Orlando Professionals Explain Drying Goals and how They Affect Your Flood Damaged Homes

7/18/2019 (Permalink)

It's hurricane season. Are you prepared for flood damage?

Creating a Dry Goal to Ensure your Orlando Home returns to Pre-loss Condition after Flood Damage

When floodwater enters your home, it can be an extremely frustrating experience. Depending on the scale and size of your property, complete service from start to finish can take anywhere between twelve hours and a few weeks. During this time, you need a professional company you can rely on to carry out restoration services correctly. Our Water Restoration Technicians (WRT) are qualified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certifications (IICRC) body who make daily assessments of your property to ensure progress and outcomes.

Creating a "drying goal" is essential to achieving the full restoration of flood damage in your Orlando home. A drying goal brings materials in the contents and structure of your property to their natural dryness before the flood; otherwise known as returning materials to their preloss condition. SERVPRO calculate the appropriate by taking readings from contents and structure from unaffected areas of the home. Calibrating readings from the affected area with the unaffected area achieves our "dry goal."

The equipment SERVPRO use to establish our target is comprehensive. Moisture sensors and meters are used to probe contents or structure and assess how saturated materials are with water. Monitoring of relative humidity is another crucial factor in returning your home to a preloss condition, with readings taken using a thermal hygrometer. The process of drying involves adjusting evaporation, temperature, and humidity with equipment to return your home to its condition before the flood.

We pump or vacuum out large quantities of flood water using extraction units and submersible gas pumps. It is 1,200 times faster to transport water out of a property than it is to dehumidify. However, pumps are ineffective below two inches of standing water. Extraction units can also be ineffective at removing moisture that has absorbed into materials. To combat these SERVPRO technicians use drier air to increase evaporation. Desiccant dehumidifiers can reduce humidity levels to below 40 grains per pound and draw moisture from solid porous materials like woods, mattresses, and subfloor.

Returning property to a preloss condition requires careful planning and daily updates. Contact SERVPRO of West Orange at (407) 352-1569 for an emergency call out.

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