Serving Hallandale Beach
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Hallandale 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.
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
If the roof does not leak, what stains a top-floor Hallandale Beach ceiling?
Three homes in four in Hallandale Beach are in buildings of ten or more units. Where a building of the mid-1970s has its flat roof laid directly over the top-floor ceiling, rain soaks into the roofing, and the sun then drives that water downward toward the cooled rooms. It condenses on the back of the ceiling, so a stain can appear on a dry day with no hole in the roof.
How should the doors be left in a Hallandale Beach unit closed for the summer?
With the cooling set high in a home held for seasonal use, as about one in four here are, the system runs only now and then, and only the air it can reach gets dried. A bedroom, bath or closet with its door shut sits outside that reach and holds the humid air all season. Leaving interior doors and closet doors open lets the return air draw from every room.
Why is the wall next to a shared laundry room damp in a Hallandale Beach building?
A laundry room shared by a floor or a whole building puts the water from many loads into a small space: washers left open, dryers venting warm, damp air, and wet floors. Where that room is not cooled, the vapor settles on its walls and works into the walls it shares with the units beside it. A damp patch on the unit side of that wall usually traces to the laundry room.
For the figures behind these answers, see Hallandale Beach.