Water Damage Restoration in the Broadmoor Area

Updated November 12, 2026

The Broadmoor area spreads across the plain and foothills below Cheyenne Mountain in 80906, reaching up into the valley where Cheyenne Creek leaves North Cheyenne Cañon. People wrote about mansions on Cheyenne Road as early as 1916, and The Broadmoor resort opened in 1918. The area did not join the city until 1980. What you find today ranges from century-old estates to large custom homes built in the last twenty years, and the water problems follow that range.

Why bigger houses lose more to one leak

A sprawling house has long supply runs, several bathrooms, wet bars, a laundry on more than one floor and often two or three water heaters. Every one of those is a place for a fitting to fail, and in a house this size nobody may walk past it for days. Typical Broadmoor causes include:

• Hydronic boilers and radiant floor loops, in houses that have them, which develop a pinhole leak and slowly soak a subfloor.
• Supply lines in exterior walls on north-facing elevations that freeze during an arctic outbreak.
• Tile, slate and shake roofs cracked by hail, with valleys and flashing that leak into vaulted ceilings weeks later.
• Hillside lots where the uphill foundation wall takes runoff and snowmelt every spring.
• Homes left empty while the owners travel, so a failed supply hose runs for a week.

Cheyenne Creek and groundwater

In September 2013 heavy rain sent Cheyenne Creek over its banks near Cheyenne Road, and in the following weeks groundwater seepage ruined carpet and floors in some Broadmoor basements. That is the pattern to watch here: not always a wall of water, but saturated ground that pushes moisture through the slab and foundation for days after a long wet spell. If your basement gets damp every time the creek runs high, a basement flooding assessment can tell you whether drainage or the foundation is the weak link. The post on expansive soil and basement water covers why clay soils make it worse.

The first steps

Find the main shutoff now, before you need it. In larger homes it may be in a mechanical room, a garage or a meter pit near the street, and some houses have more than one. If water is coming through a ceiling, turn off the supply, then poke a small hole at the lowest point of the bulge with a screwdriver over a bucket so the drywall does not collapse. Move rugs and art off wet floors. Call your insurer and a restoration crew on the same day. Southwest side calls usually get a crew within a few hours, though a hailstorm that hits the whole city at once can push that out.

How restoration works in a high-end home

Expect the crew to spend more time on protection and documentation than in a typical house. That means floor protection on every path, containment walls around wet rooms, photos and moisture maps of each affected area, and an inventory of anything moved off site. Hardwood, stone and custom cabinetry often need specialty drying rather than removal. Mold can start inside a wall cavity long before it shows, so mold remediation gets folded into the plan if readings stay high.

What drives the cost

Price follows the square footage affected, the materials involved, how much has to come out versus dry in place, and whether rebuilding requires matching custom finishes. Access matters too: a leak above a two-story foyer needs lifts or scaffolding. The company that inspects writes up its estimate before work begins, and the restoration cost guide explains each factor.

Insurance, utilities and permits

A sudden supply line or boiler failure is the kind of loss many homeowners policies cover. Hail damage to the roof usually falls under a separate wind and hail deductible, and Colorado policies often set that one higher; see hail damage and ceiling stains. Colorado Springs Utilities serves the area, and repair permits go through PPRBD. Neighbors in Ivywild sit downstream on the same creek.