Serving Taylor
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Taylor, 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
Where is the additional water in the sewer coming from?
Chiefly private ground rather than the roadway. Downspouts piped into house drains, footing drains joined to the same line and old laterals with joints open enough to admit groundwater all feed it, and in a city built this uniformly a great many were done identically. Taking one downspout off that line also helps everyone downstream.
The channel behind the houses is a county drain, not a creek.
Which changes who can act on it. A drain of that kind is a legal watercourse maintained under its own arrangements, established to make this ground usable, and it carries runoff from well beyond the city boundary. Establishing which authority holds a particular length is worth doing on a dry afternoon rather than during a storm.
The airport next door is an enormous continuous paved area.
It is, and a surface of that size sheds essentially everything that lands on it into a small number of channels. It has its own drainage and its own authority rather than the city's, so where flow arrives from that direction the office to approach is a different one. Establishing which is the first step.
These questions come from the Taylor page.