Choosing Air Movers to Manage Malden Water Damage

8/4/2022 (Permalink)

Let your local SERVPRO of Malden / Melrose professionals resolve your water damage problems.

Air Movers Overcome Water Damage

The focus of water recovery and cleanup is to remove as much water as possible from the structure, beginning with extraction. Drying is a critical element of the restoration process and involves tools designed to promote evaporation of surface moisture like air movers.  

What Makes Air Movers Helpful? 

When water damage in Malden homes must get dried, our professionals look to one of our inventory's most readily available tools: the air mover. This versatile equipment helps remove surface dampness and protects wet materials from irreparable harm. Some units are designed for a broad distribution of dry air, while others have a focused delivery to target a specific point on a wet surface. Types of air movers include:

• Axial 
• Centrifugal 
• Low-Profile 

Powering Through Barriers 

One of the effective and helpful abilities of air movers is overcoming cool air barriers that exist above wet materials. As the drying process begins, an invisible wall of colder temperatures surrounds the damp surface. High-velocity centrifugal air movers can force through this boundary to continue to impact the materials. 

How Can SERVPRO Increase Air Mover Production?

While air movers are the workhorse of drying in the house, there are always ways to manipulate the environment and conditions to allow these units to increase production. One method is increasing the blowers' coverage area by adding more machines into the equation. Another option is raising the temperature of the work area to allow a higher humidity volume in the air, which prevents slowing down evaporative drying processes. 

Air movers provide the most consistent and stable drying effort for water-damaged homes and businesses. Because of how widely spread standing water and moisture threats can become, the fast mitigation response of our SERVPRO of Malden / Melrose team is crucial. We can dry your home after a disaster. Call now at (781) 665-6396.