What water damage actually costs.
Twelve pages for property owners, housing associations and insurers on the leaks nobody sees until the cabinet floor has gone.
Elementric's whitepaper on water damage. Twelve pages on why kitchen leaks are the ones that get missed, what they cost to put right, and what a mat under the sink changes.
It is dated 2024, so it predates Säker Vatteninstallation 2026:1 and does not cover the new kitchen rule. Everything else in it still stands.
What is inside
- Why a slow drip is the expensive one: a single drop per second is about 25 litres a day, and a soaked cabinet floor has roughly fifteen days before mould starts
- What it costs to put right: drying alone takes up to six weeks, full restoration up to a year
- The numbers: around 300,000 water damages a year at Nordic insurers, about 35 per cent of them in the kitchen, some 20 billion kronor
- What it means for a housing association: an excess of one to five price base amounts per claim, and a payback on mats of just under two years
- Who is liable for what between a housing association and its members
- The climate side: KTH puts the renovation of one water-damaged kitchen at about 250 kg of CO2, and where that sits against UN sustainable development goals 3, 11 and 12
- Building-related ill health: mould, endotoxins, and why children are affected first
- How the mat works, where it goes, and the difference between the LoRaWAN and WiFi versions
Swedish or English, depending on the page you ask from. We email you the link; where the two editions differ, the Swedish original is the one that counts.