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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 Boca Raton

From an air handler dripping in University Park and Old Floresta to a slab that stays damp elsewhere in Boca Raton, one call connects you with a local pro working the area. By late 1927 Old Floresta held twenty-nine houses built from ten Mizner plans; seventy more have gone up there since World War II.

What the homes date from

Since 1990, Boca Raton has added 31 percent of the homes it has now, though the median still dates to 1983; builders of each era set the ducts and the cold surfaces where they remain. More than two in five homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, and where a building stands over open-air parking, the cooled floor of each ground-floor unit is the garage's ceiling, colder than the humid air moving through the parking level, so water forms on the concrete's underside and drips onto the cars below.

The months that matter

The normal dewpoint in Boca Raton stays at or above 70 degrees around the clock from June through September, reaching 75.5 in August; June is the wettest month, with 8.54 of 65.64 inches, rain recorded 4.8 miles away and dewpoint 21.6 miles away. In Old Floresta, the Aiken House of 1926 has flat loggia roofs of pitch and gravel behind parapets capped in terra cotta tile, and where a roof like that holds June's rain against its parapet, the water sits above the room below through weeks of air too humid to dry it.

The usual sources here

  • Ground-floor units in buildings set over open-air parking, where the underside of the cooled floor meets humid garage air and drips onto the cars beneath
  • Flat roofs behind parapets on 1920s Mediterranean Revival houses, where June's rain lingers along the base of the parapet above the rooms
  • Storage rooms on open parking levels, on ground about 15 feet above sea level, where boxes and furniture sit in outdoor air through the wettest weeks

Water Damage Restoration services in Boca Raton

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

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Frequently asked questions

Why is the garage ceiling under a Boca Raton condominium building wet?

More than two in five Boca Raton homes are in buildings of ten or more units. Where such a building stands over open-air parking, the units above are cooled, so the concrete between them and the garage runs cooler than the outdoor air passing through the parking level, and water condenses on its underside. Drips on cars and dark patches on the garage ceiling are the signs, most of all in the humid months.

What happens to rain on the flat roof of an old house in Old Floresta?

Old Floresta's first twenty-nine houses were built from Addison Mizner plans by the end of 1927, and the Aiken House there has flat loggia roofs of pitch and gravel behind parapets capped with terra cotta tile. On a roof like that, rain that does not reach a drain waits behind the parapet, and in humid weeks it dries slowly, so the ceiling of the room below is the place to watch for stains.

Why do things kept in a Boca Raton condominium storage room get damp?

A storage room on an open parking level sits in outdoor air rather than the building's cooled air, so through June its contents take on the outdoor humidity. Cardboard, upholstered furniture and paper soak it up, and anything stored against the concrete wall or floor picks up water there too. Plastic bins with lids, raised off the floor, keep stored things out of the worst of it.

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