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Our work

Every photo on this page is our van, our equipment, our owner.

No stock crews and no borrowed trucks. This is Ray inside Puget Sound homes — meters in hand, dehumidifiers running, floors saved.

  • On site in an hour or less
  • IICRC certified crews
  • Based in Alderwood Manor, Washington
  • We bill your insurance direct
Ray extracting water from a flooded basement

20+

Years restoring Puget Sound homes

< 60 min

Typical arrival, day or night

65+

Communities covered

24/7

Owner-answered phone line

Ray extracting standing water from hardwood floors in a Puget Sound living room
Extraction
Ray unloading a commercial air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van
Arrival
Moisture meter reading of 17.3 taken under a water stained ceiling
Moisture reading
Ray positioning an LGR 7000XLi dehumidifier in a gutted room with wet hardwood
Dry-out
Technician kneeling with a flashlight and moisture meter checking an open wall cavity
Inspection
Technician scanning a mold stained wall and ceiling with a meter
Mold
Ray carrying an air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van into a garage
First minutes
Ray setting a DriZair 1200 dehumidifier on a wet hardwood floor with air movers running
Drying plan

On camera

Watch the work instead of reading about it.

Real job · 0:18

Extraction, up close

Black water pulled straight off the subfloor at the toilet flange — the wand doesn't stop until the meter reads dry.

Real job · 0:05

What was behind the drywall

Opened one wall, found this. Mold starts in days — this is why we check every cavity before anything gets closed up.

Partially collapsed living room ceiling with insulation and drywall piled on the sofa and ottomanBefore
Restored living room with new ceiling, paint and hardwood floorAfter

Featured job · Bothell, January 2024

Water ran for 11 days. We were there the same evening.

A catastrophic freeze caused extensive water damage throughout a Bothell home while the owner was out of the country. The heat had been turned down, allowing the home's piping to freeze and rupture. Water ran for 11 days before a neighbor noticed it flowing out of the roof soffits.

11 days
Water ran before a neighbor noticed
Same evening
On site the night of the call (Jan 19)
93%
Relative humidity in the living room

The Bothell job · all 28 photos

Every photo from one of our biggest recoveries.

Collapsed ceiling, wet TGI beams, the split sprinkler pipe, the readings and the finished rooms — tap any photo to see it full size.

Living room and dining area — below ground zero

Directly under the break. The living room ceiling partially collapsed, dropping drywall and blown-in insulation onto the furniture; the dining table took the water through the ceiling.

9 photos

The great room

Wet TGI floor beams, hardwood removed, drywall flood-cut and air movers running — then rebuilt start to finish.

4 photos

Second-floor family room — below the master bathroom

Carpet saturated from above; dehumidifiers ran until readings came back dry, and the room was put back together.

5 photos

The culprits — a broken 1.25-inch fire-sprinkler pipe and three shower mixers

Pulling the attic insulation exposed the split sprinkler line above the landing. Pressure testing after the repair found freeze damage at all three shower/tub mixing valves.

5 photos

Moisture readings

Readings decided what came out and what could be dried in place — and when the job was actually dry.

3 photos

Crawlspace

Water that runs for 11 days finds the crawlspace too. Insulation and vapor barrier checked, air movers set.

2 photos

Before & after

Two houses Ray was called into on their worst day.

Same homes, a week or two apart. No staging, no stock photography — just what a documented drying plan and a crew that shows up in the first hour actually produces.

Before and after comparison of a water damaged living room restored by Absolute Water Damage

7 days

water out to finished room

Lynnwood · supply line failure

Two inches of water on the floor Friday night. Family back in the room the next week.

A second-floor supply line let go while the homeowners were at dinner. Water came down through the ceiling and across the entire living room. When Ray walked in, the carpet was floating and the baseboards were already wicking.

  • Truck-mount extraction started within 40 minutes of the call
  • Ceiling opened only where readings demanded it — the rest dried in place
  • Six air movers and two LGR dehumidifiers on a documented drying plan
  • Daily moisture logs sent straight to the adjuster; claim approved without a fight
Before and after comparison of a mold damaged basement remediated by Absolute Water Damage

0

square feet unnecessarily gutted

Everett · long-term basement seepage

The basement nobody wanted to go into — cleared, sealed and handed back.

