Serving Albany
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Albany, GA
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 city is on both banks and only one side floods.
The two banks sit at different heights because the river built one of them as a low terrace and left the other alone, and nothing on the ground marks where that changes. So the same rise reaches houses on one side and leaves the other untouched. Which side an address is on decides more here than anything about the building itself.
The river drains an enormous area of farmland upstream.
It does, and drained farmland delivers to a channel considerably faster than the same ground would unaided, so the level here answers to rain across many counties. Local weather is a poor guide either way. The gauge forecast for this reach usually gives more than a day, which is enough to matter if anyone is watching it.
The insulation under the floor has soaked up water and fallen down.
Batts in a humid crawl space take up moisture from the air rather than from any leak, get heavy, lose their grip and come away, and putting new ones up simply repeats it. The work belongs to the space rather than the insulation: a sheet sealed over the bare ground, and the openings dealt with, before anything goes back overhead.
This FAQ belongs to the Albany page; it is repeated here.