LA Home Restorations does water damage restoration for Woodland Hills homes, on the valley floor and up against the Santa Monica Mountains, and restores them after fire and smoke too. We look at where the water came in, dry the ceilings, walls and floors and repair or rebuild what the damage took.
On 6 September 2020 the official weather station at Pierce College in Woodland Hills recorded 121 degrees, the hottest temperature measured at an official station in Los Angeles County. In that kind of heat an air conditioner runs all afternoon and pulls water out of the air into a drain pan and a condensate line. When the unit sits in the attic, a clogged line or a cracked pan drips onto the ceiling below, and the first sign is often a brown stain, a sagging spot or a drip at a light fixture.
If you see one, turn the air conditioner off at the thermostat, keep away from a sagging ceiling and do not turn on lights or fans under it. Water heaters work hard here too, and one in a garage or a closet can soak the wall or the slab with a slow leak before anyone looks.