Serving Yulee
Humidity & Moisture Drying Yulee, 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.
Wet days later? That is worth a call
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
Where should the air conditioner's water go under a Yulee manufactured home?
Outside the skirting, well away from the home. About one home in five in Yulee is manufactured, and where the condensate line simply ends under the floor, each day of cooling pours water onto the ground beneath. On ground this low it has nowhere to go, and the air inside the skirting stays wet against the ducts and floor. Extending the line past the skirting fixes it.
Why can a Yulee drain field stop taking water by September?
By September, ground only about 4 feet above sea level has taken months of summer rain, and a drain field in that soil may accept little more. Yulee has some 3,300 homes with septic systems on record, and in each the household water then backs toward the lowest drain. Holding off on laundry and long showers for a few dry days lets the field catch up.
Why does water collect at the edge of a newer Yulee house's slab?
Where a house of the 2000s sits on a slab set close to the level of the yard, on ground about 4 feet above sea level, rain that stands on the lot reaches the slab edge quickly. Block and concrete draw it in, and the bottom plate of the walls and the baseboards inside are where it shows. Grading the yard to fall away from the house helps most.
For the figures behind these answers, see Yulee.