Hollywood Living Room Tile and Rug Drying: A Documented Case
A Hollywood project file from October 2024 records a moisture meter held to a wall base at 11.5% on its WOOD scale, at 9:57 a.m. on October 25. Restoration Doctor of South Florida logged the job in 259 photos from October 24 to October 30. This page shows that reading and what the photos show of the work.
5.0 from 610 Google reviews on our Florida listing, as of October 24, 2026.
Showing 4- and 5-star reviews. See all reviews on Google.
Updated October 2026
- Place
- Hollywood, FL (city only; no street or building is published)
- Photo file
- 259 CompanyCam photos, October 24 to October 30, 2024
- Reading shown
- One: 11.5% on the WOOD scale, 9:57 a.m., October 25, 2024
- Phone
- (786) 213-9489
The room and the equipment, October 25, 2024
The file shows a living room with a light tile floor, an area rug, a second shag rug, a sofa and an upright piano. In the first frame below a cream rug is lifted and bent over an air mover, with a second air mover and two dehumidifiers standing on the tile, the dehumidifiers on white drip trays, and brown paper laid on the floor near the piano. In the second frame the cream rug lies flat on the tile beside the shag rug, with a dehumidifier on a tray at the back and an air mover in the foreground.
We describe only what the frames show. The file records no equipment count, so this page gives none.
The one legible reading, October 25, 2024
The crew went over baseboards and wall bases with a moisture meter in several rooms. In most of those frames the display shows only the letters REL and a bar of lit lights, with no number, so they carry no reading. A few frames show a number that is blurred or ghosted. This page publishes a reading only when its digits and its mode can be read with confidence, and one frame qualified.
That frame shows the meter held flat against a wall at floor level. The display is turned sideways in the photo. It reads 11.5% with the scale set to WOOD, at 9:57 a.m. on October 25, 2024. The wall material is not visible and the file holds no reference reading from a known-dry spot, so the number is shown as recorded and compared with nothing.
- 11.5% on the WOOD scale, 9:57 a.m., October 25, 2024.
What the file does not show
The file holds no readable final reading, so this page does not say the floor, the baseboards or the rugs reached a dry standard. It states no drying time: the photos run from October 24 to October 30, 2024, but a photo log is not a drying time. It does not say whether a rug was dried in place, cleaned or removed.
It also gives no cause of the water, no square footage and no count of rooms. Those are not in the record, and a page that supplied them would be guessing.
Why tile floors and rugs are checked together
Our South Florida pages describe slab-on-grade construction, where water travels sideways under tile instead of soaking down into a subfloor. A rug sitting on that tile holds water against the floor and against the baseboard behind it. So the crew checks the rug, the tile joints and the wall bases together, sets equipment to the mapped area and keeps readings so a later visit can be compared with the first.
Common questions
Water, sewage or storm damage right now?
A person answers (786) 213-9489 at any hour. Tell us the address, what is wet and whether the water is still running. A crew can be on-site in as little as 60 minutes in Miami-Dade. Broward dispatches take somewhat longer.*
*Response times vary based on crew availability and demand.