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Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Boca Raton, FL
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water. The walls on the side the wind came from are traced first, at windows, sliders, the base of the wall and the soffits. Block that took on water is dried from inside the closed building rather than left to the outdoor air.
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Often needed alongside
- Humidity & Moisture Drying
When the outdoor air is wetter than the building, opening windows adds water. Drying means a closed building and conditioned air.
- Storm Surge & Tidal Flooding
Surge and tidal water rise from the ground up and carry salt and silt with them. Anything porous they soaked is treated as contaminated.
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.
The page these come from: Boca Raton water damage.