Serving Winter Garden
Humidity & Moisture Drying Winter Garden, FL
When the outdoor air is wetter than the building, opening windows adds water. Drying means a closed building and conditioned air. The building is closed to outdoor air and its air is dehumidified, because in the humid season outside air adds water. Materials are read until they match unaffected material in the same building, including inside block and slab.
Shut off the water, then pick up the phone
Often needed alongside
- AC Condensate & Drain Line Leaks
An air conditioner makes water every day it runs. When its drain clogs or its pan cracks, that water goes into the ceiling or the slab.
- Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion
Wind pushes rain sideways through window frames, stucco and the base of the wall. The roof can hold and the house still take water.
Frequently asked questions
Why do the upstairs rooms of a newer Winter Garden house feel damp?
In a two-story house cooled by one system with its thermostat downstairs, the cooling stops once the lower floor reaches its setting, while the upstairs, warmed by the roof, has had less of its air run across the coil. Those rooms keep more of the summer's water, and it settles on window frames and the walls of closets. A second thermostat, or a system with zones, dries both floors.
What kind of ground did Winter Garden's first settlers farm?
Settlers came in the 1850s for the fertile muck land bordering Lake Apopka, farming citrus and vegetables along its south shore. Muck is dark, organic soil that holds water far longer than sand. The city's center stands about 99 feet above sea level, but where a house today sits on muck near the lake, June's rain stays in the ground at the slab edge between storms.
What do cracks at the corners of the windows in a Winter Garden stucco house mean?
Stucco tends to crack in a fine diagonal line from each corner of a window opening, where the wall's movement concentrates. In a June storm, wind drives rain into those cracks, and it reaches the block or framing behind them and the joint around the window frame. Sealing the cracks with a patch compatible with the stucco, and repainting, keeps that water out of the wall.
Winter Garden's own page carries them beside the local figures.