Two air movers and a dehumidifier on bathroom tile

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Fort Worth Water Damage — Bathroom Cabinet Moisture

The stain is not the job. The meter under the vanity was 64.5 pinless. That cavity got air.

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Loss

Water into a hall bath — vanity, toe-kick, and the floor around the toilet.

What we found

Pinless reading 64.5 under the wood vanity — the cabinet was wet, not just the tile.
Injectidry on the floor to push air into the wet cavity.
Dehumidifier running with a recorded grain depression. Condensate line in a tub or container so we’re not dumping water back on the floor.

What we did

Injectidry. Air movers. Dehumidifier. FLIR moisture meter.

Readings from this job

Vanity (pinless)
64.5
Grain depression
8 gr/lb
In / out air
86°F 39% RH in · 98°F 24% RH out

Result

Cabinet and adjacent assemblies stayed on the map until meters dropped. We don’t hang the vanity back on a wet toe-kick.

Why the cabinet got its own plan

A wet bathroom floor is easy to see. The cabinet is harder. Water got into the vanity, the toe-kick and the floor around the toilet, and wood holds water long after the tile looks fine. The meter under the vanity read 64.5, so we knew the cabinet itself was wet, not just the tile beside it.

So the cavity got its own air. We ran injectidry to push air into the wet space, put air movers on the floor, and ran a dehumidifier in the room. The dehumidifier readings were written down as we went, and the condensate line ran to a tub so the water we pulled out did not end up back on the floor.

We kept reading until the meters dropped. Only then does anyone decide what stays and what gets rebuilt. If you have a stain at the base of a cabinet, our water damage and drying page explains how we dry it, and how thermal cameras find hidden water shows how we look behind finishes. The steps we follow on every job are on the process page.

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