Serving Orange Park
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Orange Park, 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
What is behind a stain on the hallway ceiling of an older Orange Park house?
A pan beneath an attic air handler catches the coil's water and any overflow, and in a house of the mid-1970s with the unit above the hallway, an original pan of that age may have rusted thin at the corners, where water sits longest. Once it pinholes, the water goes straight into the ceiling. A rust-stained pan or a ring on the ceiling under the unit is the sign.
Why does an attic air handler in Orange Park drip outside its pan?
In June the attic air is as humid as the outdoors, and the air handler's metal cabinet and the cold refrigerant line entering it run colder than that air. Where the cabinet's insulation has come loose or the line's foam sleeve stops short, they sweat, and the water runs off beside the pan rather than into it, onto the platform and ceiling. Wrapping those cold surfaces keeps the water where the pan can catch it.
Where do the condensate lines from upper apartments in Orange Park drain?
An upper unit's condensate line run out to empty onto the roof of the floor below puts water on one spot of that roof every day the cooling runs, and about one Orange Park home in seven is in a building of ten or more units. The roofing there stays wet through the summer and wears fastest. A line carried to a gutter or down to the ground keeps the roof dry.
Orange Park's own page carries them beside the local figures.