Water Damage Structural Drying in Lismore NSW

Use of Workplace Health and Safety Equipment

Type Of Service: Water Damage Carpet drying and Structural Drying
Date of Loss: 04/05/2012
Location: Lismore, NSW

Details of Damage

• Damage Caused by high pressure fire hydrant burst
• 1000m2 of carpet in offices affected

Structural Drying Equipment Used

Extracting Large Quantities of Water

 Affected Items

• Wall bases 
• Carpet
• Underlay
• Concrete slab
• Contents

How we fixed it

• Movement of Furniture to Unaffected areas
• Extraction of Water with 2 Prochem Legend Truckmount Machines

Removal of Skirting Boards

Drilling of Holes to ventilate wall bases

RCD (Residual Current Device) Boxes

• Installation of over 70 air movers and 12 dehumidifiers to reduce humidity in drying environment
• Removal of skirting boards & Drilling of holes behind skirting board to ventilate wall bases. This will help ensure there is no mould problem in future.
• Installation of Residual Current Devices (RCD). Our drying equipment will plug into these boxes to provide a high level of protection against electrical shock



Lifting of Carpet and drying underneath

• Some carpet was lifted to provide ventilation between carpet and underlay. This was necessary in some rooms to ensure property was dried down within 3 day limit.

•  We removed cabinets from the walls and provided ventilation behind them to prevent mould growth

           

• Some rooms were top down dried. Meaning we did not have to lift the carpet to dry the underlay and concrete
  
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•  Moisture levels were monitored throughout the 3 day drying period
  
  
• Carpet were Removed in some units to increase dry down time
  
  
• Carpets were relayed by New Life technicians at completion of dry down
• Moisture tests completed to ensure the building has been dried down

Moisture Monitoring Equipment used by us

Commercial Business Interruption

• Business interruption was kept to a minimum as dry down was completed over the weekend
• We were able to dry down the carpet, concrete and walls within the 3 day limit. We were able to achieve this through our use of restorative drying techniques and understanding of psychrometry and how it affects the drying process

Why use New Life for Structural Drying

• Large stock of commercial drying equipment available including 150 air movers, 25 LGR dehumidifiers, injectidry system etc. 
• Established business of more than 10 years
• Training in restorative structural drying
• One hour response time on average. 
• Family owned and operated

Our Equipment and teams can be transported anywhere in QLD, NSW and VIC.

Service Area for Structural and Carpet Drying

• Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast,
• Structural Drying Mobile service available for NSW, QLD & VIC.
• 2 Large response vehicles

Contact us about our structural drying services at the New Life Restorations website on 1300 356 633.