Serving Lawrence
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Lawrence, KS
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
Bottomland or hill: does it change the answer?
Entirely. On the bottom the water arrives from beneath as the river raises the level in the ground, and the work is interior drainage with a pump. On the hills it arrives across the surface or along the top of rock, and the work is interception above the building. A remedy matched to one is simply wrong for the other.
The city climbs a steep hill from the river in a short distance.
It does, and that puts a great deal of runoff onto the streets rather than into the drains, because water on a grade like that is moving too fast to drop into a grate. The lowest blocks receive what every block above them shed. The work that helps down there is at the boundary rather than in the road.
Nobody living here now was here for the last one.
Annual turnover means the record of what a property has done lives in the files rather than in anybody head. City records show past repairs, the mapping shows the ground, and the two or three households on a street who have stayed put hold everything else. Ask inside the first month; nobody will offer it unprompted during a storm.
These questions come from the Lawrence page.