Buffalo Grove Document Drying
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Most of us have folders of important documents like insurance contracts, guarantees, birth and death documents, wills, social security cards, and even identification documents. When a flood strikes your home or business, one of the most tedius tasks can be to recover those soaked documents. We have fast Flooded Basement Cleanup techniques and our team will arrive fast to help you. Floods, freezing pipes, rain or fire surpression and other disasters can leave your documents and papers all wet. Even thou you might think your documents are damaged beyond restoration, if the proper steps are taken quickly enough they can be restored 100%. Our Water Damage Restoration Contractors are highly trained in the most recent Document Drying methods and have access to the newest technology to be able to handle any job from a small home to a large corporation.
In addition, we offer the most up to date Mold Remediation and Content Cleaning services.
From documents or books to magnetic and micrographic media. It will be more cost effective to restore rather to replace.
You can reach us at 1-800 222-6815 if you are having any water, Fire Restoration, Sewage Damage Cleanup or mold problems!
Document Drying – What is that?
The very first time I encountered the word “document drying” I pictured a court in session wherein a lawyer wearing an expensive dark blue pinstripe suit, points to his defendant and says, “Your Honor, there is no solid evidence of drying document taking place in the residence of my client.” It may sound stupid and I can imagine someone right now saying “Could you be any more stupid? Doh-kyu-ment duh-ra-ying, drying a document, duh!” Honestly, I thought that it is something like or somewhat related to money laundering. Just saying it sounds mob-ish; well, for me anyway.
I sat on my computer chair and challenged my thoughts for a moment, thinking what other possible meaning it could have. As I typed the keys to spell the word, document drying, a thought popped in my mind, maybe it means to literally dry materials made of paper or similar to, such as school certificates, medical records and books. Okay, so it took me sometime to comprehend the obvious. Perhaps the reason could be because where I’m from, there is no such thing as document drying or document drying specialists. If anything gets wet, we simply put a fan in front of it or dry it out in the sun and I mean not just the term paper that my brother spilled juice on but documents like birth certificates, school diploma and baptismal certificates.
As the computer screen displays my search results, I clicked on the first site I see. It read, “…Document Reprocessors specializes in the recovery and restoration of water-damaged books, documents, magnetic and micrographic media.” According to them, they use the very latest in equipment, technology and methods to achieve consistent, superior results. Whether these documents were damaged from flood, rain, water damage from fire or a defective sprinkler, they could restore these papers back to new.
So for those who are still unfamiliar with the word, here it is, document drying means the restoration of water damaged documents, books or magnetic media with the use of special equipments and technology operated by trained professional.
There are different methods used by the restoration specialists. The five methods of document drying are; air drying, freeze drying, vacuum drying, vacuum freeze drying and dehumidification.
Air drying refers to drying under normal indoor environmental conditions. It is the most commonly used method and inexpensive too. It is ideal for damp and slightly wet documents. Drawbacks may include distorted bindings and text blocks.
Freeze drying gives satisfactory results for damp or moderately wet documents. This method places the materials in special equipments that freeze very quickly, from -10° to -40° until it dries.
Vacuum freeze drying is when vacuum is pulled and low heat is introduced. The books and documents are being dried at temperatures below 32°, these remain frozen until dry.
Another method that uses vacuum is vacuum drying, also referred as the vacuum thermal drying. The books or documents placed in this chamber may be wet or frozen. The concept is similar to vacuum freeze drying except, instead of the books and documents being frozen, this methods keeps them wet while they dry. There may be extreme distortion in books and adhesions in coated paper.
The latest document drying method is the dehumidification. Temperature and humidification are controlled by trained specialists. The advantage of this method is that the documents or books need not be transported. The equipments can be brought in the facility or area. To hasten the process, desiccant chemical may be added to the humidifiers.
So there you have it, a general idea on what document drying is all about.
