Serving Greenacres
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Greenacres, FL
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 swale between the houses is where all the water goes. Can we fill it in?
It is almost certainly there because it has to be. In communities on flat drained land, those swales and their inlets are the designed route water takes off the lots, and there is no natural slope to fall back on. Filling one for a fence, a shed, or a garden removes drainage that several properties depend on, and the loss is invisible until a storm large enough to need it arrives. The community's drainage plan will show whether it is a designed swale.
Why does August flood us when June never does?
Because of what the season has already done. The ground here is kept usable by pumping the water table down, and by August the canal network has been working for months and is operating at its wet-season stage. The same ten inches in June would meet a system with far more room. It is not that August storms are worse; it is that there is less capacity in front of them.
Water came in at the slab edge. What actually stops that?
Keeping the sheet moving past the building. On ground with no fall, water travels across the surface until something interrupts it, and a slab edge a few inches above grade is exactly that. Making sure the ground immediately around the house falls away, that no bed or patio has been built up against the wall, and that the nearest inlet is clear, does more than anything applied to the wall itself.
This FAQ belongs to the Greenacres page; it is repeated here.