Serving Auburndale
Humidity & Moisture Drying Auburndale, FL
When the outdoor air is wetter than the building, opening windows adds water. Drying means a closed building and conditioned air. The building is closed to outdoor air and its air is dehumidified, because in the humid season outside air adds water. Materials are read until they match unaffected material in the same building, including inside block and slab.
Shut off the water, then pick up the phone
Often needed alongside
- AC Condensate & Drain Line Leaks
An air conditioner makes water every day it runs. When its drain clogs or its pan cracks, that water goes into the ceiling or the slab.
- Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water.
Frequently asked questions
What leaves a damp stain low on an Auburndale wall where the cooling lines come in?
Usually the gap around the lines themselves. Where the copper refrigerant lines of a house from around 1990 pass through the outside wall, the opening is often wider than the pipes and was never sealed. Outdoor air drifts into the wall cavity through it, meets the cold suction line, and condenses. Sealing the opening outside and checking the line's foam sleeve inside the wall ends it.
How does a June storm reach a house on a lot sloping toward Lake Ariana?
From uphill. Lake Ariana covers 1,019 acres, and rain on the higher streets and yards runs down toward its shore. A house standing between the street and the lake sits in that path, so its uphill wall, the slab edge on that side and any door facing the street take the water first. A swale that carries it around the house helps most.
Why do the lake-facing windows of an Auburndale house drip on summer mornings?
Because the glass is colder than the air outside it. A house that looks over Lake Ariana takes its morning air straight off the water, and where single-pane or older glass is cooled from the room side, that air condenses on the outer face and runs down to the sill. Wet sills and lifting paint below those windows show where it has been collecting.
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