Serving Canton
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Canton, OH
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 creek stayed in its banks. Why is the cellar still a June problem?
Overbank flow is only one path. Combined sewers on these benches surcharge when June rain hits a system carrying groundwater, and a brick cellar takes the pipes with the creek behaving itself. The channel is the obvious event; the quieter one is the sewer.
Is a brick mill cellar a different assembly from a poured 1947 ranch?
Yes. Mill brick and rubble pass moisture and have no damp-proofing. The ranch is a poured wall against clay, often without tile. One wets through the material; the other wets at the joints and the uphill face. Same June storm, two scopes.
Cleveland has the lake. Why is this inland creek city still this wet in a basement?
Because the stock is older and the drainage is a creek-and-sewer system, not a lake plain. A 1947 median with 91 percent pre-1990 means the cellars are the original ones. June's 4.76 inches is enough when the pipes and the walls are both from that era.