Ceiling water damage in Joliet shows up as a brown ring, a sagging patch of drywall, or water dripping from a light fixture. The source is almost always above it: a bathroom, a roof leak, an ice dam, or a supply line in the ceiling cavity.
A sagging ceiling is holding water. It can drop without warning, and wet drywall is heavy. If it's bulging, keep people out of the room, turn off power to any fixture in that area, and put a bucket under it. Don't poke it unless you're ready for the water to come down all at once.
Ice dams are a winter cause here. Heat escaping into the attic melts snow on the roof, it refreezes at the colder eaves, and meltwater backs up under the shingles. The stain often appears along an exterior wall near the ceiling line.
Our crew opens the ceiling where needed to drain it, pulls wet insulation from above, and dries the joists and drywall. Plaster ceilings in older Joliet homes behave differently. Plaster on wood lath can hold water for a long time and may need more testing before we decide what stays.
For bathroom leaks from above see toilet overflow cleanup. For pipe breaks see burst pipe cleanup. Call (815) 595-0220.
