# Hollywood Living Room Tile and Rug Drying: A Documented Case **Restoration Doctor of South Florida** Phone: (786) 213-9489 · office@restorationdoctors.com Mailing Address: 1200 Brickell Ave Suite 1950 #1007, Miami, FL 33131 Google Business Profile: https://maps.google.com/?cid=1531618495937525034 > 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. ## Facts at a glance - **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. - Photo: A cream rug lifted over an air mover, with dehumidifiers on drip trays and brown paper on the tile. 9:46 a.m., October 25, 2024. - Photo: The cream rug laid flat beside the shag rug, a dehumidifier on a tray behind them. 10:07 a.m., October 25, 2024. ## 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. - Photo: A moisture meter held to a wall at floor level, display turned sideways: 11.5% on the WOOD scale. 9:57 a.m., October 25, 2024. - [What “dry” actually means](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/blog/what-does-dry-mean-drying-goal-florida) ## 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. - [Structural drying and dehumidification](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/services/structural-drying) - [Water damage restoration](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/services/water-damage-restoration) ## Frequently asked questions ### What did the meter read? One frame is legible: 11.5% on the WOOD scale at 9:57 a.m. on October 25, 2024, with the meter held to a wall at floor level. In most other frames the display shows only the letters REL with no number, so they carry no reading. ### Did the floor reach a dry standard? This page does not say so. The file holds no readable final reading, so there is nothing to compare with a standard. ### Was the rug saved? The photos do not show whether a rug was dried in place, cleaned or removed, so this page does not say. ### How long did the drying take? This page gives no drying time. The photo file runs from October 24 to October 30, 2024, but a photo log is not a drying time. ### Do you work in Hollywood? Yes. This case is from Hollywood. 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. Call (786) 213-9489. ### Do you repair floors after drying? No. We extract, dry, dehumidify, contain and document. We do not repair or rebuild. If a floor or baseboard needs replacing after drying, we can refer you to licensed contractors. ## Related pages - [All documented projects](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/projects) - [Structural drying and dehumidification](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/services/structural-drying) - [Water damage restoration in Hollywood, FL](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/locations/hollywood) - [What “dry” actually means](https://restorationdoctorfl.com/blog/what-does-dry-mean-drying-goal-florida) --- Source page: https://restorationdoctorfl.com/projects/hollywood-living-room-tile-and-rug Phone: (786) 213-9489 Last updated: October 2026