Structural drying & mould remediation in Perth Yangebup - April Job of the Month.

Jonathan Kops from Spruce Up Your Home attended a flooding event where a dislodged roof tile and down into a brick cavity of a stairwell. This water then travelled along a steel girder at the base of the second story and entered into the internal structure damaging an MDF board connecting the internal first story structure to the second story structure. Water also travelled into the cavity of a second story neighbouring bedroom and leaked under the wall onto the carpet and MDF skirting board mouldings all of which required structural drying and mould remediation.

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Small Business shouldn't be a bank for Big Business!

The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) today called on the Australian Government to legislate to set a maximum payment time for big businesses to pay their small business suppliers. The ASBFEO today released findings from its Inquiry into Payment Times and Practices in Australia. The Inquiry found widespread evidence of a growing trend for Australian and multinational companies to delay and extend payments to their suppliers with typical payment times of 30 days moving out to 45, 60, 90 or 120 days.

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Drying in a Crawl Space Using Heat and Exhaust.

Drying out a crawl space under a house the soil, stone walls, beams and subfloor. Josh from Advanced Restorations in Adelaide likes to take on the difficult drying jobs. Josh set up 3 Drymatic heat drying machines 2 x Drymatic II's  and 1 x Drymatic  1. The Temperature in the drying chamber was 38 degrees and 30 relative humidity changing the air 120 times an hours dried the area in 12 days.

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Hardwood Floor Getting Aggressive with Heat Drying

McArdle's Restoration received a job that was a water ingress from the ice dispenser on the fridge in the kitchen the timber floor is a 19mm Cyprus pine on 19mm ply on concrete subfloor. They created a drying chamber in the kitchen that was able to heat the area up to 44 degrees Celsius and 15% relative humidity, with a timber floor temperature of 61.8 degrees Celsius.

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