Serving Burnsville
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Burnsville, MN
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 old quarry ground behind the city is full of water.
It is, and those pits reach down into the rock rather than sitting as separate ponds, so their level reports what is happening underground across a wide area rather than what has rained. Watching one is a useful daily reading of the ground beneath a property nearby, and it moves for reasons the weather does not explain.
The bluff along the river valley is steep and it moves.
It does, and the movement follows weeks of saturated ground rather than any single storm, so it is a late-spring event rather than a storm one. Fresh cracks along the top of a slope, trees leaning out of line and new seeps on the face are the signs, and they are worth walking for each April.
The wetlands between the neighborhoods are protected.
They are, which among other things means nobody is going to lower one because a garden has got wet. Their levels follow multi-year weather rather than single storms, so a run of wet years raises them and they stay raised. Planning against the high end of that range is more realistic than expecting relief.
This FAQ belongs to the Burnsville page; it is repeated here.