Serving Durham
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Durham, NC
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 North Carolina.
Frequently asked questions
How is this clay different from ordinary Piedmont soil?
It sits in a rift filled with fine sediment, so it behaves more like a pan than like saprolite. Water perches on it instead of moving down through weathered rock. A September storm that a rolling Piedmont lot would shed leaves a basin lot wet at foundation depth for days.
September rather than summer. Does that change the failure?
It stacks tropical rain on soil that is already warm and biologically active. Crawlspaces that took a humid summer then take a wetting they cannot evaporate, and the colony has a head start. A July thunderstorm is shorter; a September remnant can rain for a day.
The new side of town is on slabs. Is that the dry side?
It is the hidden-leak side. Slabs on Triassic clay do not flood from below as often as crawlspaces, but a supply-line failure spreads sideways under the floor and shows late. The clay that perches rain also perches a plumbing leak.