Serving Ankeny
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Ankeny, IA
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 subdivision is new and everything meets current standards.
Individually it does, and the cumulative effect is a separate question. Each development detains its own runoff to the standard of its day, but the creek downstream receives the sum of all of them plus whatever the standard did not capture. Compliance lot by lot does not guarantee the channel at the bottom was sized for the total.
This was a cornfield ten years ago.
And it was almost certainly drained by tile, much of which is still in the ground under the houses. Those lines were laid to a field pattern nobody has a complete record of, and they continue to carry water to wherever they were originally routed. They surface as unexplained wet spots and as water arriving at foundations from no visible direction.
Why does a new house have a wet basement?
Usually because the ground around it has not finished settling and the grading has changed since the builder left. Backfill against a new foundation compacts for several years, and as it drops it forms a channel directing roof and surface water straight down the wall. It is one of the most common patterns in recently built neighborhoods here.
The same questions, in context, on the Ankeny mold removal page.