Serving Tamarac
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Tamarac, FL
Basement seepage, failed sumps, and hydrostatic pressure against the foundation are extracted and dried, and the path from the ground is identified so the loss does not repeat. Groundwater and basement seepage are extracted and dried only after the path from the soil is identified — a wall, a slab, a drain, or a failed sump. Drying the interior without stopping that path returns the same water to the same floor.
Frequently asked questions
The leak is in the roof above our unit but the roof belongs to the association.
That is the common situation here and it splits the job in two. The association typically owns the roof and is responsible for stopping the leak; the owner typically owns the interior finishes that got wet. Both have to happen, and the drying cannot wait for the roof decision. Documenting the source and the interior damage separately, with dates, is what keeps the two tracks from blocking each other.
Several units in our building have the same problem.
In communities built in a single phase that is expected rather than coincidental. The roofs went on at the same time, the low-slope details are identical, and they reach the end of their service life together. It is worth raising as a building-level issue rather than a series of individual repairs, because patching one unit's leak on a roof that is failing generally means returning to the next one within a season.
Why is September worse than the middle of the wet season?
Because of what the drainage network has already been doing. This ground is drained wetland kept usable by canals and pumps, and by late season that system is operating at its wet-season stage with little spare capacity. A tropical event arriving then has far less margin in front of it than the same rainfall would find in June. The rainfall is not much larger; the system's remaining room is much smaller.
These questions come from the Tamarac page.