Serving Bellingham
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Bellingham, WA
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 Washington.
Frequently asked questions
November is the peak. Why is a crawlspace still wet in February?
Because November is the start, not the event. The next four months keep adding rain with almost no drying, so a crawl that got wet in the first front is still wet in February. Seattle's story is duration too, but here the rock is Chuckanut that seeps at the cut, and the flats are a bay water table. The calendar is the same. The ground is not.
The house is on South Hill, well above the creek. Is Whatcom still involved?
Not as flood. As the cut, yes. South Hill houses are benched into Chuckanut, and November rain that entered the rock above the house is still arriving at the uphill wall in February. The creek is the downtown problem. The seep is the hillside one.
A daylight basement on rock. Should that be the dry assembly here?
Rock looks like a drain and behaves like a pipe. Fractured Chuckanut carries water along the bedding to the cut face, which is the back wall of the daylight room. Without a drain at that cut, the finished wall is the dam. The view is toward the bay. The water is coming from the hill.