When looking at your damaged floors you will need to assess the situation. While some water might be visible, other water may have seeped in the cracks of the floor and making the flooring do things that cannot be repaired but will need to be replaced. Look at the floor for:
Staining-Do you see any water staining that has gotten deep into the wood. There are a couple of different situations here. There are two types of stains, white stains, and black stains. While white stains can be taken care of with the use of various oils, black stains mean that the flooring has been damaged to the point of no return. You cannot get black stains out of the wood. So, the wood will have to be replaced.
The amount of water on the floor can be a determining factor. If you have said an ice cube fall you probably won’t see the level of damage that you would with a burst pipe. Water from a fish tank could become various sizes as a tank to a fishbowl. The lower the amount of water the easier it is to contain.
In an ideal situation, you want to get the water cleaned up right away. However, sometimes a pipe will burst and we don’t know it. Maybe you were on vacation or something. If you had standing water on your wood floors for any period of time, you will probably see the damage.
