Completion date: May 28, 2026
Location: Cincinnati, OH
The customer contacted us for emergency restoration after a bathroom supply line or plumbing leak caused widespread water damage across multiple rooms. Water filled the bathroom floor, leaving soot-like footprint patterns and tile-grout cracking, before migrating past the doorway to saturate the concrete subfloor and wick into adjacent hallway walls, as well as heavily soaking carpeted living areas nearby.
We provided a comprehensive, broad-scope mitigation and controlled demolition solution to stabilize the property and prevent structural rot. Our team began by carefully detaching the saturated tack strips and water-damaged baseboards along the affected hallway and bedroom borders. To handle the water that had wicked upwards into the vertical structures, we performed a precise low-profile flood cut on the wet drywall assemblies, exposing the underlying framing plates to maximize airflow. We thoroughly applied an EPA-approved antimicrobial sanitizer across the concrete slab and the open wall cavities to neutralize potential pathogens and prevent mold development. Finally, we deployed heavy-duty subsurface water extraction units on the wet carpets, setting up a targeted system of commercial air movers and a low-grain refrigerant (LGR) dehumidifier to establish an aggressive drying cycle for the entire floor assembly.