Heat Drying Materials Only;

Heating the materials is done by simply tenting or building a drying chamber and directing the heated air into and against the wet materials. These are techniques and are not limited to one system or another. Since everyone has an air-mover, everyone can do the same thing including floating the carpet and pressurized focus drying. The ELE 6400 already comes with a built-in lower volume fan increasing your temperatures at the wet surface, thus, increasing the vapor pressure differential even more.

Just remember when using a larger air-mover your heat will decrease significantly resulting in lower vapor pressure differentials. Condensation inside walls is not easily detected and has occurred using this technique.

Be careful when not using the ELE 6400 as some systems have no thermostat control at the materials. This can lead to overheating of the materials or the unit causing potentially catastrophic results. Check with your liability insurer to determine if using heaters without thermostats, on the unit, is covered in the event of failure.

Drying Only Materials (Focus Drying)

Compared To Drying Whole Area

Heat drying the whole Area;

Heat drying a whole area is the most popular technique of heat drying for larger areas.  Again heat drying a whole area is not limited to one type of drying system as any heat based drying system can do this. It is simply a technique. In many cases there can be wet areas that are missed with the initial inspection. This method will dry all areas whether you found them or not.

Best usage of this method is to blow heated air in from the outside of the building creating positive pressure and heating all materials. This will dry all materials faster and reduce the chance of condensation within the building.

Ventilate the hot air using an air-mover and lay-flat rolled ducting to the outside of the building. A modest 2000 cfm Heat Drying System can exchange the air volume in a 2500sf building with 9’ ceilings once every 11 ¼ minutes. The energy of the heated air will dry the materials in the drying area faster and can reduce secondary damage up to 75%.

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