Serving Brooksville
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Brooksville, 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.
Shut off the water, then pick up the phone
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
What lets damp air reach the ducts under an older Brooksville manufactured home?
Openings in the belly wrap. The wrap is the fabric sheet that closes in the underside of the floor and holds the insulation around the cooled ducts. Where an animal has chewed through it, or an installer cut it and never sealed it, humid outdoor air flows in against those cold ducts. Water forms on the duct jacket, soaks the insulation and settles in the low spots of the wrap.
Why do the window corners of an older Brooksville manufactured home take in July rain?
Many older manufactured homes were built with little or no roof overhang. With nothing to throw the rain clear, a July downpour sheets straight down the wall and into the joints around each window and along the bottom edge of the siding. Brooksville stands some 178 feet above sea level, so its water comes from the sky, and in the humid weeks that follow the soaked joints stay wet.
How can an air handler platform in a Brooksville house make the rooms feel damp?
Where the air handler stands on a framed platform that also forms the return, the platform's wood and drywall sit right below the pan. When the pan overflows or its drain slows, that water soaks into the platform, and the return then pulls air across the wet surfaces and sends it to every room. A stained or soft platform base is the sign to look for.
These questions also sit on the Brooksville page, next to its numbers.