Job completed for Upstairs Bathroom Water Damage Drying and Equipment Cleaning

A Blythewood, SC homeowner called Kingsley water damage & Fire cleanup after a leak in an upstairs bathroom spread past the bathroom floor. Water moved into the bedroom next door, the master closet, and a linen closet, then came through below into the storage space under the stairs and the garage ceiling. The family needed every wet area found, the damaged materials opened up, and the whole house dried without our equipment leaving anything behind.

Kingsley water damage & Fire cleanup started by mapping moisture room by room. We used pin and pinless meters on the bathroom and bedroom subfloor, the closet wall bottoms, and the framing above the under-stairs storage and garage, and took a dry-standard reading from unaffected material in the same home so we knew the exact target. Furniture was wrapped in plastic, wet flooring came up in the bedroom and closets, drywall was flood-cut where readings ran high, and a section of the garage ceiling was opened so the wet joists and duct area could breathe.

The exposed subfloor and framing were HEPA vacuumed and treated with an EPA-registered antimicrobial. We placed air movers to sweep air across the open wall cavities and subfloor, ran low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers to pull the moisture out of the air, and logged readings on every visit until each area matched the dry standard.

When the last readings passed, our technician pulled every air mover and dehumidifier and wiped down and disinfected each unit at the truck before it left the driveway, so nothing from this loss travels to the next home. Homeowner takeaway: water from an upstairs bathroom rarely stays in one room, so if a ceiling stain shows up below, have the cavity checked before anyone paints over it. If you have water damage in your Blythewood home, call Kingsley water damage & Fire cleanup at 803-219-8873. Our team is available 24/7 for emergency water damage service.