Water Damage Repair London

Liquid damage is the one fault where what you do in the first half hour matters more than anything we do afterwards. Shut the machine down properly if you can, or hold the power button until it goes off if you cannot. Unplug the charger. Do not press the power button again to see whether it still works — that is the single most common way a repairable spill becomes a dead logic board, because powering a wet board is what shorts it. Leave it closed and tented upside down so liquid drains away from the board rather than into it, and call us.

Ignore the rice. It does nothing useful, it puts starch and dust into the ports, and the days spent waiting for it to "dry out" are days corrosion is spreading across the board. Liquid damage is not really a drying problem — it is a corrosion problem. Water carries salts and sugars that keep eating into the board long after the surface feels dry, which is why a laptop that worked fine for two days after a spill can die on the third.

Because the clock matters, we treat spills as emergencies and will always try to see you the same day anywhere in Greater London. Proper liquid work means the board comes out, gets inspected under a microscope, and is cleaned in an ultrasonic bath rather than wiped — corrosion sits in places you cannot reach with a cloth. That needs our workshop, so this is one repair we will normally take away, and we tell you that upfront rather than after we arrive.

We will always be honest with you about the odds, because they vary enormously. A splash of water caught in the first hour is very often a full recovery. A sugary drink or alcohol left for a week is a different conversation, and sometimes the right answer is to stop paying for the repair and recover your data instead. The diagnosis is free, we quote before any work, and if we cannot fix it you pay nothing.