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Still Wet Days Later

Water Damage Restoration Port St. Lucie, FL

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A stained ceiling, a damp wall, and one question: what is feeding it?

Why a Florida building stays wet: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

Damp buildings in Port St. Lucie

Across St. Lucie West and Tradition and the rest of Port St. Lucie, a building still wet days after a leak is one phone call from a local pro. Some 17,650 Port St. Lucie homes have septic systems on record, each drain field relying on ground the June rains leave with little room.

What the homes date from

2002 is the median build year in Port St. Lucie, and 28.4 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. Where a house of the 2000s has concrete block outer walls with drywall fastened to furring strips inside, rain that works through the block in the wet months reaches a thin air space whose inner face the cooling keeps cold, and the water settles there.

The months that matter

June is the wettest month in Port St. Lucie, with 8.25 of 60.06 inches, and it falls inside the stretch, from June through September, when the normal dewpoint holds at 70 or above, peaking at 75.5 in August; rain recorded at TRADITION 5.6 W 3.6 miles away and dewpoint 44.8 miles away. With some 17,650 homes on septic systems on record, a run of June storms leaves thousands of drain fields in ground about 23 feet above sea level that has had no chance to drain between one downpour and the next.

The usual sources here

  • Drain fields that stop taking household water after several wet days in a row, at any of some 17,650 homes with septic systems on record
  • Block walls finished inside with drywall on furring strips, where rain through the block meets a cold inner face and wets the strips and the back of the drywall
  • Ground about 23 feet above sea level and some 10 miles from the open coast, where yards hold the summer's rain against slab edges between storms

Water Damage Restoration services in Port St. Lucie

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Frequently asked questions

Why does the drywall on an outside wall of a Port St. Lucie block house feel damp?

Where a house of the 2000s has concrete block walls with drywall on furring strips inside, there is a thin air space between the block and the drywall. Rain that soaks into the block in the wet months reaches that space, and the drywall's back, kept cold by the cooling, is where it condenses and settles. Baseboards and outlet boxes on that wall show it first.

What does a stormy June do to a Port St. Lucie septic system?

Storms that arrive day after day in June leave the soil around a drain field no time to drain between them, and the field stops accepting water. Across Port St. Lucie, on ground about 23 feet above sea level, some 17,650 homes have septic systems on record, and in any of them the household's water then rises back toward the lowest drain. A slow tub or gurgling toilet is the early sign.

Should a Port St. Lucie homeowner open the windows on a cool summer morning?

Usually not. Even a cool June morning here carries more water than the air the cooling has dried indoors, and opened windows let it reach the cold inner faces of block walls, the back of drywall and furniture against outside walls, where it condenses. Keeping the house closed and letting the cooling run keeps the indoor air drier than those surfaces.

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