Liquid damage repair in High River

Drop it at 303 Wentworth Row SW next time you're in Calgary. Free diagnosis, a call with the fault and a flat price, and it's ready for your next trip in.

Network and Wi-Fi work, a desktop that's part of a wired setup, or a small business with several machines. Those genuinely need to be seen in place.

It depends on the fault and whether a part has to come in. You get a realistic timeline with the quote, before you agree to anything.

Yes, and it stays free if you decide not to go ahead.

Unplug the charger, hold the power button until it's fully off, turn it upside down in a tent shape, and leave it off. Don't switch it on to check. Then call or bring it in the same day. Those steps are most of what decides whether it survives.

No. Rice does nothing useful for the inside of a laptop and the grains end up in the ports. Drying isn't the problem anyway; the residue the liquid leaves behind is, and rice doesn't touch that.

Possibly, but often not. Sugary or acidic spills leave a film that keeps corroding for days, and the classic pattern is a machine that works on Tuesday and dies on Saturday. If it was anything other than plain water, it's worth having it opened and cleaned while it's still working.

A lot. Water is the best case. Coffee, tea, pop, juice, wine and beer leave sugar or acid that keeps conducting and corroding. Anything salty is the worst. The quantity matters less than people think; what was in it matters more.

It's the main thing that turns a cleanable spill into a dead board, yes. But a machine that was switched off within seconds and never turned back on usually does well. What kills machines is staying on, or being tested afterwards.

Almost never from a spill. The storage is usually the last thing affected and sits away from where liquid pools. Even when the laptop itself can't be saved, getting your files off it is a normal job. The one exception is a Mac or older Surface with storage soldered to a dead board.

Usually not. The keyboard sits directly under the spill and takes the worst of it; on a lot of machines it's a replaceable part. We open it up to make sure nothing reached the board before quoting a keyboard.

No. Every minute of current through a board that has residue on it does more damage. Leave it off until it's been opened and cleaned. If you need to work, use something else for a day.

A proper assessment means a full disassembly and clean before any power goes near it, so it isn't a while-you-wait job. You get a call with what we found and a flat price, or a straight answer that it isn't worth it.

It depends entirely on what failed, which is why the assessment is free and comes first. You get one flat quote for exactly the parts that need replacing, before any work. If it can't be fixed, there's no repair fee.

Depends on the machine and what the liquid reached. A keyboard on an otherwise good laptop is worth it. A board on an old budget machine usually isn't, and you'll be told that with the reasoning rather than after the invoice. Either way, your files come off it.

Two things. Modern MacBooks have the battery adhered in and the storage soldered to the board, so a board that dies can take the files with it, which is why a backup matters more on a Mac. And the keyboard is part of the top case on many models, which changes what a keyboard repair involves.

Same advice, better odds. Clean water and cold are far kinder than a warm coffee. Power it off, dry the outside, let it come up to room temperature closed, and don't switch it on until it's been checked.

Bring it in, or arrange a pickup. A spill needs the bench: full disassembly, proper cleaning, and powering up under observation. The shop at 303 Wentworth Row SW is open seven days.

Because the liquid isn't the problem after the first hour; what it left behind is. Residue keeps corroding contacts every day the machine sits, so a week of drying is a week of damage. Same day is best. Tomorrow is fine. Next week is worse.