This one had been wet for months before anyone called. Microbial growth had spread across the framing and the smell hit you at the top of the stairs. Two other companies quoted a full gut.

  • Containment and negative air before a single piece of material moved
  • Antimicrobial treatment on every square inch of salvageable framing
  • Non-salvageable porous material bagged and disposed of to IICRC standard
  • Air quality and odor verified before the containment came down

On the job

Real crews, real equipment, real Puget Sound homes.

Every photo below is our own team on an actual loss — not stock footage of somebody else's trucks.

Ray extracting standing water from hardwood floors in a Puget Sound living room
Extraction
Truck-mount extraction on wet hardwood before the boards cup
Ray unloading a commercial air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van
Arrival
The van shows up loaded — air movers, dehus, hose and hand tools
Moisture meter reading of 17.3 taken under a water stained ceiling
Moisture reading
17.3 on the meter. That ceiling is not dry, whatever it looks like
Ray positioning an LGR 7000XLi dehumidifier in a gutted room with wet hardwood
Dry-out
LGR dehumidifiers sized to the room, not guessed at
Technician kneeling with a flashlight and moisture meter checking an open wall cavity
Inspection
Every stud bay checked before anything gets closed back up
Technician scanning a mold stained wall and ceiling with a meter
Mold
Mold can start in five days. We find it while it is still small
Ray carrying an air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van into a garage
First minutes
Equipment off the van and through your door in the first few minutes
Ray setting a DriZair 1200 dehumidifier on a wet hardwood floor with air movers running
Drying plan
DriZair 1200 set on wet hardwood, air movers already pushing
Ray documenting a stained ceiling on a tablet next to containment sheeting
Documentation
Ceiling stains photographed and logged on the tablet as we go
Ray pulling wet baseboard trim away from a water damaged wall
Controlled demo
Baseboard comes off so the wall cavity can actually dry
Ray taking a 15.6 moisture reading on a hallway wall with a dehumidifier behind him
Daily readings
15.6 in the hallway — equipment stays until that number drops
Ray extracting standing water from a flooded basement floor with a carpet wand
Basement flood
Flooded basement in Alderwood Manor — wand down, VELO PRO dehu already staged
Ray inspecting a rotted sink cabinet base with a flashlight and moisture meter
Hidden leak
Slow supply-line leak under the sink. Found it before the subfloor was gone
Ray rolling a VELO PRO dehumidifier out of the Absolute Water Damage van
Rapid response
The van is the warehouse — dehus come off it the minute Ray parks
Ray cutting out water damaged ceiling drywall over a protected bedroom
Ceiling repair
Ceiling opened above a bedroom, furniture covered before the first cut
Ray logging drying readings on a tablet beside an LGR 7000 dehumidifier
Insurance file
Flood-cut wall, LGR 7000 running, every reading logged for your adjuster
Before and after of a water damaged living room restored by Absolute Water Damage
Before / after
Living room: standing water to move-in ready
Before and after of a mold damaged basement remediated by Absolute Water Damage
Before / after
Basement: microbial growth removed and rebuilt clean

Real jobs, real photos

Seven moments from actual Absolute Water Damage calls.

Not stock photography. These are our trucks, our equipment and Ray on site — with the story of what was happening in the minutes around each photo.

Ray holding a moisture meter reading 17.3 beneath a water stained ceiling
Mold staining on a wall and ceiling being scanned with a meter

5 days

before mold starts

The reading nobody wanted to take

“17.3. That ceiling is still soaking.”

This is the moment most homeowners never see. The leak had stopped days earlier and the stain looked dry to the touch — so the family assumed the worst was over. Ray put a meter on it anyway.

Seventeen point three. Wet enough that mold was already on the clock. We opened a small inspection cut, dried the cavity in place and the drywall never had to come down. That is what a two-minute reading buys you.

