Serving Skokie
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Skokie, 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.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in Illinois.
Frequently asked questions
Water rose through the floor drain rather than coming in at a wall. Meaning?
That the sewer surcharged rather than the foundation leaking. Water arriving through a fixture during heavy rain is Category 3 and carries waste, so the response is disinfection and removal of porous material rather than exterior drainage. The two look identical on a basement floor.
This was wetland before it was built. Does that still matter?
It does, because the water table is unchanged. Draining and filling ground makes it buildable without lowering where the groundwater naturally sits, so basements excavated into it stay close to that level. Wet springs bring it back to something near its original height.
Would a backwater valve solve this?
It addresses one specific route — water pushing backward through the lateral — which is the mechanism when a floor drain is the entry point. It does nothing about groundwater or surface water, so establishing which problem a given basement actually has comes first.