Serving Burien
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Burien, WA
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 comes out of the bank rather than running over it.
There is a dense layer not far down across much of this ground. Rain gets through the looser material above it, cannot get through that, and then runs sideways along the top of it until it comes out on a slope face. A house built where that boundary meets daylight takes water against its high wall under pressure. Cutting the flow off above the building is the answer, and it has to be laid out for that particular slope.
The problems appear gradually rather than after a storm.
That is what continuous rain produces. Nothing gets a dry interval between November and March, so moisture accumulates in crawl spaces and framing week by week with no event to mark. By late winter the ground is at its wettest and the accumulated moisture is at its highest. That is also why the damage is usually discovered as a smell or a soft floor rather than as a dramatic night.
When is the right time to look under the house?
February, at the wettest point of the year. A crawl space inspected in August shows you its best condition, which tells you very little about the months that cause the damage. The same space in midwinter shows where water actually arrives, how far it spreads, and whether the ground barrier is intact. Timing an inspection for the wet months costs nothing extra.
These questions come from the Burien page.