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Water Damage Restoration Longwood, FL

Longwood 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 Longwood buildings wet

Water in a ceiling, wall or slab anywhere in Longwood is one call away from a local restoration pro. Longwood's historic district covers roughly 190 acres, and its Inside-Outside House, shipped by schooner in 1873, wears its support studs outside.

The age of the buildings

About 4,405 of the 6,757 homes in Longwood were finished before 1990, around a median of 1983; a home's age can show in where its condensate drains and what its floor sits on. Plywood panel siding on a house of the early 1980s leaves the bottom edge of each sheet just above the ground, drinking rain splashed off the soil and wicking it up behind the paint, where the cooled wall keeps it from leaving.

The humid season

The normal dewpoint in Longwood stays at or above 70 degrees around the clock in July and August, reaching 74.4 in August; June is the wettest month, with 8.19 of 49.63 inches, both figures recorded 8.3 miles away. Some 75 feet above sea level, the city is far from any tide, and the June rain reaches its houses from the roof, the siding and the chimney, where an open fireplace damper lets humid air sink into a cooled room and settle on the hearth.

Where water settles in Longwood

  • Wood framing left exposed on the outside of old buildings like the district's Inside-Outside House, where the summer rain wets the studs directly and the humid air dries them slowly
  • Plywood panel siding on houses of the early 1980s, whose bottom edge takes up splashed rain and swells where the paint has worn away
  • Open fireplace dampers in houses of that era, letting humid outdoor air down the flue to condense on the cooled hearth and firebox

Water Damage Restoration services in Longwood

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

Areas covered around Longwood

More Florida towns are on the locations page.

Frequently asked questions

How does rain treat a building with its studs on the outside, like Longwood's Inside-Outside House?

Directly. The city describes the house, prefabricated in New England and shipped in 1873, as taking its name from support studs on the outside. Framing exposed that way meets every summer storm head on rather than sheltering behind siding, and in humid air it gives the water back slowly. Sound paint on every face of the wood is what keeps it sound.

Why is the bottom of the siding soft on an early-1980s Longwood house?

On a house of that era clad in plywood panel siding, the lowest edge of each sheet sits close to the ground. Rain splashing off the soil soaks into that end grain, and the cooled wall behind keeps it from drying inward. Over summers the edge swells and softens. Keeping soil and mulch a few inches below it helps.

Can an open fireplace damper make a Longwood living room damp?

It can. A damper left open is a hole to the outdoors, and in June the air coming down the flue holds more water than the cooled room. It settles on the hearth and the firebox, which the room has cooled, and condenses there. Closing the damper when the fireplace is not in use keeps that air out.

Longwood, FL

A Longwood 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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