Winter Water Damage: Cleanup and Remediation After Freeze-Thaw: Revision history

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19 December 2025

  • curprev 19:5119:51, 19 December 2025Keenanzkbq talk contribs 72,493 bytes +72,493 Created page with "<html><p> A hard freeze over night and a brilliant midday sun can do more damage to a structure than a week of stable rain. The culprit is freeze-thaw cycling. Water finds a crack, expands as ice, then melts and retreats much deeper, duplicating the pressure and prying action with each temperature swing. Over a couple of cycles you get hairline spalls in brick deals with, loosened mortar, swollen wood, and the worst of it, burst pipelines that launch thousands of gallons..."