Water damage drying
Fire & smoke cleanup
Mold remediation
Storm response
Sewage cleanup
ReconstructionFree visual inspection and a written scope of work before any mitigation begins - photos, moisture readings, and drying logs go in your claim file
The scope we write is the scope we bill. Anything new gets shown to you, in writing, before we touch it.
Get your free estimateTrusted Water Damage Repair for Austin Homeowners
When a supply line lets go in the middle of the night or a summer thunderstorm dumps water through your ceiling, you don’t need a callback queue. You need someone who picks up, tells you what it costs, and shows up when they said they would. That’s what we do at Wendell Restoration Austin. Since 2006, our Water Damage Repair in Austin crews have handled everything from saturated drywall in Hyde Park to buckled hardwoods in Circle C. We work to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards, run Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying equipment, and put your price in writing before any tool comes off the truck. If you’ve got standing water or a spreading stain right now, call (325) 237-2088. A live person answers, day or night.
Water Damage Ceiling
Water Damage Ceiling problems in Austin show up as brown rings, peeling paint, or sagging drywall, usually after a roof leak, AC condensate overflow, or a second-floor plumbing failure. If you’re dealing with broader water issues, see our Water Damage Repair in Austin. Left alone, a wet ceiling gets worse fast: the drywall loses strength, mold moves in within 48 to 72 hours, and what started as a patch job becomes a full ceiling replacement. We cut out the affected area, dry the cavity with commercial air movers and dehumidifiers, treat framing with antimicrobial, and rehang and finish new drywall. Typical pricing for ceiling water damage repair in Austin runs $450 to $1,400, depending on how far the water traveled and whether insulation needs replacing.
After a roof leak
Roof leaks don’t always land where they start. Water enters at a nail or flashing point, runs along a rafter, and drips onto the ceiling in a completely different room. We track the stain with a thermal camera and moisture meter to find the true entry point before we touch the drywall, so you aren’t patching a symptom while the real leak keeps feeding water into the house.
Ceiling drywall replacement
Wet ceiling drywall rarely dries flat. It sags, crumbles, and loses its fire rating. We remove it back to dry framing, dry the joist cavities to an actual drying standard, and hang new 5/8-inch board that matches the existing texture. The goal isn’t a patch you’ll notice in a year; it’s a ceiling you won’t be able to pick out from the original.
Restoration work we handle
Burst Pipe Repair
Burst Pipe Repair is the call we get most often during Austin’s rare hard freezes, when copper and PEX freeze, crack, and let go the moment the thaw hits. A burst pipe can dump two or three gallons a minute, which means a half-inch crack can flood a home in under an hour. We shut off the water, extract the standing water, cut out the failed section, and install a proper repair, not a quick patch. Because we handle restoration and not just plumbing, we also dry the structure behind the fix so you aren’t dealing with swelling baseboards or musty smells three months later. Burst pipe repair plus structural drying in Austin typically runs $600 to $2,200 depending on access, pipe material, and how much drywall or flooring is involved.
Freeze and thaw failures
Texas homes are built for heat, not ice. Exterior walls in older Austin houses often have pipes in unconditioned spaces, and a single night in the low 20s is enough. We see the most failures in pier-and-beam homes in Brentwood and Crestview where supply lines run through an open crawl space with zero insulation. For homeowners just north of Austin, we also offer Water Damage Repair in Pflugerville.
In-wall leaks
A pinhole in a copper line inside a wall may drip for weeks before you notice damp baseboards, a warm spot on drywall, or a spike in your water bill. We’ll find it with a thermal camera, open the smallest access point possible, make the repair, and leave you with a clean patch and a dry wall cavity.
Water Damage Hardwood Floors
Water Damage Hardwood Floors in Austin usually start with a dishwasher leak, an overflowing toilet, or a slow drip under a sink that’s been ignored for too long. Hardwood is porous, so boards absorb water unevenly, swell, cup, and start to separate from the subfloor. The first question is whether the floor can be saved. We use Injectidry panels and RIA-standard psychrometric drying (tracking the air’s moisture level and the wood’s internal moisture content so we know when the floor is truly dry, not just dry on top) to pull water out before permanent damage sets in. Saving a hardwood floor costs $800 to $2,500; replacing a ruined section runs higher depending on species and finish.
