Before & After Gallery - Marsh Water Damage Austin

Damage Restoration Before & After in Austin, TX

A water heater lets go at 2 a.m., a shower pan leaks behind the tile for months, a storm pushes water under the back door. The damage looks one way when it starts and very different after a proper restoration crew gets through with it. We keep this gallery updated with real jobs in Austin. Not staged photos. Not “representative” work. Actual floors, walls, and ceilings we dried, cleaned, and put back together.

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Slab Leak in Cherrywood: Hardwood Floor Dried in Place

This is the job where the homeowner was told by another company that the whole floor had to come out. A hot water line under the slab had been seeping for weeks, and the cupping was severe. But psychrometric readings (measuring the moisture in the air and inside the wood itself) told us the planks could be saved. We set a drying chamber with Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and air movers, monitored daily, and after ten days the floor was back within spec. The sand-and-refinish cost a fraction of a full replacement, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise means if that floor cups again, we come back free.

Washing Machine Supply Line Burst in Mueller

A braided supply line failed while the owners were at work and fed water into the laundry room for most of the day. By the time we arrived, the water had traveled under the flooring into the adjoining hallway and into a bedroom closet. We extracted what we could, removed the unsalvageable flooring, and set up containment to isolate the wet area while drying the rest. Mitigation ran four days, then we rebuilt. One thing we always point out: this is why an expansion tank and a water shutoff valve rated for your home’s pressure are worth checking every fall.

Bathroom Mold Behind Tile in Round Rock

This one started as a “quick regrout” the homeowner hired a handyman to do. The handyman pulled a tile and found black staining spreading behind the wall. Mold remediation is not a cleaning issue. It is a containment and removal issue, and it has to be handled with negative air pressure so spores don’t spread through the house while the wall is open. We set up a containment chamber, removed the affected drywall, treated the framing with an antimicrobial, and replaced the damaged section before retiling. The homeowner asked us to be on site the day the shower was demoed, which we were, because no one wants a stranger in the house at a time like that without a name and a face and a badge on the door.

Storm Water Intrusion Through Exterior Wall in Tarrytown

Austin storms hit hard and hit sideways when they come, and this wall took the brunt of it. A failed window seal plus clogged weeps let water run down the inside of the wall cavity for hours before anyone noticed the carpet squishing underfoot. We pulled the affected drywall, removed the insulation, and dried the framing with Phoenix equipment, which moves more air than what most national franchises put in a house. Then it was new insulation, drywall, texture, paint, and carpet re-stretch. The photo doesn’t show the twelve bags of soggy insulation we hauled out. It should.

Dishwasher Leak Under Hardwood in Hyde Park

Dishwasher leaks are sneaky because they dump water slowly, under the appliance, where nobody looks until the floor in front starts to move. This one had been leaking long enough that the subfloor in a six-foot radius was saturated. We used an Injectidry system to pull moisture out from under the flooring without tearing out the whole kitchen floor. Saved the original 1930s oak in most of the room, replaced the unsalvageable planks, and blended the new wood to match. If you ever see a dark line creeping out from under your dishwasher, call before the floor starts telling you with its body language.

Toilet Overflow on Second Floor in Crestview

Second-floor water finds the path of least resistance, and in this house that path ran down through the joists, around the ceiling box, and into the kitchen below. A toilet valve stuck and ran for hours while the family was out. By the time we got there, water had already made its way into the light fixture, which is a serious electrical hazard. We killed power to that circuit, extracted the standing water upstairs, opened the wet ceiling from below, and dried the cavity with commercial air movers and dehumidifiers before any mold could get a foothold. The repair took a week, and the homeowner was back in the kitchen the day we painted. That family now has a water alarm behind every toilet in the house. Smart move.

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Every job on this page started the same way: a phone call to (361) 315-6142. A live person answered, we got a crew moving, and the written price came before any equipment came off the truck. If you’re looking at water or mold damage in Austin right now, call us. Tobias Reyner, Owner, will make sure the right technician is on the way.

Written by Tobias Reyner, Owner at Marsh Water Damage Austin, serving Austin since 2005.