Serving Gresham
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Gresham, OR
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 creek flooded after a storm that was not especially big.
That is antecedent conditions doing the work. After weeks of continuous December rain the basin is saturated and has no capacity left, so an ordinary system produces runoff that the same storm in October would not. The channel is low-gradient through a developed area, which means it fills rather than flushing. Watching how wet the preceding month has been predicts flooding here better than the size of any individual forecast.
Our neighbor's drainage advice made no difference on our lot.
That is common here because the ground changes over short distances. Some of this area is free-draining Columbia outwash gravel and some is heavier soil developed on volcanic material, and they behave in opposite ways. An infiltration solution that works beautifully on gravel does nothing in heavy soil, and vice versa. A shallow test pit on your own lot in the wet season is worth more than any amount of neighborhood consensus.
There was never a flood but the crawl space is a problem.
That is the more common local damage and it accumulates rather than arriving. Through a wet season the ground under the house stays close to saturated and moisture moves continuously into the framing above. There may never be standing water. A sealed ground vapor barrier does far more than ventilation, since outdoor air in a Pacific Northwest winter is not going to dry anything, and February is the month to inspect.
Read it with the local conditions on the Gresham page.