Serving Lone Tree
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Lone Tree, 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
The house is new. Should the foundation not handle this soil?
It is designed for it, and the design assumes the drainage around it is doing its part. Modern foundations here are built to tolerate a soil that expands, on the basis that the ground beside them is kept at a reasonably steady moisture level. Where roof discharge, irrigation or grading puts water against that soil, the design is being asked to do something it was not built for.
The slab downstairs has broken upward.
What has happened is heave rather than settlement, and it is the signature failure on ground like this. The soil takes on moisture, gains volume with real force and lifts whatever is resting on it. The water reached it from the surface almost every time, so the correction is outdoors: discharge carried clear, sprinklers pulled back, ground pitched away.
How much is the sprinkler system contributing to this?
A good deal more than owners expect, because it operates all summer somewhere that would otherwise be arid. A zone watering beds against the wall is delivering moisture on a timer to exactly the soil that ought to be held steady. Pulling heads back from the building and keeping planting a few feet off it costs almost nothing and it is one of the few interventions that reliably works here.
This FAQ belongs to the Lone Tree page; it is repeated here.