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Before anything else: the source of the water, and how far it reached.

Why a Florida building stays wet: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

Fort Meade: why buildings stay damp

Across Fort Meade, a building still wet days after a leak is one phone call from a local pro. About a quarter of Fort Meade's homes are manufactured, and the town stands 145 feet above sea level, 36 miles from the open coast.

The housing, by era

1978 is the median build year in Fort Meade, and 69.1 percent of the stock went up before 1990, an age that tends to settle whether the ductwork runs overhead through the attic or below the floor. About a quarter of the homes here are manufactured, and where an older one is cooled by a window unit, the water the unit wrings from the room's air drips off its outer edge onto the siding and the skirting below, keeping one stretch of wall and ground wet through every day the cooling runs.

Humid months and wet months

Fort Meade spends two months in which the dewpoint never falls below 70 degrees, day or night, in July and August; of 52.07 inches in a normal year, 8.6 fall in June, rain recorded 5.8 miles away and dewpoint 46.9 miles away. The strip of ground at the base of a home's walls takes the downpours of June, the wettest month, and wherever a window unit hangs above it, a steady drip from the cooling as well, so that soil and the skirting beside it never dry out between storms.

The soft spots here

  • Window cooling units on older manufactured homes, dripping the water they pull from the air down the siding and onto the skirting beneath
  • Ground under the drip line of a window unit, kept wet through June so the air beneath that end of the home stays damp
  • Window units tilted toward the room instead of away from it, which send their water down the inside face of the wall instead of outdoors

Water Damage Restoration services in Fort Meade

Each card below is a different source of water. Local pros in Fort Meade handle calls about any of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Why is the siding below a window unit on a Fort Meade manufactured home always wet?

About a quarter of Fort Meade's homes are manufactured, and some older ones are cooled by window units. A window unit pulls water out of the room's air and lets it drip from the back edge outdoors. That drip lands on the siding and skirting below every day the unit runs, and in June it adds to the rain, so that strip of wall and ground stays wet.

Why is there water inside the wall under a window air conditioner in Fort Meade?

A window unit is meant to tip slightly toward the outdoors, so the water it collects runs out the back. If the unit has settled level or tilts toward the room, that water spills from the front edge instead, onto the sill and down the inside face of the wall, often behind furniture. A stain or soft spot below the unit indoors points to the tilt, which is a simple fix.

Does water dripping from a window unit reach under a Fort Meade manufactured home?

It can. The drip from a window unit falls onto the ground along the skirting, and through June that ground is already taking the rain. Soil kept wet at the edge of a home feeds damp air into the space beneath the floor, where the cooled ducts sit. A splash block or short pipe that carries the drip a few feet out keeps that strip of ground drier.

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