Serving Kent
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Kent, OH
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 river behaves differently than it used to.
It does, and that is the expected result of taking a dam out. A pool held back for generations becomes a flowing reach, so the level at a given point, the speed of the water and how the banks behave all change. Most of those changes reduce flood risk upstream. What they also do is make anyone's memory of the old river an unreliable guide, which is worth saying plainly.
Is the flood mapping still accurate after a change like that?
It is revised, and the revision is the document that matters rather than the one people remember. Modeling a reach after a structure is removed produces different lines than before it, and those lines determine insurance as well as expectations. Anyone near the channel is worth checking the current mapping for rather than relying on a figure from before the work.
How much notice does rain upstream give here?
Less than a day, because the catchment above town is modest in size and much of it is developed. Rain across the county reaches the channel quickly and passes through within hours rather than building over days. That makes the forecast, rather than the gauge, the thing to act on for a property close to the water, since by the time the gauge moves there is not much time left.
These questions come from the Kent page.