Serving Midland
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Midland, MI
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 house had never flooded and then it did.
Where a failure upstream is the cause, the property's own history is no guide at all, because the event was not the sort of thing that history records. That is worth saying plainly rather than treating the past as reassurance. What is useful instead is the current mapping and the current state of the structures upstream, both of which have been revisited since.
Who is responsible for a dam that is not the government's?
A private owner, under state oversight, and the balance between those two is exactly what became the issue here. For a property downstream the practical questions are which structures are above it, who holds them, when they were last inspected and what the finding was. Those are matters of public record, and they are worth looking at rather than assuming somebody else is watching.
Is the flood mapping still accurate after something like that?
It has been revised, and the revision rather than anyone's memory is the document that matters. Modeling a river system after structures are removed or altered produces different lines than before, and those lines determine insurance as well as expectation. Anyone near either channel is worth checking the current version for rather than relying on what was true previously.
This FAQ belongs to the Midland page; it is repeated here.