Serving Coleman
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Coleman, 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
What softens the floor at the water heater closet of an older Coleman manufactured home?
Where the water heater stands in an interior closet directly on the floor decking, with no pan beneath it, a tank that has begun to seep at its base wets the wood a little every day. In humid summer air the decking never dries between drips, so it swells and softens around the tank. A pan with a drain line carried outdoors keeps that water off the floor.
Does wooden skirting keep the space under a Coleman manufactured home wetter?
It can. Manufactured homes are common in Coleman, and some older ones are skirted with plywood or wood lattice instead of vinyl. Wood takes up each August storm and holds it, so the skirting stays wet at the edge of the space under the floor, and the air beneath the home, where the cooled ducts run, stays damp with it. Panels that stay dark long after the rain are holding water.
Why does a drain field in the low corner of a Coleman lot fill so fast?
Coleman has 287 homes with septic systems on record. Where a field was laid in the lowest corner of a small lot, the rain falling on the yard above runs down to it, so in August the field takes that runoff as well as the rain on it, and has little room left for the household's water. A shallow swale that turns the yard's runoff around the field helps.
Each answer ties back to the Coleman overview.