Desk Jockey
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Saturday we had a call from a facilities manager that we do emergency work for here in town. He had a loss at one of his facilities 2-hours from us but thought he had it handled. He was concerned though and asked if we could go take a look Monday.
My guys found a large area had been wet from a 2-inch water main that ran for 4-hours. The construction company was overwhelmed by the size of the damage, they only had 4-airmovers and 1 large dehumidifier. They had also purchased new a wall drying system because they had heard there were wet walls.
The contractors were from two hours away also but a different direction. They called a local carpet cleaner to assist them, he extracted and removed 500 carpet tiles. He also let 4-high amp draw airmovers and a 1200 dehumidifier but between the carpet cleaner and the contractor they couldn’t keep the equipment running. They were pulling too many amps and didn't have the load spread out enough, they kept tripping breakers.
We scanned the area with a thermal camera and found all lower walls were wet. Some ceilings and area that ran from ceiling to floor about 4-foot wide. We removed the wet drywall and insulation, tossed out the high amp draw stuff and both dehumidifiers and setup our equipment.
We have 30-units running (could have setup double but just not enough juice) and will reposition equipment as wet areas dry. We brought the tiles back with us and are drying them, they must have tried drying them outside on the driveway. The face of the carpet tiles was really hot but he must not have owned a moisture detector because they were all showing moisture and already had an odor.
The carpet sales people dropped by this morning and inspected the tiles and approved them for reinstall. There are a few that have glue all over them from being stacked wrong, not face to face but they have a small amount in inventory of the same style. We will clean them and deliver them back in a couple of days.
Because they pulled the tiles glue was being tracked throughout the facility and so the contractors put down paper to keep the glue tracking under control. Going to be fun for the installers removing that paper next week!
They turned what would have been a simple dry down into a major headache for themselves. I was disappointed in that they didn’t call us first but this was almost better. They got a chance to experience first-hand why they use us instead of calling someone else.
What was to be an inspection turned out to be a good job for us, although it would have been cheaper had we done the loss from start to finish, even with the travel.
Oh well it's all work!
My guys found a large area had been wet from a 2-inch water main that ran for 4-hours. The construction company was overwhelmed by the size of the damage, they only had 4-airmovers and 1 large dehumidifier. They had also purchased new a wall drying system because they had heard there were wet walls.
The contractors were from two hours away also but a different direction. They called a local carpet cleaner to assist them, he extracted and removed 500 carpet tiles. He also let 4-high amp draw airmovers and a 1200 dehumidifier but between the carpet cleaner and the contractor they couldn’t keep the equipment running. They were pulling too many amps and didn't have the load spread out enough, they kept tripping breakers.
We scanned the area with a thermal camera and found all lower walls were wet. Some ceilings and area that ran from ceiling to floor about 4-foot wide. We removed the wet drywall and insulation, tossed out the high amp draw stuff and both dehumidifiers and setup our equipment.
We have 30-units running (could have setup double but just not enough juice) and will reposition equipment as wet areas dry. We brought the tiles back with us and are drying them, they must have tried drying them outside on the driveway. The face of the carpet tiles was really hot but he must not have owned a moisture detector because they were all showing moisture and already had an odor.
The carpet sales people dropped by this morning and inspected the tiles and approved them for reinstall. There are a few that have glue all over them from being stacked wrong, not face to face but they have a small amount in inventory of the same style. We will clean them and deliver them back in a couple of days.
Because they pulled the tiles glue was being tracked throughout the facility and so the contractors put down paper to keep the glue tracking under control. Going to be fun for the installers removing that paper next week!
They turned what would have been a simple dry down into a major headache for themselves. I was disappointed in that they didn’t call us first but this was almost better. They got a chance to experience first-hand why they use us instead of calling someone else.
What was to be an inspection turned out to be a good job for us, although it would have been cheaper had we done the loss from start to finish, even with the travel.
Oh well it's all work!
J/K
