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Still Wet Days Later

Water Damage Restoration Altamonte Springs, FL

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A stained ceiling, a damp wall, and one question: what is feeding it?

Why a Florida building stays wet: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

Damp buildings in Altamonte Springs

Across Riverside Acres and the rest of Altamonte Springs, a building still wet days after a leak is one phone call from a local pro. Some 8,200 of the city's 22,800 homes are in buildings of ten or more units, many households sharing one roof and its drains.

What the homes date from

Built around a median year of 1983, about three quarters of the housing (70.6 percent) in Altamonte Springs is older than 1990, so much of it was fitted for cooling the way builders of the early 1980s went about it. More than a third of the homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, and where several apartments' condensate lines join one shared drain, a blockage low in that drain sends the upstairs units' water back out at the lowest connection, into a ground-floor air handler closet.

The months that matter

The normal dewpoint in Altamonte Springs stays at or above 70 degrees around the clock in July and August, reaching 75.2 in August; June is the wettest month, with 8.92 of 55.07 inches, rain recorded 6 miles away and dewpoint 8.8 miles away. At about 80 feet above sea level, the sandy ground under the city's slabs drains quickly once a June downpour passes, so the water a ground-floor apartment holds in late summer more often comes down through the building than up through the floor.

The usual sources here

  • Shared condensate drains serving several apartments, where a blockage near the bottom pushes the upstairs units' water back out at the lowest air handler on the line
  • Slabs on well-drained ground about 80 feet above sea level, where a wet floor points first to a leak inside the building rather than to water rising from below
  • Condensate lines that empty beside a building's foundation or into a planter at its edge, keeping the ground at the slab wet through every month the cooling runs

Water Damage Restoration services in Altamonte Springs

AC overflows, wind-driven rain, surge, slab leaks and backflow: local pros in Altamonte Springs take each one on.

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Frequently asked questions

Why would a ground-floor Altamonte Springs apartment flood from its air handler closet when nothing in it is broken?

In buildings where several apartments' condensate lines run into one shared drain, a blockage near the bottom of that drain stops all of them at once. The water from the units above then backs up and spills out at the lowest connection, which is often a ground-floor air handler's pan. Building maintenance can clear the shared line; replacing the unit's own equipment will not help.

Can water come up through the slab of an Altamonte Springs home?

It is rarely the first suspect here. The city stands about 80 feet above sea level on sandy ground that drains soon after the rain stops, so a damp floor usually has a source inside the building: a supply line, a shower pan, a condensate line or a water heater. Checking those, and the walls nearest them, before looking at the ground saves time.

Where does the water from an Altamonte Springs apartment building's cooling end up outside?

Each air handler sends its condensate out through a drain line, and in many buildings those lines end beside the foundation, in a planter or on a walkway. With more than a third of the city's homes in buildings of ten or more units, that can be a steady flow every cooling day, keeping the soil at the slab edge wet. Lines that end well away from the wall avoid it.

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If water is still coming in, close the main shutoff, or switch the air handler off if the water is coming from it, before calling.

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