Serving Denver
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Denver, CO
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
Doors have started sticking and cracks have opened. Is that water?
On this soil it very often is, and the source is usually close to the house. Claystone swells when wetted, so a leaking downspout, a sprinkler zone against the wall, or an under-slab supply leak wets ground that the foundation was designed to have dry. The movement follows months later, which is why the two are rarely connected. Checking for a plumbing loss before commissioning foundation work is the order that saves money.
How much difference does moving the sprinklers really make?
More than most structural work does, for a fraction of the cost. Irrigation against a wall keeps expansive soil continuously wet rather than occasionally, which is precisely the condition foundations here are not designed for. Moving heads and drip lines back several feet and extending downspouts well clear is inexpensive, reversible, and it addresses the cause rather than the symptom.
Two inches in May does not sound like much.
The monthly figure hides how it arrives. A large share of the year's precipitation comes in short intense cells onto ground with a hard crusted surface that sheds almost all of it, so runoff happens at close to the full rainfall rate. Streets and creek corridors then carry it. Annual totals describe how little falls here; they say nothing about what happens to the part that does.
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