Mold inspection and removal, water damage drying
Water damage restoration in Los Angeles
We read each wet wall against a dry wall in the same house, and the drying is done when the two numbers match.
There’s no charge for the inspection. You keep the map and our findings, whoever does the work.
Water coming in now?A crew can be there within the hour, day or night.Call (310) 857-2520
Water keeps moving after the leak stops. It runs down inside walls and into the carpet pad, and the surface dries long before the framing does. So the first job is getting the water out. The rest is measuring where it went and drying it until the readings agree.
Where your map starts
Water coming in right now? Call or text (310) 857-2520, 24 hours a day.
- Note where you first saw the water, and about when. Our readings start at that spot and work outward.
- Take a photo of that spot as it looks now. It goes on your map as the first point.
- If you can see where it’s coming from, say so when you call. The readings either confirm it or point somewhere else.
- Close off any room where the ceiling has bowed or water has reached a light or an outlet, and leave it until we’ve looked.
What was in the water changes the job
A burst supply hose or a failed water heater leaves clean water, and most of what it soaked can usually be dried in place. Water from a washer, a dishwasher or a tub drain carries more with it, so carpet pad comes out more often, and so does drywall near the floor. After sewage, anything soft it touched comes out.
No wall gets opened until you’ve seen the map.
Your scope is drawn from the map, so every price on it points to a place in your house.
How a water job goes
- You call and say where the water is showing, and whether it has stopped.
- Standing water is pulled out before anything else. Then we read one wall we know is dry, so every number has a baseline, and a moisture meter and a thermal camera go over the walls and ceilings around the wet area. Every reading goes on a map of your rooms.
- What can dry as it is and what can’t stay goes on your written scope.
- Drying equipment is set where the readings run highest, and each drying zone gets a reading at every visit.
- When each wet wall reads like the dry one, the equipment comes out. Walls and floors are put back on a scope of their own.
What decides the price
- How far the rings on your map reach from the source, and how many rooms they cross
- Packing up and storing furniture, when a room inside the rings has to be emptied
- What sits inside the inner rings and can’t stay, such as carpet pad, flooring, insulation or drywall
- Where the water came from: a supply line, a drain or sewage
- Days of drying before the outer rings read like the dry wall
Your plumber or roofer fixes the leak itself, on their own bill. If there’s an insurance claim, your adjuster sees the same map and findings you keep, with the source marked and every reading beside it. Tell us who the adjuster is, and we’ll send both to them.
Financing is available for work insurance doesn’t cover. Ask when we go through the scope.
What people ask about drying
Can we stay home while it dries?
Most families stay put. The equipment stays in the wet zones on your map and runs between visits, and you keep using the other rooms.
It stopped leaking. Does it still need drying?
If anything got soaked, yes. The surface dried first. Framing and subfloor hold water much longer, so we read inside the wall and below the floor, against a dry wall in the same house.
Will mold grow?
It can, wherever something stays wet. The drying isn’t done until the wet walls match the dry one. If growth turns up, it’s marked on your map, and removal is priced as its own line on the scope.
Seen it or smelled it? Got a note from an inspector? Book an inspection.
Call or text, 24 hours a day.
