Winter storm may have caused damage to homes in Middle Tennessee - WSMV Nashville
LEBANON, TN (WSMV) - The Winter storms this week might be gone, but the damage it leaves behind is just around the corner. At SERVPRO in Wilson County, they're getting calls left and right concerning water damage restoration. Up to four to five inches of snowfall in Lebanon this week could cause much harm to houses in the next few days. "Getting a lot (of calls) on frozen pipes, a lot of ice dams," Mike Isaacson, Owner of SERVPRO of Wilson County, said "It's probably dominated 80-85 percent of our week," Chris Burnett, Operations Manager of SERVPRO of Wilson County, said. The ice dams are formed when the snow melts unevenly on a roof and refreezes into a dam at the edge of the roof. The ice dams can cause not only damage to your roof but also the inside of your home. "The ice melts on top of the roofline and slowly leaks into roofing components, and at night it refreezes, causing ice to expand, causing damage to a roofing structure," ...