Cupping and warping
Cupping is what happens when the edges of a board curl up higher than the center. It’s the wood’s natural response to taking on moisture, and if we get there within a few days, we can usually flatten the boards by drying them gradually with a floor mat system. Rushing the dry with too much heat causes more damage than the water did.
Refinishing after a dry-out
When water sits long enough, it stains the wood black or gray. After the structural drying is done, we sand, stain, and reseal the affected section, blending the sheen to match the surrounding floor. Austin homes with original oak floors from the 1940s and 50s are worth the extra effort, and we treat them that way.
Water Damage Repair Contractors
Hiring Water Damage Repair Contractors in Austin is about trust at a bad moment. You’re inviting people into your home when it’s at its worst, and you need to know who they are, what they’ll do, and that the price won’t change at the door. Wendell Restoration Austin has been part of the Relay Home Co. family since 2006. Every technician is background-checked, uniformed, and arrives with a live arrival time you can track on your phone, not a four-hour window. And before any work starts, the scope and price is in writing, with a digital invoice texted so you can pay from the link. Water damage repair labor in Austin generally falls between $350 and $900 per affected room for extraction and drying; full structural repairs run higher based on scope.
How we’re different on paper
We put three things in writing on every single job: the written price before work starts, a written 365-Day Done Right Promise that says if it’s not done right we make it right, and a free second visit if the repair fails. Those aren’t verbal promises from a tech racing to the next job. They’re enforceable terms on a document you keep.
Choosing the right contractor
Look for a contractor who answers the phone with a human being, not a phone tree. Ask whether they’ll write the price down before demo starts. And confirm they run their own drying equipment to a recognized standard rather than setting up three fans and calling it dry. Those are the questions that separate restoration companies from crews that just make the wet go away.
Burst Pipe Cleanup
Burst Pipe Cleanup is the urgent part no one thinks about until it happens: water is gone or stopped, but everything it touched is soaked and spreading. Within minutes of a pipe failure, water is under baseboards, inside wall cavities, and wicking up drywall. We mobilize same day with truck-mounted extractors, Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers, and Phoenix air movers to pull the water out before it becomes a mold problem. Because we answer 24/7, our Austin-based crews are usually on-site within an hour of your call. Expect burst pipe cleanup in Austin to cost between $1,000 and $3,000 depending on the square footage affected and whether cabinetry or flooring needs to be pulled.
First 24 hours matter
The difference between drying a wall cavity and gutting it usually comes down to how fast the water comes out. Standing water on a slab starts wicking up drywall within an hour. By the time you see high moisture readings around Austin’s humid June weather, mold spores have a foothold. We treat extraction as an emergency, because it is.
What gets thrown away
Not everything wet is ruined. Solid wood furniture, tile, and sealed concrete usually dry fine. Carpet pad, wet insulation, and swollen particle board usually don’t. We walk you through the salvage-versus-replace call for every affected material so you understand why something stays or goes before we remove it.
Drywall Water Damage Repair
Drywall Water Damage Repair in Austin covers everything from a small water stain behind a washing machine to fully removed and replaced sheetrock after a supply line failure. Wet drywall loses its structural strength and acts like a wick, pulling moisture up to four feet above the visible damage line. Our standard is simple: we cut out every inch that reads above the dry standard on a moisture meter, dry the framing behind it, seal it with antimicrobial, and install fresh board, tape, and texture. Pricing for drywall repair in Austin is usually $300 to $1,000 per affected room, with larger entire-wall replacements running higher.
Flood cuts done right
A flood cut is a horizontal cut across a wall, usually 12 to 18 inches above the water line, to remove soaked drywall and insulation in one clean motion. Done right, it prevents hidden mold and saves you from a bigger tear-out later. We cut straight lines and we remove the wet insulation behind it in the same pass so the stud bays dry completely.
Texture and paint matching
Austin drywall has personality: knockdown, orange peel, hand trowel, and the occasional smooth skim coat in a mid-century remodel. We match the texture and prime the patch so the finished wall blends with the rest of the room. When we’re done, you shouldn’t be able to find the repair without smelling for fresh paint.
