Serving Erie
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Erie, CO
Units times days, ending on a measured reading. The most checkable line on a water estimate, and the alternative to cutting material out. Equipment is billed per unit per day. The unit count comes from how much wet material there is and the day count comes from readings taken at marked points, compared against unaffected material in the same building. Both are countable in advance and verifiable afterwards, so this is the line on an estimate most worth asking to see broken out.
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Often needed alongside
- Emergency Water Extraction
The cheapest stage of a water loss, and the one that decides how expensive the rest of it gets. Standing water is removed before it moves into the structure.
- Ceiling Leak Damage Repair
The stain marks where water collected, not where it came in. The gap between the two is where a ceiling estimate's assumptions live.
Frequently asked questions
The basement was unfinished. Is that a cheap loss?
The structure is, and the contents may not be. A bare slab and framed walls dry quickly with few machines, so mitigation is modest. What sits on the floor is a separate matter, handled by a different process and often under a different part of a policy, so ask for contents as its own figure from the start.
How are stored contents handled?
Usually inventoried, then sorted into cleanable, restorable and lost. That work is priced by item or by the hour rather than by area, so it does not appear on the structural estimate at all. Getting the inventory started early matters more than it sounds, because the sort is easier before anything sits wet.
Why is framing still being dried when the slab reads dry?
Because bottom plates sit on the slab and wick from it. Timber in contact with a wet floor holds moisture after the surface has gone, and drywall added later over a wet plate creates a problem that is invisible until it is expensive. Ask for the plate readings specifically rather than the room average.
This FAQ belongs to the Erie page; it is repeated here.