Serving West Des Moines
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in West Des Moines, IA
Commercial air movers and low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers pull moisture out of the structure, with daily moisture-meter readings logged for your insurer. Structural drying brings building materials back to a documented dry standard using air movers and dehumidifiers rather than surface evaporation alone. Moisture readings are logged through the process so the substrate, not just the surface, is confirmed dry before anything is rebuilt.
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Frequently asked questions
The Raccoon is channelized. Does that take the 1993 problem off the table?
At the watershed scale it helps. At Valley Junction a June cell still meets a river that can be high, and mill-era basements on those flats were not built to a channelized standard. Channelizing moves the crest. It does not lift the floor.
The house is a 1990s tract toward Waukee. Is the Raccoon still the issue?
No. Jordan Creek and the loess are. That ground pipes water along contacts the grading cut through, and a window well on the downhill side of a loess lot can fill with no river involved. Des Moines' story is two rivers and 1961 basements. This lot is a creek and a young cut.
Why would a new basement on loess wet when the old one on the flats does not, in the same storm?
Because they fail differently. The flats take the river. The loess takes piping along a cut the 1990s made and have not yet settled into. Same June cell, two mechanisms. Comparing the two houses as if they shared a soil is how the wrong fix gets sold.