Bathroom remodeling in Des Moines often starts in a bungalow or a ranch bath that was already small, then gets a ceiling stain after hail opens the roof. That stain over the tub is roof water until a pipe proves otherwise. Do not pick finishes while the slope above is still bruised. Fans that dump into the attic make the next ice problem and confuse the leak. Start with what is wet and what has been wet since the storm.
The rooms themselves are tight. Plaster or a later surround, a window over the tub, and a floor that rocks at the toilet are the ordinary bones. Hail did not invent a tired pan, and a remodel can still be about that pan if the ceiling is dry. Say which. Galvanized lines in older houses turn a faucet swap into an open wall. Mineral and humidity mark what a well or an old heater has been doing for years. The shutoff may not shut.
Leak from above, leak from the trap, fan, and full rework are four different calls. A shared stack or a bath over a kitchen means the ceiling below is the witness. If you only need a valve, say so. Moving a drain on a slab ranch is the large decision. Waterproof the wet wall before the mirror. Access is the door, the stair, and debris leaving a lot that may already be full of gutter grit.
A west-facing bath window may also be cracked from the same hail. Say if glass is in the room. Cold winters still make that pane a rot risk when the stool stays wet. If the stain grows only when it rains and the faucets are dry, keep calling it the roof. If the cabinet is wet and the ceiling is not, call it plumbing. Mixing them wastes the first visit.
Name bungalow or ranch, and say whether the ceiling was marked by the storm. Des Moines hail will use a bruised roof against this room. Call the number on this page.