Duckpond, Pleasant Street, Micanopy, High Springs: thousands of North Central Florida homes sit on piers, and the space underneath collects water. We pump it, dry it, and help keep it dry.
Call (352) 698-7499Gainesville's older neighborhoods and the small towns around it are full of homes built up on piers, historic houses near downtown, farmhouses outside High Springs, cottages in Micanopy. That crawl space kept floors cool for a century, but it also sits at ground level in a region with a high water table, summer downpours, and humidity that rarely quits. After a heavy rain week, water ponds under the house. In August, even without ponding, ground moisture evaporates up into the framing all day long.
The symptoms show up inside: musty smell in the hallway, cupping wood floors, a bounce underfoot, and in older homes, that damp smell that never leaves. Under the house it looks like wet soil, wet piers, condensation on joists, and insulation hanging soaked between them.
Heart pine floors and hundred year old joists are exactly the materials worth saving, and they dry differently than modern lumber. We dry them gradually and monitor, instead of blasting heat and hoping. If the moisture already reached the finished floors above, our hardwood floor drying page covers saving cupped boards. If it has been wet down there a while and you smell it upstairs, mold has likely started, our mold remediation crew handles the crawl space and the living space both. One call covers all of it: (352) 698-7499.
We crawl in, pump it out, and dry it right. 24/7 across Gainesville and Alachua County.
Call (352) 698-7499