Create a Drying Chamber

 

You can be more efficient and effective by drying the wet areas only. This is accomplished by separating the wet from dry areas of the building. Sealing vents will help greatly in not allowing heated air to escape to other parts of the home or attic. The chamber also allows most furnishings and contents to be dried on location with the surrounding structure.

The chamber can be made many ways and will vary by job. If the effected area is a single room and the damage covers the majority of the room, the room will be sealed off to form the drying chamber. Closing doors, windows, and erecting a vapor barrier, if needed, to block off any additional openings are the first steps that are taken. There can also be more than one drying chamber on the same job if it would speed up the drying process.

 

Plastic Containment:  6-10 mil plastic sheeting is used to seal off doors, HVAC vents, widow pass through, etc… Use Zip poles to hold plastic in place as needed. Be careful to use tape on painted walls that will not damage the wall. An example is to put blue painters tape on the wall and to attach the plastic to the blue tape with stickier tape. Heat will make the tape lose its stick. So depend more on the poles for physical strength of the containment.

 

 

Blanket Containment: Use a moving blanket or the like in place of plastic sheeting. This provides better heat containment that is necessary when the non-wet areas of the home will be lived in while you dry the wet areas. Again Zip poles work great.

 

Tenting: Place a plastic sheet on the floor covering the wet area. Put sand bags or weights spaced around the edges, yet on, the plastic. Blow air underneath the plastic rearranging the sand bags or weights until the plastic is evenly expanded like a bubble. This will focus the air on the wet area without blowing around in the room.

 

Tenting floor & blanket containment at door in center

 

 

 

Plastic containment with poles

Poly Tubing (Lay Flat Ducting)

The 6-10 mil sheathing needed for containment and duct tape can be bought at you local hardware store.

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