Serving Tuscaloosa
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Tuscaloosa, AL
Commercial dehumidifiers and air movers remove moisture from the structure, with daily readings logged from the material itself for claim documentation. 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.
Frequently asked questions
A great deal of the housing here is let by the year to students.
It is, and that changes where the history of a building lives: in files rather than in anyone's memory. Whether a basement has flooded, whether the drain has backed up, whether a pump was replaced, none of it gets handed on at the end of a lease. Ask the owner for records rather than the occupants.
The structure upstream decides what the river does here.
Largely, yes. Releases from it are operating decisions taken over days rather than reactions to a storm, and they are published. The level here can therefore rise on a clear afternoon and stay up long after the weather has cleared. Following the release schedule gives warning that the forecast does not.
Nobody in this house was living here last year.
It answers to releases from the structure upstream as well as to rainfall, so it changes for reasons not visible from the bank. That is routine and generally well run. What it means for an owner is that judging the water by the sky is unreliable, and the published level and its forecast are the numbers worth using.
This FAQ belongs to the Tuscaloosa page; it is repeated here.