A pipe burst or froze. What should I do first in Lafayette?

Shut the water if you can reach the main or the fixture stops without walking through live electricity. Kill power to a wet room at the breaker if the floor is standing and you can do it from a dry panel. Catch what you can with towels. Then get out of the wet and call. A Lafayette freeze-burst is usually a vacant, a poorly heated crawl, or a line in an exterior wall after a cold night. The first job is stop the water. The second is dry. The third is the rebuild.

Photograph the wet area for your file before everything is torn out — that is for your insurance claim, not ours. We are not the insurance adjuster. We do not file the claim and we do not promise the carrier will pay. We stabilize, extract, and leave photos, a scope, and moisture notes you can attach. Details sit on the storm water damage page. If the job becomes mold or a longer dry-out, continue on water and mold remediation.

Call or text (765) 551-7368 while it is still wet. Quotes are free. Same-day and next-day when we have a crew, with the locked urgency add-ons — not a 24-hour guarantee. Mold can begin in 24–48 hours in wet insulation and drywall paper. That is moisture science, not a service promise.