Serving Roanoke
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Roanoke, VA
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
It rained moderately in town and the river came up hard.
The mountains either side receive considerably more from the same system than the floor does, because the terrain lifts the air and wrings it out. So the river responds to rainfall nobody in town experienced. Following what fell on the slopes rather than what fell in the yard is what makes these events predictable instead of surprising.
The creek off the mountain rose and fell within an afternoon.
Short steep ground does precisely that. Everything above reaches the channel at once because there is nowhere for any of it to be held, and the section is too small to let the water spread, so the level jumps and then drops back within the afternoon. Channels that size are not gauged by anyone, so what somebody photographs at the time is the only record that will ever exist.
Slope or valley floor: does it change the work?
Completely. On the slopes water arrives sideways through the ground and meets the uphill wall of a cellar under pressure, and the work is interception above the building. On the floor it comes from beneath as the river raises the level in the soil, and the work is a pit and a pump. Advice for one is close to useless for the other.
The same questions, in context, on the Roanoke mold removal page.