Finished-Basement Water Loss in McLean, VA, October 2025: A Documented Case
Restoration Doctor worked a water loss in a finished basement in McLean, VA in October 2025, logged in 431 CompanyCam photos. Room-air humidity in two rooms fell from 71.5% and 68.2% on October 24 to 36.3% and 33.6% on October 26, then read 41.8% and 44.2% on October 28.
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Updated October 2026
What the record shows
This is a water loss in a finished basement in McLean, VA, in October 2025. The job is logged in 431 CompanyCam photos taken on five days, October 24 to October 28, 2025. The photos show a finished lower level with a carpeted library, a gym area with rubber mats, a mechanical room with water heaters and pipes, and a hallway with a stone accent wall and banquette seating. Plastic sheeting and rubber mats protect parts of the floor, baseboards are cut out at the wall base, and air movers and dehumidifiers run in several rooms.
We do not publish the street, the customer or the cause. The record does not state where the water came from, so this page states none.
At a glance
- Service area
- McLean, VA, in Fairfax County
- Services
- Water extraction, structural drying and humidity monitoring in a finished basement
- Hours
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (emergency response)
- Phone
- 1-888-293-5663 (1-888-29-FLOOD)
- License
- Virginia DPOR Class A contractor license 2705191604, issued to VA Water Damage LLC dba Restoration Doctor
- Standards
- IICRC-certified · S500 / S520-aligned
Room-air humidity in the same two rooms
Each value is percent relative humidity, read from one photo of a handheld meter held in the room, in humidity mode, with the time of the photo. The same display shows the air temperature, which is in the photo captions.
| Date, 2025 | Mechanical room | Wine-room hallway |
|---|---|---|
| October 24 | 71.5% (7:21 pm) | 68.2% (7:22 pm) |
| October 25 | 49.7% (11:27 am) | 49.6% (11:26 am) |
| October 26 | 36.3% (11:16 am) | 33.6% (11:17 am) |
| October 28 | 41.8% (10:45 am) | 44.2% (10:44 am) |
There is no row for October 27: no publishable reading from these two rooms is on file for that day. Nothing is filled in between the rows.
Humidity rose again on the last day
Both rooms read lower on October 26 than on October 24 and October 25. Both read higher on October 28 than on October 26: 41.8% against 36.3% in the mechanical room, and 44.2% against 33.6% in the hallway. The record holds no note saying why, and this page offers no explanation. The readings are published as taken.
They are readings of the air in the room, not of the moisture in any material, so they do not show that a wet material was dry. We publish the series, including the rise, so a reader can see what a real drying file looks like instead of a smooth curve.
Equipment, the floor and what the record does not hold
The equipment form photographed on October 28, 2025, the last day, lists as removed 15 air movers (listed as fans on the form), 6 dehumidifiers, 1 HEPA unit and 3 OmniSense sensors. The forms carry the customer's name and address, so we do not show them.
The dining and bar floor in the photos is a wood-look plank, not hardwood, and no meter reading was taken on it, so this case states no floor reading and no floor result. The meter's material-moisture modes read on a relative scale, not as a percent moisture content of a named material, so this page publishes none of those values.
The record does not hold a final result, a drying time, a cause or a dry standard for the wet materials, and nothing on this page implies one.
Why publish room-air readings from one job
A room-air humidity reading is the kind of number a reader can check against a photo: a meter, a named room and a time. A complete drying record also holds material readings, equipment logs and daily photos, and those parts are not published here. This page gives the part that can be shown without the customer's details, and it says plainly which parts are missing.
Eight meter photos from the McLean job
McLean, VA, October 2025. The job record holds 431 CompanyCam photos. These eight show a handheld meter held in the same two rooms on four of the five days. We do not publish the street, the customer or the equipment forms.
Frequently asked questions
What was the humidity in the McLean basement on the first and last days?
On October 24, 2025 the mechanical room read 71.5% and the wine-room hallway 68.2%. On October 28 they read 41.8% and 44.2%. Both rooms read lowest on October 26, at 36.3% and 33.6%.
Did the humidity keep falling?
No. It fell through October 26 and was higher in both rooms on October 28. The record does not say why, and we do not explain it here.
How much equipment was on site?
The equipment form of October 28, 2025 lists 15 air movers, 6 dehumidifiers, 1 HEPA unit and 3 OmniSense sensors as removed. We do not show the form because it carries the customer's name and address.
Was the floor hardwood?
No. The dining and bar floor is a wood-look plank, and no meter reading was taken on it, so this case states no floor reading and no floor result.
Does this case say the basement ended up dry?
No. It reports room-air humidity in two rooms and the equipment on site. It does not state a final result, a drying time or a dry standard for any wet material.
Where do the numbers come from?
Each value is read from one CompanyCam photo of a handheld meter, with the date and time the photo was taken. Eight of those photos are on this page, and every value was read twice before it was kept.
Related pages
- Documented projectsNorthern Virginia project files, each logged in CompanyCam.
- Flooded basement cleanupWhat a flooded-basement job includes and where it stops.
- Structural drying and dehumidificationHow a drying plan is built, monitored and signed off.
- Moisture detectionHow wet materials are found and how readings differ.
- McLeanWater damage restoration in McLean, VA.
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