Serving Green Cove Springs
Humidity & Moisture Drying Green Cove Springs, 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 sill beam of an old Green Cove Springs house soft where it sits on a pier?
The historic district's houses are wood frame, most of them resting on brick piers. Brick set in damp ground draws water upward, and the sill beam laid across the top of each pier takes it in where the two meet. With humid air around it all summer, that timber rarely dries. Probing the sill at each pier, and looking for a dark band at the top of the brick, shows where it is wettest.
Does living near the spring creek in Green Cove Springs keep a house damper?
It can. Water from the town's spring flows through the pool and into a winding creek that runs east to the St. Johns River, so the ground along its banks has water moving beside it in dry weeks as well as wet ones. A house close to the creek can have damp soil at its foundation or under its floor long after the rain has stopped, and the air beneath its floor takes on that water.
Beneath the raised floors of Green Cove Springs' riverside houses, what does June bring?
The historic district developed from the river westward, so its oldest frame houses stand nearest the St. Johns, on flat land close to river level. By June the ground under their raised floors is soaked, and the air moving beneath them is as wet as the ground. Clear openings in the skirting and a look at the joists after a rainy week show whether water is collecting.
The page these come from: Green Cove Springs water damage.