Serving Panama City
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Panama City, 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.
Wet days later? That is worth a call
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
Why does an older Panama City house feel clammy near the hall closet air handler?
In a house of the mid-1970s, the median era here, the air handler may stand in a hall closet with a louvered door that serves as the return. The coil then draws its air from the hallway, and the hallway takes in whatever leaks around the attic hatch or the door to the garage. That air arrives humid, and the coil has more water to remove than it can keep up with.
What is St. Andrews, and how does the bay reach its buildings?
St. Andrews is the historic working waterfront along St. Andrews Bay, settled in 1827 and annexed into Panama City in 1927 along with three other small towns. Where an older building there faces the water, the wall toward the bay takes rain driven off the water on a stormy day, along with salt, and that wall keeps its dampness longer than one wetted by rain alone.
How can a neighbor's leak reach a Panama City apartment?
Through the floor or the wall the two units share. Buildings of ten or more units hold roughly one home in seven in Panama City, and where units are stacked, water from an upstairs cooling drain, a shower or a washer travels down through the framing or along pipes until it reaches a ceiling or wall below, sometimes well away from where it started.
These questions also sit on the Panama City page, next to its numbers.