5 Tips to Repair Ceiling Damage at Home

Have you encountered with situation of water leakage from ceiling of your home? If yes, you are supposed to handle it immediately without getting any further delay. There are many relevant things that you need to acknowledge and understand before starting treatment of fixing damaged ceiling. Firstly, you will have to find out the right source of water leakage from ceiling and try to fix it. Once you get exact source of water leakage, you need to drain the collected water on ceiling and follow the right steps to replace the damage ceiling or repair it through possible ways.

Here are some necessary steps that you should follow for ceiling leak repair process to be done successfully.

1. Drain the Leakage

At the very first step, you are supposed to identify the exact source of leakage on ceiling. Try to scratch the wet ceiling and find out the wetness strength on the ceiling and its range too. If you unable to find the origin point of water leakage, you should check for drywall panels that are sagging and breakdown point from scratch. You need to mark the whole ceiling area for identification too.

2. Put the bucket or Cloths or Traps Under the Water Leakage From Ceiling

To protect your floor from wetness of leaked water from damaged ceiling, you need to put bucket or clothes under the water leakage from ceiling and collect the water in it. However, it will keep the floor dry and protect it from any decay.

3. Scratch the Ceiling with Screwdriver or any Pointed thing to Drain Water From Ceiling

It is significant to first drain out whole water from damaged ceiling by scratching it from screwdriver and let the whole water drain out from ceiling completely. It will let whole water to drain from ceiling and will stop affecting it from further wetness too. All in all, the ultimate aim is to restrict increasing water leakage further that may cause collapse of whole ceiling as well. Also, by creating a hole in the ceiling, you can find out exact source of water leakage from ceiling that can be treated further effectively.

4. Repair Leakage Source to Prevent Further Damage of Ceiling

Once you find out the right source of water leakage, you need to prepare for ceiling leak repair process ahead. In case, the ceiling is in condition to replace completely, you may go for it, otherwise do the needful for repairing process of it. You should first stop leakage of water from the source or burst pipe or cracked area on the ceiling and scratch the whole wet plaster till you get the dry area of ceiling. Try to scratch whole wet ceiling on the ceiling and then start repairing process.

You can do ceiling leakage repair by filling it from useful fillers available in the market. Else, you may call to the expert to repair affected area of ceiling with quality.

5. Remove the Whole Damaged Area on Ceiling

You may also finally cut down the whole area on ceiling which is affected by wetness or replace it from new one. Try to cut the affected area on ceiling in square shape and measure its length and width too. You need to fill the removed space on ceiling by labeling new piece of ceiling and join it adequately. If you not able to perform all the things, you should go for the professionals' hand to execute the whole plan.

Thus, above are some necessary steps to try water leakage from ceiling at home and protect it from further damage and leakage of air of air-conditioner in the room from leaked area.