Ceiling Water Damage Repair Denver: Stained and Sagging Ceilings Rebuilt

Ceiling damage often starts right above the room: the roof, a supply or drain line, a bathroom or an appliance. Hail storms hit the Front Range in spring and summer, and a damaged roof can show up first as a stain on a top-floor ceiling. A leaking toilet, tub or shower leaves a ring on the ceiling below, and so can a washing machine hose upstairs.

Older brick houses, like the 1900 to 1940 homes that make up most of Washington Park, can have aging pipes and roofs above their ceilings. In Capitol Hill, with its mix of historic mansions, apartments and condos, the leak may start in a neighbor's unit.

The leak gets fixed before the new ceiling goes up. When the source is the roof, ARC Restoration also offers roof leak repair.

A wet ceiling carries two risks: the weight of the water and the wiring inside it. A sagging section can come down without warning, so move people, pets and furniture out from under it and keep the room closed.

If water reaches a light fixture, turn that circuit off at the breaker panel and leave the wall switch alone. A licensed electrician checks the fixture and its wiring, and we repair the ceiling around it. Those first steps apply in a home near the Elitch Theatre on the edge of Highland and in a shop on Tennyson Street in Berkeley. For a sagging or dripping ceiling, call us at any hour: we are open 24 hours every day.

From our base on S Kalamath St, we follow the same order for a bedroom ceiling in Congress Park and a living room in Cherry Creek North:

1. Map the moisture. Moisture mapping and thermal imaging show how far the water spread above the ceiling, often past the stain.
2. Remove what cannot be saved. Wet drywall or plaster and soaked insulation come down, and we haul them away.
3. Dry the cavity. Structural drying continues until moisture meters show the joists and cavity are dry.
4. Rebuild. We hang new drywall on the joists or repair the plaster, and replace insulation where it came out.
5. Finish. We tape and coat the seams, match the texture, seal with a stain-blocking primer and paint the whole ceiling for an even color.

For water stained ceiling repair, that primer matters: paint alone over a water stain tends to let it bleed back through.

Many Denver homes were built before 1978, the cutoff year in the EPA's lead paint rule. Baker has hundreds of 19th-century brick houses, and Sloan's Lake has brick bungalows from the 1920s. Under the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting program, a firm paid to disturb paint in a pre-1978 home must be certified, unless the job is a minor repair of six square feet of paint or less per room. ARC Restoration holds EPA Lead-Safe Certification.

Denver's interior remodel guidance for single-family homes and duplexes lists small drywall patches as work that may not need a permit, while larger ceiling work or a structural change can. At our free inspection we assess the damage, so you know the scope early. The city has the final say on permits.

Ceiling repair is the rebuild step of our water and fire restoration work, so one company handles the drying and the new ceiling. We schedule the repair around your home or business, from houses in Sunnyside and Park Hill to buildings along Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard.

• Certified team. We hold IICRC Certification and EPA Lead-Safe Certification.
• Free inspections. We assess the damage and determine the best course of action before work starts.
• Insurance support. We document the water damage for your claim and work directly with your insurer to agree on costs.
• 4.9 stars on Google from more than 70 reviews. One customer described the people who came to the house as "courteous, professional, and reliable."
• In business since March 2020.

Call ARC Restoration at (720) 799-2434 to book a free inspection of your ceiling.