Serving Georgetown
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Georgetown, KY
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 low spot in the field used to swallow everything and now it ponds.
That is a swallet closing, and it is one of the characteristic events on this ground. Openings in the rock take water freely until silt, debris or a collapse blocks them, and when that happens the water has nowhere to go and the low spot becomes a pond. It is not a drainage failure in the ordinary sense and clearing a ditch will not address it.
Does what happens on this property affect the town's water?
It can, more directly than in most places. Water going into the ground here reaches the spring that supplies the town without much filtering along the way, because it travels through open rock rather than through soil. That is why what is spilled, stored or discharged on the surface matters here in a way it would not elsewhere. It is worth knowing before, not after, an incident.
Water arrives at the basement wall hours after the rain has stopped.
Late water has come through the rock rather than across the ground. It works down through the thin soil, meets rock it cannot pass, and travels along that until something interrupts it, which takes time and can bring it from well beyond the boundary. Surface runoff turns up during the storm. That gap in timing is real evidence, and it points the work below ground.
This FAQ belongs to the Georgetown page; it is repeated here.