Serving Fort Walton Beach
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Fort Walton Beach, 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.
Wet days later? That is worth a call
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
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.
Fort Walton Beach's own page carries them beside the local figures.