There is no upstairs bathroom to blame on most Georgetown ceiling calls, which makes ceiling water damage repair here an attic problem wearing a ceiling as its symptom. With no second floor and no floor system overhead, the source list is short: an attic air handler and its condensate line, a supply or drain run crossing the attic, or water that got past the roof. Each of those is a different job, so the first thing we settle is which one you have.
The next question is access, and it decides how much ceiling comes down. Whether we can work the wet area from the attic side depends on the headroom over that part of the plan, and in these houses the wet spot often sits right where the roof gets low over an exterior wall, where nobody can crawl and no equipment fits. That area gets opened from the room instead. Around the Square there is a further wrinkle: some of those ceilings are plaster on wood lath rather than drywall. Wet plaster gets heavy, the keys behind the lath break, and it releases in sheets rather than in a neat panel, so we tell you up front which material yours is and what putting it back involves.
The order the work has to run in
Source stopped first, then weight. Anything sagging gets drained deliberately, low and small, instead of dropping on its own schedule. Then the insulation over the wet run comes off the ceiling board, because soaked blown-in keeps that board wet from above no matter how much air is moving in the room, and the framing gets air with a dehumidifier holding the space around it. We read the same points daily until they match a section of attic the water never reached. The ceiling closes after that, textured to the plane and sealed so the old ring cannot come back through.
- Source narrowed to the condensate line, an attic run, or the roof, then stopped
- Loaded ceilings drained on purpose before they let go
- Insulation off the board over the wet run, framing dried on daily readings
- Plaster and drywall ceilings rebuilt for what they actually are

We dry and rebuild as one job, so there is nobody else to schedule once the readings settle. Call (512) 271-5099 with the room, the ceiling material if you know it, and how long the house has looked like that.