Technician sealing a containment barrier with a microbial hazard sign
Technician checking an opened wall cavity with a flashlight and moisture meter

IICRC

certified protocol

Behind the plastic

The barrier that keeps one bad room from becoming five.

Category 3 water — sewage, black water, anything that has touched contamination — does not get treated like a spill. It gets isolated. Poly, tape, negative air, and a sign on the zipper.

Every tool that goes in gets decontaminated on the way out. Porous materials that cannot be saved are bagged and disposed of properly. The rest of your house never knows it happened.

Ray lifting an air mover out of the Absolute Water Damage van in a driveway
Ray rolling a dehumidifier through a doorway with the company van outside

< 60 min

typical arrival

Why the van matters

Equipment on the truck beats equipment on order.

There is a version of this business where a subcontractor is dispatched, an estimate is written, and the drying starts on day three. This is not that business.

Air movers, LGR dehumidifiers, truck-mount extraction, submersible pumps, infrared cameras and moisture meters ride in the van. Ray unloads it himself, usually within the hour, and the drying plan starts the same visit.

Ray running an extraction wand across flooded hardwood flooring
Ray positioning an LGR 7000XLi dehumidifier in a room with wet hardwood

5–7 days

typical structural dry-out

Dry in place, whenever we can

The cheapest restoration is the demolition you never do.

Hardwood that gets water pulled off it in the first hours often stays. Hardwood that sits for two days cups, crowns and gets replaced. Speed is the whole game.

We extract until the wand comes back dry, set air movement across the grain, pull the humidity down with LGRs and take readings every day until every material hits dry standard — usually five to seven days.

Technician extracting water from a wet hardwood floor late at night
Technician pushing a dehumidifier through a doorway with the branded van outside

24/7

owner answers, holidays too

The call at 11:47 pm

“Ray, the whole downstairs is under water.”

Nobody plans a water loss for a convenient hour. This photo was taken close to midnight, and the homeowner had been standing in her hallway for twenty minutes with a bath towel and no idea what to do next.

Ray talked her through shutting the main off while he was still driving. Extraction was running before 1 am. There is no answering service in the middle of that story — just the owner’s cell phone and a loaded van.

Technician inspecting exposed wet wall framing with a flashlight and moisture meter
Technician securing a containment barrier with blue tape

1 cut

instead of a full gut

What the flashlight found

The wet bay that would have cost them twice.

The visible damage was one small patch of drywall. The meter said otherwise. Ray pulled a single inspection cut and put a light into the cavity — the sill plate two bays over was saturated.

Had that wall been closed up on faith, the homeowner would have been looking at mold and a second claim by spring. Instead it dried in nine days and the adjuster had a photo of every reading.

Field notes

A loss, hour by hour, in Ray's own words.

Four photographs from real Alderwood Manor, Washington area jobs, and what was happening in the minutes around each one.

Technician extracting water from a wet hardwood floor with a commercial machine
Hour one

The wand does not stop until it comes back dry.

Most of the water you can save a floor from is gone in the first two hours. This is why Ray loads the extractor before he even knows what he is walking into — every minute of pumping is a board you do not replace.

Technician inspecting exposed wall framing with a flashlight and moisture meter
Hour three

Every stud bay gets a light and a meter on it.

Water travels sideways through framing and sill plates. If a bay reads wet and gets closed anyway, you are paying for the same repair twice next spring. So we check them one at a time and write the numbers down.

Technician securing a microbial hazard containment barrier with blue tape
Contaminated losses

Plastic, tape, negative air, and a sign on the zipper.

Sewage and mold work is isolated before anything else happens. Tools get decontaminated on the way out. Your kitchen, your kids' rooms and your HVAC never meet what is behind that barrier.

Technician pushing a commercial dehumidifier through a doorway with the branded van outside
Every job

That is our van in your driveway — not a franchise sub.

Family owned for 20+ years. When you call the number on this page, the man who shows up is the man who answered. He unloads his own dehumidifiers and he is there when the readings hit dry standard.