Water Damage Inspection
A Water Damage Inspection is a professional walk-through that answers one question: how bad is this, really? Whether you just bought an older home in Central Austin or you’ve noticed a musty smell you can’t place, our inspectors use thermal imaging cameras, penetrating moisture meters, and a dry-standard reference to map exactly where water is, where it came from, and what it’s been doing inside your walls. We don’t charge a separate fee for a standard inspection when it’s part of a repair we’re going to perform. Standalone water damage inspections in Austin run $150 to $350, credited toward repairs if you hire us.
Pre-purchase inspections
Central Austin’s older housing stock hides water damage behind fresh paint and new flooring more often than buyers want to think about. A standard home inspection doesn’t use thermal imaging or moisture probes. Our pre-purchase water damage inspection gives you a written report of any hidden moisture, past leak evidence, or mold conditions so you can buy with your eyes open or walk away informed.
Post-remediation verification
After a water event, the proof you need is a dry standard, not a dry feel. We document moisture readings in every affected area and send you the numbers alongside before-and-after photos by text. You’ll know the wall is dry because the data says so, not because someone touched it and shrugged.
Brands We Service
We run Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and air movers on every drying job because they’re the standard in large commercial loss sites and we don’t believe residential homes deserve less. Their refrigerant and desiccant units pull moisture down to a true dry standard, which is what lets us guarantee the result for 365 days. In Austin’s humidity, anything weaker just makes the air feel dry while the stud bays stay wet.
We also rely on Phoenix low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers for tight spaces and closets where a big Dri-Eaz unit won’t fit. Their smaller footprint means we can dry a bathroom or a cabinet cavity without tearing out more than necessary. And when solid hardwood is involved, Injectidry panels sit on the floor and pull water out through the wood itself, which has saved hundreds of original 1950s oak floors across Austin. Whether you have a modern slab home in Mueller or a pier-and-beam from the 1930s in Travis Heights, we bring the right drying setup for the building, not just any setup for the room. We also serve the Cedar Park area with our Water Damage Repair in Cedar Park.
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AfterSigns You Need a Pro Right Now
- Your ceiling is staining, sagging, or dripping. A visible stain means water is pooling above the drywall. If the ceiling is bowing downward, the drywall is saturated and can collapse at any moment. Call before it drops onto the floor, or worse, onto you.
- Baseboards are swollen or peeling away from the wall. Water follows gravity and then travels sideways along the subfloor. Swelling at the bottom of a wall is evidence that water has already been through the cavity behind it. The longer it sits, the more drywall and insulation you’ll lose.
- You smell something musty but can’t find the source. A persistent musty odor in one room or hallway usually means hidden moisture behind a wall, under a floor, or in a crawl space. Mold is already growing somewhere the air can move but your eyes can’t see.
- Your water bill spiked and nothing changed in your routine. A pipe leaking inside a wall or under a slab can run for weeks before it shows up visually. If the bill went up 30% or more with no explanation, get a leak detection and a water damage inspection before it becomes structural repair.
- Hardwood floors are cupping or planks are separating. Gaps opening between boards, or edges curling upward, mean the wood has taken on significant moisture. Every day that moisture stays in place, the chance of saving the floor drops. We can dry most cupped floors if we get to them within a few days.
Our Process, Step by Step
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We answer and deploy. You call (325) 237-2088, a live person picks up, and we collect the basics: what happened, where the water is, and whether it’s still coming. We assign a background-checked, uniformed technician and send you their live arrival time by text so you can track them like a rideshare.
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Scope, document, and write the price down. The technician walks the affected area, takes moisture readings, and documents damage with photos. You get a written scope of work with a clear dollar figure before any tool touches your home. No surprises at the end, because the number on the scope is the number you pay.
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Extraction and containment. We extract standing water with truck-mounted equipment, set up containment if needed, and place air movers and dehumidifiers using RIA and IICRC protocols. The drying setup is calculated by square footage and water class, not guesswork.
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Monitored drying to a dry standard. We come back daily, check moisture readings with penetrating meters, and adjust the drying plan. You get photo updates by text so you can see the progress without leaving work. We run the equipment until the materials read at or below the dry standard, not just until they feel dry.
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Repair, restore, and verify. Once the structure is dry, we rebuild what was removed: drywall, flooring, trim, paint, texture. Then we do a final moisture verification and send you a before-and-after photo set plus a written 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the repair fails within a year, we return and make it right for free.
