Serving Gloucester
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Gloucester, MA
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 ground is solid rock. Should that not mean dry?
It means the opposite more often than not. Rock takes no water at all, so everything that falls has to move through whatever thin soil sits on top of it or across the surface. A site on ledge has almost no storage, which is why water arrives fast and appears against walls that seem to be well above any water table.
What makes a nor'easter different from a summer storm?
Duration and wind direction. A summer cell drops a lot quickly and moves on, leaving the ground a day to recover. A nor'easter delivers moderate rain for a day or two while pushing the sea onshore across several tide cycles, so the ground never drains and the outfalls stay drowned. The totals can look similar and the outcomes are not.
The cellar is only a few feet deep.
That is the ledge, and it is why cellars here are shallow. A shallow cellar is not automatically drier, because on this ground the water is moving laterally along the rock rather than rising from below. It reaches a shallow wall as readily as a deep one, so depth is not a useful guide to risk here.
This FAQ belongs to the Gloucester page; it is repeated here.