Talk to Ray now

Every call goes to the owner's cell

Neighbors who called Ray

The reviews all say the same thing: he showed up.

5.0

Rated by Puget Sound homeowners

“Had a tree fall on my roof, nightmare situation but Ray helped out more than Allstate ever did!”
Daniel Grabstein

Daniel Grabstein

Seattle, WA · Google

“Our water heater let go at 11pm and Ray answered his own phone on the second ring. Crew was in the driveway inside the hour with extractors. He walked me through the insurance claim line by line and we were dry in five days.”
Megan Ellsworth

Megan Ellsworth

Lynnwood, WA · Google

“Supply line burst under the kitchen sink while we were out of town. Ray found water two rooms away with an infrared camera that nobody else would have caught. Saved us from a mold problem, no question.”
Marcus Whitfield

Marcus Whitfield

Bothell, WA · Google

“What I appreciated most was how little they tore out. Other companies wanted to gut the whole basement. Ray dried it in place, documented every reading, and the insurance adjuster accepted it without a fight.”
Grace Tanaka

Grace Tanaka

Mill Creek, WA · Google

“Sewage backup in the downstairs bath — awful. They showed up in full gear, sealed it off, sanitized everything and the smell was completely gone. Ray checked in on us for a week after. Genuinely kind people.”
Alicia Moreno

Alicia Moreno

Edmonds, WA · Google

“Christmas morning, dishwasher line split, water under the whole kitchen floor. Ray picked up on a holiday and was here in 45 minutes. Who does that? He never once talked about money until the claim was already approved.”
Brett Callahan

Brett Callahan

Everett, WA · Google

“Our crawl space had standing water for who knows how long. Ray crawled under there himself with a light, showed me photos of every joist, and explained what was salvageable. Zero pressure, zero upselling.”
Linda Nakamura

Linda Nakamura

Shoreline, WA · Google

“Upstairs toilet overflowed into the ceiling below. They had containment up in twenty minutes and the drying equipment running before I finished making coffee. Daily readings emailed to me and to the adjuster.”
Diego Ramirez

Diego Ramirez

Kirkland, WA · Google

“I am 71 and I was panicking. Ray talked me down on the phone, told me exactly which valve to shut off, and stayed on the line until he pulled into the driveway. He treated my house like it was his mother's.”
Carol Whitby

Carol Whitby

Mountlake Terrace, WA · Google

“Small kitchen fire, smoke through the entire house. The odor was gone completely — not covered up, gone. They cleaned the ducts, sealed what needed sealing, and coordinated the rebuild with a contractor they trusted.”
Renée Adjei

Renée Adjei

Bellevue, WA · Google

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Straight answers

The questions homeowners ask at 2am.

If yours isn't here, just call. Ray would rather talk you through it than have you guess.

(206) 856-3173

No — call us right away at (206) 856-3173. You have full rights to stop the progression of water without waiting for an estimate. An estimate is only required by insurance for putting the house back together. Delaying can actually work against your claim: carriers can find a homeowner negligent for knowing about water and not acting.

In most cases we are on site within an hour, anywhere in the greater Puget Sound area. We answer 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year.

Most sudden-loss water damage is covered. We use Xactimate — the same pricing structure the insurance industry uses — and in most cases we bill your carrier directly instead of you. If you have no insurance, we will work with you.

Most water damage situations dry within five to seven days, often faster. We monitor moisture daily and document readings so nothing gets closed up while it is still wet.

Only what genuinely has to come out. We specialize in minimal-disruption drying techniques and dry in place wherever the materials allow. Category 3 (contaminated) losses are different — porous materials there must be removed for health reasons.

That is the single biggest mistake homeowners make. Water travels, and most water damage is not visible to the naked eye. We bring infrared cameras and moisture detection equipment to find it behind surfaces before it becomes mold.

Mold can begin growing in as little as five days after a water loss. If growth has already started, it needs professional remediation — we will assess it and tell you honestly what you are dealing with.

We work with several trusted general contractors across the area and can recommend the right one for your situation once the structure is dry.

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