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AC Leaks and Storm Water

Water Damage Restoration Key West, FL

Key West and the rest of Florida: when a wall or floor stays wet long after the leak, one call puts it with a local pro.

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Many of these jobs start under the air handler or along a slab.

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

What keeps Key West buildings wet

Water in a ceiling, wall or slab in Key West, from Beachside, The Meadows, and White Street Gallery District across town, is one call away from a local restoration pro. In the historic district at Key West's naval base, wood frame quarters stand on concrete piers, built much like the city's Conch houses.

The age of the buildings

About 11,342 of the 14,574 homes in Key West were finished before 1990, around a median of 1968; a home's age can show in where its condensate drains and what its floor sits on. Under a wood frame house raised on piers, the outdoor air moves freely and rises through the gaps between the boards, and where the house is one of the about one in seven held for seasonal use and closed, it reaches rooms with no cooling running to dry it.

The humid season

From June through September, any surface in a Key West building cooler than 70 degrees, a supply duct or a cold water line, sits below the normal outdoor dewpoint at every hour; 46.49 inches fall in a normal year, 8.01 of them in September, rain recorded at KEY WEST 0.5 SW 0.6 miles away and dewpoint at KEY WEST INTL AP 1.6 miles away. With the city's center about a mile from the open coast and under 5 feet above sea level, September's rain arrives on a salt wind, and the wood porch floors and steps of raised frame houses hold both at the joints where they meet the house.

Where water settles in Key West

  • Raised wood frame houses closed for the season, about one home in seven, where humid air rises from beneath through the gaps in the floorboards
  • Wood porch floors and steps on raised houses, where rain and salt on the wind collect at the joint with the house wall
  • Ductless wall units added to houses of the late 1960s, whose condensate lines may run inside the wall and wet it wherever a fitting lets go

Water Damage Restoration services in Key West

Start from what you found - a stain, a wet floor, or a wall that will not dry. Local pros working Key West pick it up from there.

Areas covered around Key West

The rest of Florida is listed town by town.

Frequently asked questions

Why do the floorboards of a closed Key West frame house feel damp in the fall?

A closed wood frame house raised on piers lets outdoor air move freely beneath it and rise through the gaps between the floorboards into rooms with no cooling running, and about one Key West home in seven is held for seasonal use. By the fall the boards, rugs and furniture legs have taken up a summer of that air. Running the cooling for a few days before judging the floor lets it settle.

In an older Key West house, where does a ductless wall unit's water end up?

Each indoor head of a ductless system pulls water from the room's air and sends it out through a small drain line. Where one has been added to a house of the late 1960s, that line may run down inside the wall to an outlet outdoors. If it kinks, sags or slips off its fitting, the water runs into the wall cavity instead. Soft drywall or a stain below an indoor head points to its line.

What do salt wind and rain do to the porch of a Key West house?

The city's center lies about a mile from the open coast, and September's rain arrives on wind carrying salt off the water. On a raised frame house the porch floor and steps take that rain first, and where they meet the house wall, water and salt gather at the joint. Salt holds moisture from the humid air, so the boards there stay wet between storms. Keeping that joint flashed and painted protects the wall.

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A Key West leak that will not dry out?

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The call is free and binds no one

If water is still coming in, close the main shutoff, or switch the air handler off if the water is coming from it, before calling.

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