Serving New Orleans
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in New Orleans, LA
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 rain stopped an hour ago. Why is water still standing in the street and at the slab?
Gravity has nowhere to send it. Much of Orleans Parish sits lower than the river, the lake, and the canals, so stormwater waits for pumps instead of running downhill. When August rain outruns that capacity, the curb holds a pond that then sheets across a slab or loads a pier bay. A local pro treats runoff that sat in the gutter as Category 3: extract first, then decide what can be dried in place.
The house is raised on piers. Why would a street flood still be a drying job?
Elevation keeps rooms above the flow; it does not keep the under-floor dry. Shotgun and Creole cottages still take standing water in the bay, and joists sit in that wet air until someone extracts and dries them. Post-war slabs in later wards have no such gap, so the same event crosses the finish. Map the assembly first. Raised stock is an under-floor extraction; a slab is a floor-and-wall job.
The yard used to drain away from the house. Now every storm ponds at the wall. What changed?
The lot dropped. Subsidence here slowly changes the relationship between the slab, the street, and the canal, so a grade that shed in 1970 can now fall back toward the wall. Pumps can empty the street and still leave a puddle against the house. Carry roof water well past the stem, and have a contractor check whether the slab edge is now the low point on the lot.
The same questions, in context, on the New Orleans mold removal page.