every direction. Looking back at the water damage I've repaired over
the years and watching this fire hydrant terrorized this house and
everything in it, makes me a firm believer in the power of water.
The fire hydrant was broken because a car ran into it. Most fire
hydrants have a ring that is known as a breakaway ring, just in case
someone was to run into it with a vehicle. The ring can be replaced a
lot easier than the pipes beneath it, if they were to become damaged.
Whoever came up with this design has saved an ungodly amount of money
over the years from accidents like this.
Hard to imagine the damage a fire hydrant can do to a home.
Watch Video - Broken Fire Hydrant Home Damage