Initially, water damage restoration & repair was performed by carpet cleaning companies. Their focus was on drying the carpet. The average residential job took 5 - 6 days to dry and restore. Specialized tools and training was first introduced to the industry in the late 1970’s. There was little concern about mildew at that time. It was believed that if we sprayed bleach mold and mildew wouldn't be a problem.
Carpet Cleaners had the water extraction tools they used to steam clean carpets. It was natural for them to take on water extraction and thus water damage restoration projects. The gear was manufactured to dry carpet since that was the primary focus of the carpet cleaning companies.
Previous strategies concerned inserting air movers underneath the carpet, allowing it to float on a cushion of air. With one air mover each 200 to 250 square feet, it was an intensive, high-electrical energy consuming process that took quite a while to complete.
Immediately, air movers sit on prime of the carpet and face the wall at a 45-diploma angle to unfold the air motion around. An air mover is placed every 12 to sixteen linear feet, that means a ten-foot by 12-foot room requires four air movers where two sub-carpet models would have been used with the old system. More tools is important, but they each use less electrical energy and complete the drying course of in a a lot shorter time.
The important thing to stopping these conditions is with low-grain refrigerant dehumidifiers, which take away more moisture from the air than other methods. It’s an usually missed however essential a part of speedy structural drying.
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