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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDrying 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.
Read MoreFix it Industries attending a water damage from a busted hot water hose in the kitchen obtaining a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius and the Relative humidity down to 20%. Setting up 3 x Drymatic Heat Boost Boxes and a Drymatic II and Drymatic Mats drying 43 square metres of floor in a 7 days period.
Read MoreMcArdle'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.
Read MoreSuperior Cleaning and restoration services were called out to a medical centre that had a leak from the ceiling and wet 2 areas of the carpet and timber subfloor.
Read MoreWater Damage Network were called out to structurally dry 3 town house apartments built side. the first apartment where the busted pipe upstairs bathroom burst and wet each of the apartments.
Read MoreJob of the Month July Southern Downs Cleaning and Restoration
A house at Warwick in Queensland a busted pipe going to the fridge
Flooded floating in the living, kitchen, dinning, hallway, entrance and office
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