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AC Leaks and Storm Water

Water Damage Restoration Opa-locka, FL

Opa-locka 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 Opa-locka buildings wet

Water damage restoration across Opa-locka is handled by local pros working the area, whether the water came from the cooling system, a pipe or the weather. Bernhardt Muller's 1920s Opa-locka houses reworked the flat-roofed, stuccoed concrete block bungalow of the land boom, dressed with domes, minarets and crenelated parapets.

The age of the buildings

1969 is the median build year in Opa-locka, and 71.7 percent of the stock went up before 1990, an age that tends to settle whether the ductwork runs overhead through the attic or below the floor. In a ground-floor apartment of the late 1960s that keeps its terrazzo floor, the stone holds the slab's coolness, so humid air let in through an open door beads on it like a cold glass, and the floor near the door turns slick.

The humid season

Opa-locka spends four months in which the dewpoint never falls below 70 degrees, day or night, from June through September; of 62.65 inches in a normal year, 8.92 fall in June, rain recorded 1.6 miles away and dewpoint 8.5 miles away. Through the rainy months the rough, textured stucco on Opa-locka's Moorish Revival buildings holds each storm's water in its surface, and the concrete block behind it, once soaked, gives that water back only slowly to air already carrying all it can.

Where water settles in Opa-locka

  • Rough-textured stucco over concrete block on the 1920s Moorish Revival buildings, holding rainy-season water in the surface and the block behind it
  • Terrazzo floors on ground-floor slabs in apartment buildings of the late 1960s, more than two in five homes here, beading with water when humid air comes through an open door
  • Wooden casement windows set in stuccoed block walls, whose painted sash and sill take up the rainy season's water and swell until the sash no longer closes tight

Water Damage Restoration services in Opa-locka

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

Areas covered around Opa-locka

More Florida towns are on the locations page.

Frequently asked questions

What were Opa-locka's first houses built of?

Concrete block with a stucco finish. The National Register nomination for the city's Moorish Revival buildings describes Bernhardt Muller's houses of the 1920s as a reworking of the flat-roofed concrete block bungalow of the land boom, dressed with domes, minarets, crenelated parapets and rough textured stucco. Block and textured stucco both take up rain, so those walls stay wet longest after a storm.

Why does the terrazzo floor of a ground-floor Opa-locka apartment get slick in summer?

Because it is colder than the air. More than two in five Opa-locka homes are in buildings of ten or more units, many from the late 1960s, and terrazzo laid on a ground-floor slab holds the concrete's coolness. When humid outdoor air comes in through an open door or window, it beads on that cool stone the way it does on a cold glass, leaving a film of water.

Why do the wooden casement windows on an old Opa-locka building stick in the rainy season?

The wood has taken up water. The 1920s buildings were fitted with wooden casement windows set into stuccoed block walls. Where the paint on the sash and sill has worn, rain soaks the wood, and in the humid months it cannot dry out, so it swells against the frame. A sash that no longer closes tight then lets the wet outdoor air in around it.

Opa-locka, FL

A Opa-locka leak that will not dry out?

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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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