Water damage · Gulfport, FL · June 2026

A washing machine supply line failed upstairs in Gulfport

Water spread from the second-floor laundry room into the hallway, office and living room, then down through the floor into the ceiling below. We started drying that night.

Thermal camera showing wet carpet as a purple patch after a washing machine leak in Gulfport — The purple patch is wet carpet. The thermal camera shows how far the water traveled under the surface.

What we found

We arrived just before midnight. A failed supply line on the washing machine had saturated the carpet on the second floor:

Hallway: the whole floor and most of the lower walls
Office: about a quarter of the floor
Living room: about 84 of 420 sq ft of floor and 150 sq ft of wall

Water had also gone through the floor. On the first floor, acoustic ceiling tiles had collapsed and the drywall ceiling and flooring were wet.

What we did

We extracted the standing water from the carpet, removed the baseboards on the wet walls, and detached and lifted the carpet so air could move under the carpet and pad.

Downstairs we removed the collapsed ceiling tiles, cleaned up the standing water and wet towels, and set equipment to dry the flooring and framing. Dehumidifiers and air movers went in on both floors following the ANSI/IICRC S500 standard.

Moisture meter reading at the wall base after baseboards were removed in Gulfport — Checking the wall base after the baseboards came off.

Tidal technician extracting water from carpet in a Gulfport home — Extracting water from the upstairs carpet.

How we knew it was dry

June 19 · Night call. Extraction and equipment set the same night. Upstairs humidity 54%.
June 22 · Air movers and two dehumidifiers removed.
June 24 · Upstairs humidity down to 17%. Remaining dehumidifiers removed.
June 25 · Final visit.

Measured floor plan

LiDAR scan of the second-floor rooms the water reached.

LiDAR floor plan of the second-floor rooms affected by the Gulfport washing machine leak