Repairs
Liquid and water damage repair
A spill of any kind — water, coffee, juice. The machine may still be working, which is the most dangerous moment.
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Liquid damage is a race against corrosion, not against the liquid. A laptop that survives the spill can fail a week later as the residue eats through the board. The single most useful thing you can do is hold the power button until it switches off, leave it off, and bring it in the same day. Do not put it in rice and do not try to charge it.
What the price covers
- Full strip-down and assessment, free of charge
- Ultrasonic cleaning of the board to remove residue before it corrodes
- Component-level repair of anything the liquid has already taken out
- An honest verdict on data recovery if the board cannot be saved
Covers MacBook, HP, Dell and Lenovo.
How it works
- 1Bring it in, or message us first — the model number is enough for us to tell you whether we hold the part.
- 2Free diagnosis. You get a firm price before anything is opened, and you are free to walk away with the machine as it came.
- 3We do the work, test it, and hand it back with a 90-day warranty on the part and the labour.
Questions we get asked
- It still works. Do I need to bring it in?
- Yes, and quickly. The damage from a spill is corrosion over days and weeks, not the liquid on the day. Cleaning it now is far cheaper than a board repair later.
- Should I put it in rice?
- No. Rice does nothing about the residue that causes the damage, and the delay is what costs you the board. Switch it off, do not charge it, bring it in.
- Can you get my files back if it cannot be repaired?
- Often, yes. On older machines the drive is a separate part and can usually be read. On newer MacBooks storage is soldered to the board, which makes recovery a board-level job — we will tell you which case you are in.
Not sure this is the fault?
Describe what the machine is doing and we will tell you what it usually means, before you come in. Diagnosis in the shop is free either way.