Serving Berkeley
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Berkeley, CA
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
There is a creek running under this street somewhere.
The fault line at the foot of the hills has disturbed ground either side of it, and springs break out along that zone in ways the surface gives no sign of. That is why a wet patch on one lot can have nothing to do with its neighbor's, and why local memory here is a poorer guide than usual.
Flats or hills: which advice applies here?
Where the original ground ran decides how a pad behaves, and that line falls in a different place on every lot. One may be almost entirely on undisturbed ground while its neighbor is mostly on placed fill, which settles as it wets. The grading plan filed when the tract was built shows where it lies.
Nothing has fallen since March. What should be looked at?
The roof, in October rather than after the first storm. Eight dry months are ample for a seal to fail, a flashing to lift or a gutter to fill with debris unnoticed, and the first real rain then finds every one of them together. Half an hour up there before November prevents more damage here than most drainage work would.
The Berkeley overview carries this FAQ with the city research.