How Much Does Water Damage Repair Cost in Austin?
Water damage repair in Austin runs a fairly wide range because no two losses are the same. A small drywall stain behind a bathroom vanity might run $300 to $500 to cut, dry, patch, and repaint. A burst supply line that floods a kitchen and saturates two walls and the subfloor typically lands in the $3,000 to $7,000 range by the time we extract, dry, replace cabinetry and flooring, and refinish. A ceiling collapse from a roof leak usually costs $800 to $2,000 depending on the square footage and whether insulation and texture work are involved. These are ballpark numbers; your written quote is exact and free.
What drives the price is three things: how much water, how long it sat, and what materials got wet. More square footage means more equipment and more days of drying. Water that sat overnight has already wicked into drywall and subfloor, which means more demolition and more replacement. And materials matter: tile and concrete dry cheaply, while carpet pad, particle-board cabinets, and swollen hardwood cost more to replace. The way to avoid overpaying is to hire a contractor who gives you a written scope with a line-item price before the work starts, and who won’t call you a week later asking for more money on an already-priced job. That’s our standard on every single call. Your free estimate includes a full inspection, written scope, and pricing you can see and approve on your phone.
Our Service Area Near Austin
Wendell Restoration Austin works throughout Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties. We regularly run calls to Water Damage Repair in Pflugerville and Water Damage Repair in San Marcos, and we cover Jollyville, Wells Branch, Buda, Manor, Shady Hollow, Lost Creek, Hornsby Bend, Lakeway, and Brushy Creek. Typical response time in Austin proper is under an hour; outlying areas usually see us in 90 minutes or less. You’ll know exactly when we’re arriving because we send the technician’s live location to your phone before they get there.
Serving Austin, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Austin area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions About Water Damage Repair in Austin
Water damage repair is the process of removing water from a structure, drying the affected materials to a dry standard, and rebuilding or replacing anything that can’t be saved. In a typical Austin job, that means extraction, dehumidification, drywall or flooring removal, antimicrobial treatment, and repairs to return the home to its pre-loss condition. The repair side is what happens after the emergency drying is complete.
Drying typically takes three to five days for a standard residential loss in Austin’s climate, depending on how much water and what got wet. Repairs after drying can add anywhere from two days to three weeks depending on scope. We’ll give you a written timeline with your written price so you know the plan from day one. Call (325) 237-2088 for a same-day assessment.
Most Austin homeowners spend between $1,000 and $7,000 for complete water damage repair, with small isolated repairs starting around $300. The cost depends on the square footage affected, how long the water sat, and what materials need replacing. Your quote is free, in writing, and includes a full line-item scope before you approve anything. You’ll see the exact number on your phone and pay from a link when the job is done.
We use Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying equipment on every water damage job in the Austin area, because both brands are the standard in commercial restoration and both pull enough moisture to hit a true dry standard. Our technicians are trained in RIA and IICRC drying protocols, and the equipment runs until the moisture readings say the structure is dry. If you have a preference on equipment, just ask the tech when they arrive.
Water damage doesn’t keep business hours, and neither do we. Our Austin-based dispatch answers live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays and the middle of the night when a freeze has wrecked a pipe. If water is actively spreading or flooding, a technician is on the way the same hour you call. We never route you to a voicemail or a callback queue.
Every repair job includes the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the repair isn’t done right within a year of completion, we come back and make it right for free. We also include a free second visit on any repair that fails. That guarantee is stated on the written scope you sign before work starts, not buried in fine print.
Clear a path to the affected area, move small items and valuables away from the wet zone, and if possible, turn off the water source that caused the leak. Leave wet materials in place, because moving soaked furniture and rugs can spread moisture and make the damage worse. We handle the rest: inspection, documentation, written scope, and a plan to get your home dry.
Schedule Your Water Damage Repair Service in Austin Today
Water damage gets worse by the hour and mold doesn’t wait. If you’ve got a wet ceiling, a burst pipe, cupped floors, or just a musty smell you can’t explain, call (325) 237-2088 right now. A live person answers, 24/7. You’ll get a written price before any work starts, a live arrival time you can track, and before-and-after photos sent to your phone. No obligation, no pressure, no surprises.
Written by Blake Sorensen, Owner at Wendell Restoration Austin, serving Austin and the surrounding communities since 2006.