Serving Aberdeen
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Aberdeen, SD
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
Water has stood in the low ground for weeks.
Those shallow basins have no outlet, so water collects and leaves only by soaking slowly into clay or by evaporating, which takes weeks. It is a feature of the landscape rather than a failure of anything. A drain helps only if somewhere lower will accept the water, and on ground this flat there frequently is nowhere. Keeping the basin away from the building is the practical response.
The pump is working and the level in the pit will not drop.
That is almost always a frozen discharge line. The pump pushes into a blocked pipe and the water returns, destroying the pump while the basement fills behind it. The cure is in the line rather than the pump: enough fall to empty between cycles, an outlet kept clear of drifted snow, and a relief fitting that gives blocked water another route out.
Under four inches in the wettest month. Why is water an issue?
Because almost none of it can leave. Lake bed clay is close to impermeable and there is no gradient, so what falls stays on or near the surface until it evaporates. Add a winter of snow released over a fortnight onto frozen ground and the ordinary annual figure becomes irrelevant. Rainfall totals here are a poor guide to what a foundation actually experiences.
These questions come from the Aberdeen page.