Serving Highland
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Highland, 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 are basins and levees between the mountains and the houses.
There are, built after the floods that shaped this area, and they work by catching rock and soil so that what continues downstream is water rather than debris. Their capacity is finite and it is used up gradually. A basin that has not been cleared since the last event is not offering what it was designed to offer.
The wash on the edge of the city is a wide bed of sand.
And it is a floodway rather than open land, whatever it looks like in August. A channel like that carries an enormous flow when the mountain front sheds one, and because the bed is loose it shifts within its banks between events. The mapping treats it as a river because that is what it is.
There is cobble a couple of feet down across the whole lot.
Which changes what any drainage work costs, because a trench through rock and cobble is a different job from a trench through soil. It also means water moves through that layer readily once it reaches it. The practical answer here is surface work: shaping the ground and piping roof water well clear rather than digging deep.
These questions come from the Highland page.