The Sciences Behind Drying Water Damage

5/22/2019 (Permalink)

Did you know there is actually a science behind the process of drying?

The knowledge of psychrometrics is essential to restoring a water damaged structure to its preloss condition. While your initial reaction may be to grab a few towels to mop up the mess, and place a fan or two around the damaged area... SERVPRO of Cedar Mill / Oak Hills is trained to the science of drying and follow strict industry approved standards to help lower the chances of any secondary damages!

If you're in Portland, or the surrounding areas and your business or personal home suffers water damage, SERVPRO of Cedar Mill / Oak Hills Franchise Professionals will:

• Inspect the building to detect every component that is wet, to help prevent secondary damage from happening.
  
  
• Measure how much moisture is in wet material and monitor whether the materials are drying properly.
  
  
• Speed up Mother Nature by using professional drying equipment.

What exactly does “speed up Mother Nature” mean?

A wet building can often dry naturally because the environment always seeks equilibrium. When materials are wet, moisture will naturally move to drier air at the surface of the material – but only if the air is indeed drier. The only problem is nature often takes too long and secondary damages may occur while the building is drying out.

For this reason, we are trained to the latest equipment to help Mother Nature along, including equipment to help dry hardwood floors, tough-to-reach spaces inside walls and much more.

SERVPRO also uses state of the art monitoring equipment and a proven scientific process to help speed the drying of your home or business.

The bottom line?

Out of anyone in the Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Cedar Mill area... We contain the training and equipment to help make it “Like it never even happened.”

We are available to help 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Give us at a call at (503) 619-6198!