Why You May Want To Consider A Water Alarm System For Your Home/Office

At King's we're all about helping your and your family avoid a catastrophic loss due to a flood. So with this in mind, we recommend that you may want to invest in a water alarm system for your home or office. Whether you travel for work or otherwise find yourself out of town for long stretches of time, a water alarm system is a great way to protect your property while you’re away. These systems can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with different bells and whistles, but each is designed to alert you to a potential water leak in your home so that it can be addressed before flood damage happens.

How water alarms work
There’s are many different systems out there. Some sync with your mobile device via an application, while others don’t. Some alert you of a potential issue by sound, and others can send a push notification to your phone when it detects a moisture intrusion. With these types of systems obviously the responsibility is yours to address the problem and take action. Basically you place small devices around potential problem areas like:

• toilets
• under sinks
• next to a hot water heater
• beside your washing machine

Recommended system types
We recommend that you invest in a system that does a couple of things, especially if your home or office is susceptible to flooding and/or you have a high deductible on your insurance or no flood insurance at all:
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1. Syncs with your mobile device so that you can receive a notification should it detect a problem. Let’s say you are out of town on vacation. At a minimum, you can have a neighbor or family member stop by the house and check on things to make sure you don’t have a big problem on your hands when you get back.

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1. Can shut off the water supply to the home remotely. Some systems will do this automatically if it senses there is water leaking somewhere. Others will push a notification to you first and give you the option of remotely shutting things off if you want to. It’s up to you decide which makes sense, but one thing to consider here is that any amount of water will trip these systems. So if you have a small child in the bath and little water hits the sensor by the toilet, it will shut off your home’s water. That can be a minor inconvenience, but it can also end up saving you a lot of money if it stops an emergency water loss situation from occurring.

If you do have a flood in your home, call us today at (760) 844-2326​ to receive a free estimate. You can Trust in the King!
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