Serving Spokane
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Spokane, 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
Why is drainage put into the ground here?
Because the ground takes it better than any pipe could carry it away. The gravels beneath much of this area are exceptionally permeable, so infiltrating storm runoff is more effective than routing it to the river. It is a sound approach on this geology and unusual in most of the country.
If the ground drains that well, what goes wrong?
The occasions when it does not. Frozen ground in winter takes nothing, and basalt at shallow depth in some neighborhoods stops infiltration abruptly regardless of season. A drainage approach that depends entirely on the ground accepting water has no fallback in the periods it will not.
Snow, not rain, is what this place actually gets.
For most purposes yes. Annual rainfall is small and a good deal of winter precipitation falls as snow that sits until it releases. The load arrives when that happens, particularly when rain falls onto existing snowpack, rather than from any individual rainstorm.
These questions come from the Spokane page.