Serving Cortland
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Cortland, NY
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 is nowhere near the creek and the cellar filled.
Coarse gravel passes a rise sideways with very little resistance, so what the channel does out there becomes what the ground does underfoot a long way inland. Nothing overtops and nothing crosses the surface: the floor simply ends up the lowest point of a body of water that has grown to include the street. A pit and a pump address it.
Cracks show in the cellar wall each spring.
Moisture in the soil beside a wall freezes, expands and presses inward, and stonework of this age gives slightly where it can without recovering fully in the thaw. The change shows in March rather than during a storm, which is the tell. Drier ground going into the freeze helps more than a spring repair.
The brook off the hill came up and went down within the hour.
Ground that short and steep above a valley holds nothing back at all, so an entire storm reaches the channel together and the level leaps rather than spreading out. It subsides just as quickly. Streams that size are gauged by nobody, so whatever a neighbor photographed on the afternoon is the only account that will ever exist of it.
The same questions, in context, on the Cortland mold removal page.