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Before anything else: the source of the water, and how far it reached.

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

West Palm Beach: why buildings stay damp

Across El Cid and Old Northwood and the rest of West Palm Beach, a building still wet days after a leak is one phone call from a local pro. El Cid's houses, mostly built 1921 to 1930 beside Lake Worth's west shore, are generally wood frame or clay tile under stucco.

The housing, by era

The median home in West Palm Beach was built in 1988, with 54 percent standing before 1990; when a house went up tends to decide where its air handler sits and how far its ducts run through attic heat. Nearly two in five homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, and where a tower's stairwells and elevator shafts open onto an open-air parking level, the humid garage air rises through them into the cooled corridors, leaving water on the cold lobby glass and tile.

Humid months and wet months

The normal dewpoint in West Palm Beach stays at or above 70 degrees around the clock from June through September, reaching 75.5 in August; August is the wettest month, with 8.68 of 61.75 inches, both figures recorded at WEST PALM BEACH INTL AP, 4.5 miles away. August's storms test the stucco on El Cid's 1920s houses: where it has cracked over hollow clay tile, rain runs into the tile's open cells and stays there, and the wall gives it back only slowly to air that is nearly as wet.

The soft spots here

  • Stairwells and elevator shafts open to an open-air parking level, in buildings of ten or more units that hold nearly two in five homes, carrying humid garage air up into cooled corridors
  • Stucco cracked over hollow clay tile walls in El Cid's 1920s houses, where rain fills the tile's open cells and lingers
  • Stucco over wood frame on El Cid's other houses, where a crack lets rain reach the lath and framing and holds it against the wood

Water Damage Restoration services in West Palm Beach

Each card below is a different source of water. Local pros in West Palm Beach handle calls about any of them.

Areas covered around West Palm Beach

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Frequently asked questions

How does damp garage air reach the corridors of a West Palm Beach tower?

Through the stairwells and elevator shafts. Nearly two in five West Palm Beach homes are in buildings of ten or more units. Where a tower sits over an open-air parking level and a stair door is propped or a shaft opens to the garage, humid air from the parking level rises through it into the cooled floors above and leaves its water on the corridor's cold glass, tile and walls.

What is inside the walls of an El Cid house in West Palm Beach?

Usually wood frame or clay tile, finished with stucco, the district's National Register nomination says. Clay tile here means hollow fired-clay blocks, and where the stucco over them cracks, rain runs into the open cells and pools there. Because the August air is nearly as wet as the wall, that water leaves very slowly, keeping the inside face of the wall damp long after a storm.

Why does a crack in the stucco matter more on a frame house in El Cid?

Because the stucco is the wall's only rain shield. On a wood frame house finished in stucco, a crack lets water reach the lath and the framing behind it, and wood holds that water rather than shedding it. In the humid months it has little chance to leave, so a hairline crack left open through August can keep the framing wet into the fall.

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