Water Damage Repair Vancouver

Usually, yes. Water damage happens when liquid gets inside the device — a pool, a sink, a toilet, a spilled drink, or sweat and rain at the gym or on a bike. What matters most is how quickly it gets looked at, because corrosion carries on spreading inside a closed phone. Power it off, do not charge it, and bring it to any of our stores; we will assess it free and tell you what is recoverable.

Sometimes it is visible — small bubbles under the screen, discolouration around the charging port, or green-white corrosion at the connectors. Often it is not visible from the outside at all. The quickest check is the LCI, the Liquid Contact Indicator: a small strip that turns from white or silver to red once liquid reaches it. On recent iPhones it sits in the SIM tray slot; on the 4s and earlier it was near the headphone jack or charging port.

Most of the time. Around 80% of water damaged iPhones and iPads can be repaired — the board is cleaned of corrosion and the components the liquid destroyed are replaced. The cases that genuinely cannot be saved are usually the ones that were charged and used wet for days before anyone looked at them.

Almost always, compared with buying a replacement. A corrosion clean plus a component or two costs a fraction of a new device, and your data stays where it is rather than needing to be migrated. We will tell you honestly at the assessment if the damage has gone far enough that it is not worth it.

You cannot tell from the outside, and a red LCI does not mean permanent damage — it only means liquid got in. That is the reason Apple declines the repair, not a verdict on the board. The real answer comes from opening the device and seeing how far the liquid travelled and what it has already corroded, which is what the free assessment is for.

Not necessarily, and this is the case most often written off elsewhere. A phone that will not power on after a spill usually has a fault on a power rail or a connector rather than a dead board. Leave it off, do not try to charge it, and bring it in.

No. Rice does not draw liquid out of a sealed phone — it absorbs a little ambient humidity while the corrosion inside carries on, and it costs you the hours that matter most. Heat is worse: a hairdryer or a radiator drives moisture deeper and can warp adhesive and screens. Power it off and get it looked at instead.

It depends on how far the liquid travelled and what it reached, which is genuinely not knowable until the device is open — so we do not publish a figure we would have to take back. The assessment is free, and you get the exact price and the timeline before any work starts.

We assess it the same day you bring it in. How long the repair itself takes depends on how much corrosion there is and whether any components need replacing, so we give you the timeline at the counter once we can see inside — along with the price.

Yes. A spilled drink on a laptop is the same problem with more board to cross, and it goes to the same bench with the same free assessment first.