Serving Boston
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Boston, MA
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.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in Massachusetts.
Frequently asked questions
What is an ice dam actually doing to the roof?
It is turning a shedding roof into a holding one. Heat escaping the attic melts snow higher up, the meltwater refreezes at the cold eave, and the ridge of ice that forms holds standing water behind it. Shingles are designed to shed water running down, not to sit in a pond, so it works its way under and into the ceiling below.
Is a wet triple-decker basement a structural worry or just a nuisance?
Usually neither immediately, but it is not nothing. Persistent damp at the base of a masonry wall degrades mortar and keeps joist ends wet where they bear into the foundation. The framing detail that matters most is the one hardest to see, so a damp basement is worth diagnosing rather than tolerating.
Why does a nor'easter cause leaks that ordinary rain does not?
Direction and duration. Rain driven sideways at sustained speed gets behind siding laps, around window seals and through masonry joints that shed falling rain without difficulty, and it keeps doing it for many hours. The assembly is not defective; it is being tested in an axis it was never designed for.