Serving Stuart
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Stuart, 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.
Switch off the air handler if it is dripping
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 drips from the corridor ceiling of a Stuart condo building on a dry day?
Often the cold water main. Nearly two in five Stuart homes are in buildings of ten or more units, and the main supplying them may run through the corridor ceiling. Where the corridor is open to outdoor air and the pipe's insulation has a gap, humid air reaches the cold metal, water forms on it and drips onto the ceiling below. Closing the gaps in the pipe's insulation ends it.
Should towels be left against the slider of a Stuart seasonal home?
Not for the whole summer. About one Stuart home in six is held for seasonal use, and towels rolled against a sliding door's sill to stop wind-driven rain soak up the first storm and stay wet. Held against the sill and the bottom of the track for months, that water works into the frame and the floor beside it. Clear weep slots in the track do the job better.
Where does Stuart keep its stormwater?
Much of it in the ground. The city holds rain back within each watershed using retention areas and weirs, and its projects store far more stormwater in the ground, at the top of the water table, than in surface waters. Near those areas the soil stays wet through the wet season, so a slab or ground-floor unit beside one sits over damper ground.
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