Serving Toledo
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Toledo, 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
What is a seiche, and why would it wet a dry street?
It is the lake sloshing. A sustained west wind pushes Erie into the western basin and can raise Maumee Bay several feet; when the wind drops, that water comes back. Outfalls drown, floor drains run backward, and a cellar can take a foot of water on a day that never rained here.
The water came up the floor drain. Is that groundwater?
Usually not. Groundwater through a wall is relatively clean. Water up a drain during a seiche or a May storm is the sewer and the river sharing a pipe, which means it is handled as contaminated. The response is valves and removal, not a dehumidifier.
Eighty-nine percent of the houses predates 1990. What is missing in those basements?
A backflow valve and a drain that is separate from the combined sewer. That era tied the cellar drain to the street because it was cheap and the lake was assumed to stay put. Seiches and surcharges were not designed for, so the failure is the original plumbing layout.