Serving Kent
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Kent, 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
How much does the dam upstream actually matter?
A great deal for the valley floor, because that ground was river floodplain and is dry only while the structure and the levees are doing their work. That is not a criticism of either; it is the situation. What it means for an owner is that the risk here is tied to infrastructure rather than to elevation, and the condition and operation of that infrastructure is public information worth knowing about.
There is no dry spell between autumn and spring.
That is simply the climate, and it changes when work should be done rather than whether. A defect discovered in November has the next five months to act on the building, and nothing will dry out on its own in the meantime. So the calculation shifts: a repair that could reasonably wait for better weather elsewhere cannot wait here, because better weather is April and the damage is done by then.
Water comes off the hillside rather than from the river.
On the slopes either side of the valley it arrives sideways out of the ground, where water moving down through looser material meets a denser layer and runs along the top of it until it emerges. That is a different problem from the river and it needs different work: interception above the building rather than anything to do with levees or elevation.
The same questions, in context, on the Kent mold removal page.