Water Damage Service
Washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators and water heaters fail slowly and hide it — we find the water behind the cabinets and dry the subfloor before it rots.
Most appliance leaks do not announce themselves. A washing-machine hose weeps behind the machine, a dishwasher seeps under the cabinet toe-kick, a refrigerator ice-maker line drips behind the fridge — and the water goes straight into the subfloor and wall base where you never look. By the time a warped board or a musty smell shows up, the leak has been running for weeks.
That slow, hidden pattern is what makes appliance leaks so damaging. The water is clean at first, but the longer it sits trapped under a cabinet or behind an appliance, the more it swells the particleboard, delaminates the flooring, and rots the subfloor — and it slides into the 24 to 48 hour mold window the moment it stays wet in a dark, enclosed space.
We track the water back to its source, pull the appliances and cabinet kicks when we have to, and dry everything the leak reached — not just the puddle on the surface. Call (866) 688-0301 and we will get a crew out.
We identify which appliance is leaking and shut off its supply — the hose, valve, or line behind it. Appliances often have to be pulled away from the wall to see what is actually happening, and we do that carefully so a slow drip does not turn into a burst line while we work.
This is where appliance leaks get missed. We use moisture meters and thermal imaging to trace how far the water traveled under cabinets, behind the kick plates, and into the subfloor and wall base. What shows on the floor is usually the smallest part of the wet area.
We extract standing water and remove saturated materials that will not dry — swollen particleboard cabinet bases, soaked pad, and any drywall that wicked water up the wall. Clean-water appliance leaks give us the best odds of saving materials when we get to them early.
We set air movers and dehumidifiers, often directing airflow into the cabinet cavity and under the kick, and take daily readings until the subfloor and framing are dry. Then we put back what came out — flooring, cabinet kicks, baseboard, and paint.
We see the same failures over and over. Rubber washing-machine supply hoses that were never upgraded to braided steel let go at the connection or split under constant pressure — it is one of the most common water losses in any home, and worth reading up on [washing-machine supply line failures](/blog/washing-machine-supply-line-failures/) before yours fails. Dishwasher door gaskets and drain connections seep under the counter where the cabinet hides it. Refrigerator ice-maker lines, often cheap plastic tubing, crack behind the fridge. And Tempe's hard water seizes shut-off valves so they corrode and weep at the stem. Different appliances, same result: water where you cannot see it.
A hose that bursts floods the room, but at least you know immediately and shut it off. The leak that quietly wets the subfloor for a month is the one that costs more, because the damage is done before you ever notice. Water hidden [under cabinets after a dishwasher leak](/blog/dishwasher-leaks-hidden-under-cabinets/) rots the floor from below, feeds mold in an enclosed cavity, and can spread into the next room's wall base. That is why we do not just dry the visible spot — we map the full extent and dry all of it, then follow through with monitored [structural drying](/structural-drying/) so nothing gets sealed up wet.
Every loss is different, so we give you an itemized estimate before work begins — never a number pulled from the air. These are the factors that move the price:
Possibly, yes. Dishwasher and under-sink leaks often travel under the cabinet and into the subfloor while the visible floor still looks dry. A quick moisture check tells us whether water is hiding under the kick plate or in the wall base before it swells the cabinet and grows mold. It is far cheaper to confirm it is dry than to discover a rotted subfloor months later.
If they are the original rubber hoses, yes — braided stainless steel hoses cost a few dollars and prevent one of the most common household floods. A rubber hose under constant water pressure is living on borrowed time, and a failure while you are at work can put hundreds of gallons on the floor.
Sudden, accidental appliance failures — a hose that bursts, a line that lets go — are typically covered by homeowners insurance. A slow leak that was ignored for months is often excluded as a maintenance issue, which is one more reason to act as soon as you notice anything. We document the source and the loss so your claim is classified accurately.
It depends on the material and how long they were wet. Solid wood often dries and survives; particleboard and MDF bases swell and delaminate once saturated and usually have to be replaced. We assess each one, dry what can be saved, and only remove what genuinely cannot.
40 to 50 gallons on your floor in minutes — fast extraction and drying when a Tempe water heater lets go, tank and cleanup handled.
Learn moreWe dry your home to the core — walls, slabs, subfloors and attics — with a calculated drying plan and daily moisture readings, not guesswork.
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Our Tempe crew answers 24/7 and aims to be at your door within the hour. Get extraction and drying started before the mold clock runs out.
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