Serving Largo
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Largo, 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.
Switch off the air handler if it is dripping
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
What wets the floor beside the tub in a Largo manufactured home?
Often the air under the home. Some 12,200 Largo homes are manufactured, and in many the tub's drain passes through an open cutout in the floor, reached through an access panel. That opening lets the humid air beneath the home into the space behind the tub, and in a cooled bathroom it settles as water on the tub wall and the floor beside it. Sealing the cutout stops it.
Are moisture-absorbing tubs safe to leave in a closed Largo seasonal home?
Only with care. About one Largo home in ten is held for seasonal use, and the small tubs of crystals sold to soak up damp fill with salty brine over a humid summer. Once full, they can tip or overflow onto wood shelves, cabinet floors and carpet, staining and wetting them. A tub set inside a deeper tray, or emptied partway through the season, is safer.
How does a closed Largo condo next door make a cooled one damp?
Through the shared wall. About a quarter of Largo's homes are in buildings of ten or more units. When one unit stands closed with its cooling off, its air turns hot and wet, and it leaks through outlet boxes and pipe gaps into the wall cavity it shares with a cooled neighbor, where it settles as water. Sealed outlet boxes on shared walls cut that path.
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