Case Study #1
Commercial Property Loss:
Type of Business: Commercial Offices/Showroom
Specialized Cleaning & Restoration SAVES: estimated $75,000-$100,000
This commercial building lost heat in the middle of winter and therefore had several broken pipes throughout the building, fully saturating the structure.
Area affected included main floor and upstairs equaling 14,000sf or 140,000 cubic feet.
The effected building materials included,
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Flooring: Cement, ceramic tile, asbestos tile, glued down carpet, wood subfloor. |
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Walls: Paneling, drywall, block. |
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Ceilings: 40+ year old plaster, ceiling tile.
Hazardous Materials: Asbestos tile, asbestos ceiling, asbestos pipe wrap. |
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Built In: Cabinetry |
At the start of the job, hazardous materials were visually identified. Knowing the cost of the asbestos remediation it was of the utmost concern to dry down these materials with out disturbing them and without creating Indoor Air Quality issues. Indoor Air Quality and thinking green have both been added to the restoration industries priority list.
Using Dryvection™ technology (use outside air, rather than recycled air, to dry flooded buildings and their contents) Specialized was able to fully dry the structure in 4 days. Building materials were saved rather than destroyed and contents were dried in place.
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Case Study #2
Commercial Property Loss:
Type of Business: Building of higher education – Classrooms, Offices.
Specialized Cleaning & Restoration Inc. SAVES: $35,000 to $50,000
This water loss occurred due to an uncapped eight inch water main that ran for about an hour and half, flooding 20,500sf of the commercial building. Water was an average of one inch deep throughout the first floor of the building. Walls has moisture wicked up four to sixteen inches high. The structure had ten foot ceilings (205,000 cubic feet) and was completely finished and furnished.
The effected building materials included:
Flooring: Cement, glued down carpet, ceramic tile.
Walls: Drywall, ceramic tile.
Build In: Cabinetry.
Specialized was on location fifteen minutes after the initial phone call to evaluate the damage and had began water extraction just forty five minutes after the initial call.
Using Dryvection™ technology (use outside air, rather than recycled air, to dry flooded buildings and their contents) Specialized was able to fully dry the structure in 4 days. Building materials were saved rather than destroyed and contents were dried in place.
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Case Study #3
Residential Property Loss:
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Specialized Cleaning & Restoration Inc. SAVES: over $25,000
This residential home lost heat during an extremely cold weather stretch and in result had over twenty broken pipes. The carpet and pad throughout the entire house was extreme extracted and saved. The carpet and pad were both dry in less than 36 hours. |
Using Dryvection™ technology (use outside air, rather than recycled air, to dry flooded buildings and their contents) Specialized was able to fully dry the structure in 4 days. Building materials were saved rather than destroyed and contents were dried in place.
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This infrared picture is the ceiling directly under the kitchen. We were able to totally dry down the racetrack ceiling, sub floor and walls without any demolition or removing the kitchen cabinets. This saved the homeowner considerable time and the insurance company thousands of dollars. |
Points of interest from this residential job include:
Race track ceilings were located in the basement outer edge of the ceilings. This race track ceiling was approximately 2” thick. With the science of the specialty drying, the entire ceiling was dried in four days needing only minimal patching and repairs. |
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With Dryvection™ technology and specialty drying, Specialized was able to save the homeowner and insurance company a large amount of time and money. Whenever materials are savable it helps everyone from a green standpoint helping our environment by not filling the landfills.
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