The Storm Left. The Water Didn’t.

The sun comes back out after a storm, the floor looks dry, so a property owner assumes the problem is over. I hear it all the time, “We had a little water come in, but it dried up.” That sentence gets my attention. Water can disappear from the surface while moisture is still trapped inside building materials. My moisture meter may tell a completely different story than what my eyes can see. When someone mentions water came into a property during a storm, but everything seems dry now, that would be a great referral for me. My job is to find the moisture still hiding before it has time to create a much bigger problem. The storm may have left town, but that does not mean the water left with it. I’m Lacy Loyd, Disaster Recovery Expert.