Serving St. Charles
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in St. Charles, MO
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
Why does the confluence matter so much?
Because two enormous basins deliver here, and they do not always peak together. When their peaks are separated the system passes them one after another; when a wet spring brings them into coincidence the stage goes far higher than either river alone would produce. The record events here are almost all cases of the two arriving at once.
The levee is between this property and the river.
Which means the ground it stands on is below the river when the river is high. That is the arrangement everywhere behind a levee and it is generally sound, but it makes the consequences of a failure or an overtopping much larger than an unprotected bank would see. It also means local rain behind the levee cannot drain out by gravity while the river is up.
Some of this city is on the bluff and some is on the bottom.
That division is the single most useful thing to establish about an address here. The historic core sits high for exactly that reason, while the bottoms were built later on ground the river used to occupy. The two have almost nothing in common in terms of exposure despite being in the same city.
The same questions, in context, on the St. Charles mold removal page.