Drying Buildings Out: Hire & Service

Drying Buildings and Structures in Auckland Service

This Building drying out information is offered to you by Graeme Stephens, an IICRC certified – 2001 Master Restoration Technician.

With over 33 years of drying out timber framing, structural buildings and construction sites in South Auckland, North Shore, East, West Auckland, Hibiscus Coast, we will help you make an informed decision for drying your building home or workplace.

Large Dehumidification and blower fans can be very helpful in drying buildings out of excess water content, avoiding future black mould issues. Lowered relative humidity (RH) draws out moisture towards to dryest point, the air, from materials used with construction building framework or water damage.

For the professionals at Auckland Steam ‘n’ Dry Services Phone 0800 110 282, or email us.

Excess Moisture Content in Building Structure Materials

Auckland Steam ‘n’ Dry can do emergency Flood Damage Restoration, carpet drying service, and sanitise disinfecting where the need is required to maintain human health. We are part of the essential safety services.

In case of water damage, or excess moisture in the timber frame, the general rule is to apply dehumidification as soon as possible. As the flooded nature and extent of floodwater damage vary considerably, it is necessary to assess the right approach from timber framing buildings to the structural building.

Auckland Steam ‘n’ Dry buildings has provided structure dry out services, which includes blower hire and large capacity dehumidifier rental. Your local South Auckland, North Shore, East, West Auckland, Hibiscus Coast flood, and wood framing building dryers for over 33 years.

Necessary is how much time the water has had to penetrate the timber framing building structure, furnishings, etc. Once the air mover blower fans and industrial dehumidifiers installed, it is also essential to keep the air change as low as possible. Generally, to avoid humid air from entering the room.

Commercial Dehumidifier Rental

In case of drying out a newly constructed structural buildings, you should also keep air change low often you have to meet a deadline. It’s essential to have high capacity equipment such as Steam ‘n’ Dry Buildings Auckland giant 90 litres per day capacity like the commercial dehumidifier rentals before the Auckland Council pre-line framing moisture test inspections.

Indeed, 24/7 emergency Auckland drying out timber framing building services. For over three decades, our team of building structure dryers are at your service. This includes Graeme Stephens, who is believed the most experienced flood drying Auckland technician and is  IICRC certified as Master Restoration Technician 2001. He has been providing all forms of drying building structure out using powerful Steam ‘n’ Dry air mover blower rental and giant commercial dehumidifier hire service.

Drying Out Wood Frame Structural Buildings

Formerly construction builders’ work on an average building went on for 6-9 months. The timber framing building materials that were dried out by natural ventilation by the time the structure was dried finished. Today, however, construction timber framing building structural work is very efficient and much faster. Dehumidification is required to remove the excess water in the various building materials before the Auckland Council pre-line building moisture test inspection and before the building can be safely re-occupied. Steam ‘n’ Dry Buildings Auckland has provided structure dry out services, which includes blower hire and large capacity dehumidifier rental.

When selecting a dehumidifier to hire for drying out a building structure, you need to consider how much water removed and how much time you have to do it.

In some cases, estimating the water content in the wooden framing building materials, are taken from the tables below. Please note it all comes down to the specific building materials used for framing, and if applicable, walls, floors, also roofs. The water content of various structural building materials differs so much that a simple rule of thumb is unworkable.

Drying Buildings Out Theory

The water content of different building materials (kg/m3)

In this above example, Auckland Steam ‘n’ Dry want to calculate the dehumidification required to effectively dry out excess water moisture from the structures of a newly constructed building in 30 days. The building is 2.8 m high, 8 m wide and 18 m long. The floor, however, to be dried out as from 120 mm thick concrete.

The building volume information:

The calculation:

Concrete volume for dehumidification:
18 x 8 * 0.12 = 17.28 m3

Water content in the concrete floor:
17.28 x 48 kg water/m3 = 829.44  kg water

We need to remove 829228 Litres of water in 30 days:
Water 829.44 @ 30 days = 27.64 Litres per 24 hours

We need a dehumidification capacity of 27.64 L/24 hours.

Recommendation:

30 Day building structural drying out. Steam ‘n’ Dry (SND) 80. Capacity: 1.40 litre/hour at 20°C @ 50% RH. One SND 80 will remove 32.8 L/24 hours. M that one SND 80 units dehumidifier rental should do the job in 30 days.

7 Day building drying out. (SND) 80. Capacity: 1.40 litre/hour at 20°C @ 50% RH. One SND 80 will remove 32.8 L/24 hours. M that four SND 80 units dehumidifier hire should do the job in 7 days.

The flood drying process is the quickest in the beginning, as the water moisture content is high when you start the drying process. Then when the RH-value decreases, the overall dehumidification capacity will also decrease. Since 1987 Steam ‘n’ Dry Buildings Auckland has provided structural building drying services, which includes blower rental and significant capacity dehumidifier hire. Be ready for the Auckland Council pre-line building moisture test inspection local branches in South Auckland, North Shore, East, West Auckland, Hibiscus Coast flood, and wood framing building dryers for over 32 years.

Drying Building Process

When dehumidification is utilised to dry out buildings structure and materials, the dehumidifier runs continuously. The relative humidity slowly lowered, allowing further evaporation from the damp wooden framing building structures materials in the room. The amount of evaporation performance depends on the room, the elements, and the humidity in the air.

An advantage of condense moisture drying is that the drying method is stable if time is not the primary dehumidification method process by maintaining a permanent condition of 20°C and approximately 40% RH in the room.

Add artificial heat if necessary, but remember forcing the drying process might be harmful. There is a risk of surface drying and cavitation, with only surfaces dried, whereas a lot of humidity remains within cavities inside the wall.

Drying Buildings Advice

Remember to seal the room or wooden frame building properly when it is empty. Also, remember to avoid pre-dried materials absorbing water because of open windows.

In most cases, the humidity is in areas where water is from external sources such as rain before the building roof goes on or the building framing is sealed off or the construction work is going on.

The dehumidifiers installation should be at these positions where they can do the most good.

Call the building drying experts Steam ‘n’ Dry Auckland since 1987 has provided building wooden frame drying services, which includes blower rental, and significant capacity dehumidifier hire. Local branches in South Auckland, North Shore, East, West Auckland, Hibiscus Coast flood, and wood framing building dryers for over 32 years.

For the professionals at Auckland Steam ‘n’ Dry Services Phone 0800 110 282, or email us.

This advice is provided by Graeme Stephens 2001 IICRC Certified Master Restoration Technician with over 32 years of building, flood, and water damage remediation experience.

Updated: 28/11/2020