Serving Wimauma
Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion Wimauma, 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
Why does a new Wimauma house feel humid on mild, muggy days?
Where a new house has a fresh-air duct tied into its return, the cooling draws a steady stream of outdoor air in with the room air. On a hot afternoon the system runs long enough to dry it, but on a mild, muggy day it runs only briefly, and much of the water in that outdoor air stays in the rooms. A damper on the fresh-air duct, or a dehumidifier, handles those days.
Can steam from a bath fan get back into the attic of a new Wimauma house?
It can, where the fan's duct ends at a vent in the soffit. The exhaust leaves under the eave, right beside the intake vents that feed the attic its air, and some of it is drawn straight back up. Through August that adds shower steam to attic air already wetter than the ducts running through it. Ducting the fan through the roof or a wall sends it clear.
Can a newer lot next door send water onto a Wimauma drain field?
It can. Wimauma has 259 homes with septic systems on record, and where a neighboring lot has been built up and graded higher, its August runoff heads downhill onto the lower yard. If the drain field sits on that side, it takes the neighbor's rain on top of its own and the household's water. A swale along the property line carries that runoff past the field.
Each answer ties back to the Wimauma overview.