Serving Crestview
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Crestview, 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 are the small gaps along the bottom of a Crestview brick wall for?
They are weep openings. Brick veneer stands an inch or so off the house's sheathing, and rain that soaks through the brick runs down that gap and out through the weeps. Where a flower bed, mulch or soil has been built up over them, the water has no exit, and the gap stays wet against the sheathing through the summer. Keeping the weeps uncovered lets it drain.
Why does the yard below a sloping Crestview drain field stay soggy after July storms?
Where a drain field runs across a slope, the household water does not spread evenly; most of it moves to the lowest trench. Crestview has some 2,068 homes with septic systems on record, and after a run of July storms that lowest trench fills first and can seep out of the hillside, keeping the ground below it wet and sending water toward any foundation downhill.
Should an outside wall in a Crestview house have plastic behind the drywall?
Not in this climate. Plastic sheeting behind the drywall suits a cold place, where it keeps indoor moisture out of the wall in winter. Here, for most of the year the humid air is outside, and whatever reaches the wall cavity meets the cooled back of that plastic and turns to water. It runs down the sheet and collects at the bottom plate, out of sight from the room.
The page these come from: Crestview water damage.