July 2022 Drymatic Winners of the Month
We have two fantastic water damage jobs for the month of July 2022. First up we are going to take a look at a flood job from InTouch Projects which wins our Video of the Month as well as our Photo of the Month in a water damaged kitchen from Ultimate Cleaning and Restorations.
Dean Hall from INTOUCH PROJECTS | HERVEY BAY, QLD
Video of the month - July 2022
Our video of the month is a typical flood damaged house that’s been inundated by water from the recent Queensland floods. Before this video was recorded there was stripping and cleaning required to prepare it for the drying stage. As can be seen in the video, most of the wall linings have been stripped and gyprock has come out. This is the first step to being able to treat the timber frames of the walls from mould and contaminated water.
Mould treatment entails HEPA vacuuming and spraying Protox Hysan, which is a stabilised chlorine dioxide that has the ability to break down both live and dead mould. You spray it on, scrub it and then rinse with water. Afterwards, you mop up any excess and it oxidises over the next 24 hours.
The video itself is showing the drying process after the cleanup and mould treatment. There is a Drymatic II heat drying machine controlling the overall job, where it is heating up the area and also exhausting air out of the building. While it’s doing that there are some Drymatic Boost Bars adding extra heat into the area by increasing the temperature and raising the evaporation potential on the building materials to dry the concrete and timber faster.
There are also a couple of Husqvarna A1000 air scrubbers in this job to clean the air. The air scrubbers are changing the air at least 4 times an hour through their pre-filters and HEPA filters.
They also have a Drymatic 60Amp Power Board to get enough electricity to run all the equipment safely on this flood damage job.
Alan Bethel from ULTIMATE CLEANING & RESTORATIONS | ROCKHAMPTON, QLD
Photo of the month - July 2022
Alan has been at it again with rescuing another kitchen. We can see from the photos that the flooring has already been removed and the main areas that have been affected and target drying is being done under the kitchen carcass and along the walls.
We have an air mover blowing into a Drymatic Boost Bar which has a 4-Port adaptor connected to it. The 4-Port adaptor is feeding the heated air into a 4 x 0.5m Wall Mat to help break the boundary layer of the material.
One of the ports on the 4-Port is going into a Drymatic II Step Down Exhaust which then goes into a Drymatic II 7-Port Adaptor using some ducting between the adaptors. The 7-Port adaptor is then running injection drying pipes underneath the kitchen.
With any excess moisture that may be underneath a kitchen, there is always the possibility of mould growth which could spread further. To fix this issue there is a Husqvarna A1000 air scrubber which has a Drymatic II 7-Port adaptor attached to its inlet. Some further injection drying hoses are fed from underneath the kitchen into the Husqvarna A1000 inlet via the 7-Port adaptor.
With this fantastic setup, there is heat being injected underneath the kitchen from the Boost Bar and then the air scrubber is sucking air into itself to make sure that any contaminated air and material goes through the pre-filter and HEPA filter. This ensures clean air comes out making it a safe environment.
GREAT JOBS FROM BOTH DEAN AND ALAN!
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