Past roughly forty-eight hours, pad and often carpet are not salvageable. Extraction speed is the whole game in water damage.

This is most common in homes built roughly 1940 to 1980. Post-war and mid-century — copper supply, aging cast iron stacks, 60 to 100 amp panels, first-generation central air.

You can handle this one yourself. No call needed.

Related

• Water under an old house after heavy rain
• Cast iron drain leaking below the floor
• Original galvanised supply burst
• Plaster holding water without showing it
• Damage from a burst pipe in a freeze
• Wet insulation under the floor
• Historic staining nobody has explained
• No shutoff valves at individual fixtures

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