Serving Fort Walton Beach
Humidity & Moisture Drying Fort Walton Beach, FL
When the outdoor air is wetter than the building, opening windows adds water. Drying means a closed building and conditioned air. The building is closed to outdoor air and its air is dehumidified, because in the humid season outside air adds water. Materials are read until they match unaffected material in the same building, including inside block and slab.
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Often needed alongside
- AC Condensate & Drain Line Leaks
An air conditioner makes water every day it runs. When its drain clogs or its pan cracks, that water goes into the ceiling or the slab.
- Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the attic of an older Fort Walton Beach house so humid?
Painting the soffit vents shut, or covering them during later work on the eaves of an early-1970s house, cuts off the air that should flow in low and out high. Humid air still gets in, but it sits still around the cooled ducts and under the roof deck, and water condenses on both. Opening the soffit vents again restores the flow.
Why does the air handler in an older Fort Walton Beach house overflow after a long August day?
Where a newer, larger system has been fitted to an older house without enlarging the return, too little air crosses the coil, and on long August runs it can ice over. When the system cycles off, that ice melts all at once, faster than the pan and drain line can carry it, and the pan spills. Frost on the refrigerant line at the air handler is the warning sign.
Which Fort Walton Beach houses take the runoff from a summer downpour first?
The city's stormwater runs through ditches, curbs, catch basins and underground pipes to Choctawhatchee Bay, Santa Rosa Sound and their tributaries, a system first laid when flooding was the main concern. A house on the low side of a street, or beside one of those tributaries, sits in the water's path, and its slab edge and lowest doors are where a summer downpour reaches first.
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