Charlou is a single loop road, Charlou Circle, with one way in and 91 houses on the inside and outside of the loop, on the east side of Cherry Hills Village near Belleview and Colorado Boulevard. The ground was bought in 1927 by Charlou E. Dake and sold off in pieces to builders decades later; most of the houses went up in the 1980s and 1990s on lots between half an acre and an acre, with 4,000 to 7,000 finished square feet apiece and full basements under nearly all of them. A homeowners association keeps up the common ground and plows the loop.
The water pattern is a 1980s two-story on a flat lot: a second-floor laundry and three or four bathrooms stacked over living space, a finished basement under that, and a roof that has taken thirty years of Front Range hail. Ground water is less of a story here than upstairs plumbing and the roof.
This site puts Charlou homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters every level before deciding anything.
A washing machine supply that let go on the second floor and came through the kitchen ceiling is burst pipe water damage, and the crew works down through every level the water touched. A basement that took the runoff from that same leak gets the pad pulled and every wall metered as part of the same visit. After the wet material is out, structural drying runs equipment until the ceiling, walls, and slab read dry.
The loop has a single entrance and the association handles snow and trash, so a drying trailer parked on the circle for a week is something to mention to the association. Drywall, plumbing, and electrical work on the rebuild need a permit from the Cherry Hills Village building department before the walls close, and a 1980s house that had polybutylene or early PEX runs replaced should have that documented for the file.
Call (720) 807-5901 and describe what you see. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Charlou.
Groundwater, a failed pit pump, or a broken line in a finished Cherry Hills basement pumped out, then carpet pad, drywall, and framing metered.
Standing water pulled off hardwood, tile, and basement concrete on any level of the house, with the first moisture readings taken the same visit.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until plaster, studs, subfloor, and slab reach their dry target in a mile-high house.
Cleanup after a supply line, hose bib, or sprinkler backflow froze in a January cold snap and split, then drying of everything the thaw soaked.
A failed supply line, boiler fitting, or radiant loop on an upper floor, and the ceilings, walls, and floors below it, dried from the top down.
A high Denver Water bill, a warm patch on a slab, or a musty wall traced to its source before anyone opens plaster or cuts tile.
A tank that let go in a basement mechanical room or a garage closet, and the flooring, drywall, and storage around it dried out.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a summer hailstorm or a wind-lifted shingle let water into the house.