Serving Schaumburg
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Schaumburg, IL
Commercial air movers and low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers pull moisture out of the structure, with daily moisture-meter readings logged for your insurer. Structural drying brings building materials back to a documented dry standard using air movers and dehumidifiers rather than surface evaporation alone. Moisture readings are logged through the process so the substrate, not just the surface, is confirmed dry before anything is rebuilt.
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Frequently asked questions
The pothole was filled before the house was built. Why does May still find it?
Fill over a pothole is still a bowl. Clay under that fill does not drain, so May's 4.76 inches reconstitutes the wetland in the backyard. A 1979 basement on the rim of that bowl is a hole in a wetland the plat erased on paper only.
Salt Creek is a mile south. Can it back into my tile?
When the whole farm grid is running, yes. Those tiles were aimed at the creek, and a high creek is a closed door. Water in the tile then has nowhere to go but the basement. Distance to the bank is not the test; stage at the outfall is.
A 1979 ranch. Is the clay or the tile the first failure?
Usually the tile. Clay perches the water; crushed or rooted tile is what lets it into the hole. A camera that finds a sag at the old pothole line is the local pattern, and a new sump without a new run will keep fighting the same bowl.