Thread: whats your method on drying wood floors?

what is your method on drying wood floors.. I know this can be a wide open question but just give a few examples say on the last one or two you did?

I have read and heard great things about the Injectidry system.... would love to buy one... i fear it will set most of the year though..... wish bridgpoint rented them in lou.... they do sometimes but most of the time they do not have one in stock....

are you thinking about getting the injectidry system Jason??

We love our Injecti-Dri and use it a lot. It's invaluable for cabinet bases, walls, floors, even ceilings at times. Here's a shot of it drying a plaster over lathe wall in a historic old antique store. Ceilng took water from an ice dam and we had to remove the sheetrock that had been put over the plaster ceiling in places. We "carefully" pulled the old wainscoting off the wall to dry the plaster. No insulation in this wall as the building is only in use summers.



Aaron

All good posts here. I used all of the above when I had my business. Quick story - I dried the GA Dome just before Monday night football a few years ago. A large room where the players' wives get together during the games. It flooded Thursday night and I was called in Friday morning. Water wicked up walls 6 inches already. They wanted it dry by 6p.m. Sunday. I gave no guarantee but asked if they could get it hot in there. I used injectidry into the walls. Had to get it dry in two days and didn't own a heater at the time. I was told by mgt that they would heat the room to at least 90. On Saturday, not only was it 70 degrees, but 4 of 5 dehus were turned off!!! Yes it was a big room - cubic feet called for 5 LGR's. The manager was furious. We discussed options. The electrical people ended up hard wiring one of those heaters they used back in the 70's to keep the players warm on the sidelines. On Sunday it was 120 degrees in there and bone dry, all walls and flooring, except for under the 40 gal buckets used to catch water from dehus (no wheels). They were moved and the direct glue carpet was bone dry in 20 minutes. The best part is that when my wife was rolling a dehu from the truck to the work area, she almost knocked down presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

I once dried a laminate floor with injectidry. Well, my son did. We got to it immediately. Water hadn't seeped into seems yet. Adjuster loved it! I have those pics too, somewhere.
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I like the tenting method. I just did a 1880 house here where I live that the bathroom toilet from tank let loose. Freshwater loss two floors all hardwood. I tented everthing and ran super dry heated air under visquine and all floors dried to 9% moisture within three days. All cupping disappated and insurance was super happy since I saved them $10,000 in flooring.

yes sir! I had to tent both the floor and ceiling after taking drywall down and insulation downbut dried upper floor and lower floor just by tenting floors and bringing in a closed loop system. Worked exceptionally well. Everyone was happy