I charge for everything we do. Packout, vans, labor @$33.03 per hour regular, supervisor is like $47 per hour, boxes, drying chamber has a fixed charge per day, I think it is around $185 (I would have to check for sure), HEPA vac, etc... ELE 6400 @ $230 per day, airmovers @ $25 per day. I put Airmovers in drying chamber. I also use a
Drieaz Driforce wall drying system, we set the system outside the drying chamber and suck the air out of the drying chamber and vent out of the building. Many times you cannot get the documents from the loss until mold has started to grow. This one was a fire in which one of the arsonists died in the fire. Mold had started before we recieved the documents. The sucking air out of the building slowly with the Driforce allows us to easily maintain high temperature while venting any potential contamination outside. And then we charge storage fees the whole time the job is going. Most jobs we charge $24 per day storage.
The ELE 6400 is thermostatically controlled. You set the temperature and unit maintains temp, you don't have to use exhaust to control temperature. Makes it easy when dealing with mold or potential mold as I want to heat the materials to a minimum of 110F and keep hot until dry and my people can process the documents. Process means separate, HEPA vac, if mold spray with mold control and finish final drying, packing in labeled folder boxes. Some of the documents were in the drying chamber over 2 weeks. I find as long as we keep the temps up the mold doesn't spread through the drying process.
We also keep documents in their original order. All the documents.