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Following the wet edge across the floor to where it began.

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Moisture load in Bartow

Water in a ceiling, wall or slab anywhere in Bartow is one call away from a local restoration pro. Bartow began as Fort Blount, a stockade established in the 1850s near the dead-waters of the Peace River, on ground about 118 feet up.

When these homes went up

Since 1990, Bartow has added 35.9 percent of the homes it has now, though the median still dates to 1979; builders of each era set the ducts and the cold surfaces where they remain. In a late-1970s house whose air handler stands in an interior closet, the refrigerant lines can run beneath or through the slab to reach it, and once the insulation on the cold suction line has worn thin, that line sweats into the concrete around it on every long summer run.

When the air turns heavy

Bartow spends two months in which the dewpoint never falls below 70 degrees, day or night, in July and August; of 50.88 inches in a normal year, 8.28 fall in June, rain recorded at BARTOW 1SE 0.7 miles away and dewpoint 44.2 miles away. No tide reaches under a Bartow slab, about 118 feet above sea level, but a sunken living room of the late 1970s sits one step nearer the soil, so the edge along its step is where the summer's damp gathers first.

What holds water in Bartow

  • Refrigerant lines run under or through the slab to an interior air handler closet in late-1970s houses, sweating into the concrete once their insulation wears thin
  • Sunken living rooms in houses of that era, whose lower slab sits a step closer to the soil and holds damp along the edge beneath the step
  • Slabs on ground about 118 feet above sea level, where a damp floor is traced first to the cooling system and the supply lines in the walls

Water Damage Restoration services in Bartow

Pick the source that fits: the cooling system, a storm, a slab line, rising water or a backup. A local Bartow pro handles each, starting with the call.

Areas covered around Bartow

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Frequently asked questions

What wets the floor around the air handler closet in an older Bartow house?

Often the refrigerant lines. In some late-1970s houses with the air handler in an interior closet, the copper lines run under or through the slab to reach it. The larger of the two carries cold gas, and once its foam insulation wears thin it runs colder than the concrete around it, so water forms on it all summer and spreads into the slab and the floor covering nearest the closet.

Can a sunken living room in a Bartow house stay damp?

It can. A late-1970s house with a sunken living room has that floor set a step lower than the rest of the slab, a few inches closer to the soil outside. Through the humid months that lower slab runs cooler and takes up more moisture from below, and the strip along the step, where carpet tack strip and baseboard meet the concrete, is usually where the damp shows first.

What does Bartow's ground mean for a damp slab?

Bartow's center stands about 118 feet above sea level, well above any tide, and the town grew up near the dead-waters of the Peace River in the 1850s. A slab on that higher ground is seldom wet from the sea, so a damp floor is worth tracing first to the cooling system's lines and drain, and to the water supply pipes in the walls nearest it.

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