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Lowe Testimonial: A Holiday Disaster Made Right. Margaret Lowe had an emergency leak on Memorial Day weekend. True Plumbers found the leak (and hidden mold), and the True family took the bathroom from disaster to done.

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[Music] they also found mold which meant the garden tub had to be taken out [Applause] my name is margaret lowe and i found true builders whenever on memorial day weekend we had an emergency leak in the bathroom so i went on the website to find out what plumbers who would be working 24 hours a day so i found true builders and they sent out true plumbers to find the leak so it was pretty hard to find they also found mold which meant the garden tub had to be taken out the vanities had to be taken out the walls had to be torn apart the shower had to be torn apart to discover exactly where all the mold was it was under the garden tub where the leak had started and then went up the wall and behind the vanity and aaron bradley he was the manager over the department for our rebuild and he came out and recommended you know that we needed to do this and took care of the problem and he worked very hard for us so now it's all remodeled we're very happy the guys were very respectable of our home they put down a paper flooring from the front door to the bathroom i would recommend tree builders true plumbing their mitigation department did a fantastic job and we thank them very much

testimonials January 19, 2021

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Margaret Lowe had an emergency leak on Memorial Day weekend. True Plumbers found the leak (and hidden mold), and the True family took the bathroom from disaster to done.

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[Music] they also found mold which meant the garden tub had to be taken out [Applause] my name is margaret lowe and i found true builders whenever on memorial day weekend we had an emergency leak in the bathroom so i went on the website to find out what plumbers who would be working 24 hours a day so i found true builders and they sent out true plumbers to find the leak so it was pretty hard to find they also found mold which meant the garden tub had to be taken out the vanities had to be taken out the walls had to be torn apart the shower had to be torn apart to discover exactly where all the mold was it was under the garden tub where the leak had started and then went up the wall and behind the vanity and aaron bradley he was the manager over the department for our rebuild and he came out and recommended you know that we needed to do this and took care of the problem and he worked very hard for us so now it's all remodeled we're very happy the guys were very respectable of our home they put down a paper flooring from the front door to the bathroom i would recommend tree builders true plumbing their mitigation department did a fantastic job and we thank them very much

A Memorial Day Leak, Hidden Mold, and a Bathroom Made New: The Lowe Story

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Margaret Lowe's bathroom sprang an emergency leak on Memorial Day weekend, so she went looking for "plumbers who would be working 24 hours a day." She found the True family online, and True Plumbers came out to run the leak down. Under the garden tub, where the leak had started, they found mold climbing the wall and hiding behind the vanity - so the same True family carried the job from leak detection through demolition to a full remodel. Her review when it was done: "the guys were very respectful of our home... their mitigation department did a fantastic job."

Why bathroom leaks hide mold so well

A bathroom leak rarely announces itself where it starts. Water follows gravity and framing, pooling under tubs and behind vanities - enclosed, dark, unventilated spaces that stay damp indefinitely. Mold can establish on wet building materials within a day or two, and by the time it shows on a visible surface, the colony behind the wall is usually older and larger. That is why the discovery in Margaret's story is so common: the leak is the symptom, the moisture map is the disease.

Leak detection before demolition

Good crews find the leak before they open anything, using moisture meters to map how far water traveled, thermal imaging to spot temperature differences behind surfaces, and pressure testing to isolate which line is losing water. The goal is to open exactly what is wet and nothing that is dry - demolition guided by instruments instead of hunches. Margaret notes the leak "was pretty hard to find"; hard-to-find is precisely where instrumentation earns its keep.

Why one team from leak to rebuild matters

  • No coverage gap between "the plumber's job" and "the restoration company's job" - one scope, one accountability
  • One documentation trail for insurance: cause, moisture readings, drying logs, and rebuild scope from a single source
  • The rebuild crew knows exactly what was behind the wall, because their own team opened it

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