Serving Decatur
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Decatur, IL
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 lake is a drinking-water reservoir. How does it wet a basement?
It is also a dam on the Sangamon. Holding the river high for supply holds the table high on the flats. A 1960 basement is a hole in that table, and May rain then has no unused room. A reservoir is a water-supply story and a groundwater story at once.
Springfield and Bloomington are also prairie towns. Why is a dammed Sangamon different?
Those cities sit on prairie creeks without this reservoir. Decatur's May job is a dammed river and mill flats. Similar May totals; the lake is the local mechanism the others do not have, and a basement on those flats is a hole in a held-up table.
The ranch is up on the grade. Is the lake still the job?
Not as a table. The grade perches May rain in silt with almost no fall, so the basement is a hole in that perched layer. The lake is the flats. One address is a soil problem and the other is a reservoir problem.