Serving Brookhaven
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Brookhaven, MS
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 Mississippi.
Frequently asked questions
Vicksburg is loess too. Is this the same January job?
The soil is related; the setting is not. Vicksburg is a river bluff with Yazoo backwater. Here the Homochitto belt is upland silt that pipes and slumps without a mile-wide river. A void under a footing in this town is a silt path, not a bluff-toe water table. Do not copy a river-bluff diagnosis inland.
A void opened under the wall after January. Is that a plumbing leak?
Often not. Loess pipes: water finds a path, enlarges it, and the ground under the wall goes hollow. January's peak is when that usually starts. A plumbing leak can do the same, but the soil will do it alone. Dye the gutters before assuming a pipe.
The house is cut into a small bank. Which side wets?
The buried one. Loess on a cut stays wet and can slump against that wall after January. There is often no tile on the cut and no room to add one. Interior coatings will not stop silt that is being held against the outside of the wall.