July 2011

A vacant house ran out of oil during a cold snap last winter. The fresh water line was located on top of the cement block wall in the basement. The fresh water line froze and broke filling the cement block and basement with water. So we decided to tent the floor and get heat to the glue down carpet and walls & we focused direct heat on the block wall. The customer was just amazed how fast we got them back to preexisting condition. Our staff just loves the results the E-TES gives us.

1. Can I use an ETES with dehumidifiers?
Absolutely! However, because the ETES unit is creating a faster evaporation rate on your drying job, we recommend that you use a dehumidifier with a rating of at least 92 pints a day at AHAM. Another option for removing the moist air from your environment is to exhaust the moist air outside and bring in either unaffected or outside air into your environment.

2. What happens if the GPP in the room gets high when using the ETES? Isn't a high GPP poor for drying?
Great question! With conventional drying what usually happens is that the GPP of the ambient air rises slowly, peaks, and then drops slowly until your structure is dry. When using the ETES to directly heat the wet materials, the GPP in the room will not slowly rise but skyrocket; however, the GPP will drop tremendously as well. So, basically you are turbo drying the wet material. At the end of the day, though, your structure is just as dry as with conventional drying. Directed heat drying just dries wet materials faster.

3. Bottom line is that I'm in business to make money. Why would I want to dry faster when the insurance companies are fine with paying my 3-5 day drying bill?
First let me answer a question with a question. If you could make the same amount of money in 2 days that it would take 4 days, would you be interested? Of course you would! When you are using ETES units, the adjusters really don't care how you dry a structure. They just want the file closed. To an adjuster, the bottom line is this: the longer the file is open, the more money he is spending. So here is a question you might want to ask your adjuster next time. "If you had a choice for this particular mitigation job with the price of (just as an example) $8,000 and I can dry it in 2 days or 4 days - same price, which would you choose?" They would choose two days right? But if you were going to make $8,000 on a 4-day drying job and the job were an hour away, then that means 8 hours of driving and 8 hours of labor. Why don't you just dry it in 2 days? Then you will cut your gas & labor cost by 50% (just driving back and forth to the job). Next, you will notice your PROFIT increases. Not a bad problem to have!

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