Water Damage Restoration in Original Thornton, CO

Original Thornton is the 1950s core of the city around 88th Avenue and Washington Street, where Sam Hoffman's first ranches sold for $9,950 in 1954 with a $532 down payment for veterans. The houses are one-story brick and frame ranches of 900 to 1,200 square feet on shallow basements and crawl spaces, and a lot of them still carry their original galvanized supply lines, cast iron drains, and plaster walls. Seventy years of clay swelling and shrinking under those shallow foundations has left most of them with at least one crack that weeps in a wet spring.

This site connects Original Thornton homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider.

Plaster walls hide water longer than drywall, and a 1954 wall that looks fine can read wet a foot up from the floor. Ask the crew to meter the plaster at several heights and to check the crawl space under any part of the house that has no basement, because the water in these houses ends up there.

Original Thornton water damage in a 1954 ranch

A galvanized fitting that rusted through behind the kitchen wall is burst pipe water damage. A shallow basement that takes water at the cove joint every May is a basement flooding cleanup, and once the wet plaster and paneling are dealt with, structural drying runs until the framing reads dry. A water heater in the closet off the kitchen that let go is a water heater leak cleanup.

Original Thornton's hospital, rail stop, and the city archive that remembers 1954

The city's archive collection Building Thornton, 1954-2000 holds the photographs of these streets going in, and the N Line's Original Thornton station on 88th Avenue now sits at their edge. The hospital on Grant Street, now HCA HealthONE Mountain Ridge, has served the neighborhood since the 1980s.

Call (720) 735-3725 and tell us what the basement looks like. An independent local water damage provider serving Original Thornton picks it up from there.