Recently, I had an insurance adjuster to tell me that his company is not long pay for an extra large dehumidifier, on residential jobs. They kind of made me mad at first and then I put a pencil to it and realized that if you size your dehumidifiers correctly to the job then this particular insurance company will end up paying you more money on every claim.
Let 's say a thing a 2000 sf. Home with 10 foot ceilings as our example. Let' s say the home is two stories and the water comes from the (This is according to the Dehumidification Chart, available in water restoration schools). First First I need need 500 pints of dehumidification to be able to effectively control the moisture to dry the structure. The let for # 434 pints per day. So that means I was need 3.4965034 dehumidifiers. Since we always round then then I would need 4 to dry this house. The cost for four XL Dehumidifiers in Xactimate would be $ 417.16 per day. That is $ 104.29 per unit.
Those six dehumidifiers would cost $ 76.41 per day or a total cost of $ 458.46 per day for all six.
This is a 70 pint per day dehumidifier, which is half of the XL Dehumidifier. The cost of 8 of these dehumidifiers would be $ 611.28 per day.
The medium unit pulls 6.1 amps per unit or 36.6 amps for the 6 that would be Seeing as we are already strapped for electricity on most larger jobs it would not be a good deal for me to buy and use inferior and This is the most efficient use for bathroom. I would make more money, in the short term, if I could get all the equipment needed plugged in to the house, but that might be difficult.
Most restoration companies are counting on the fact that most restoration companies will not put in the correct number of smaller units so they will save money. Of course the house may not be dry quickly or there may be secondary damage, longer dry times, and unhappy customers. This is actually end up costing the insurance company more in the long run.
This is will not need will more electricity to run more electricity to run all these extra machines. This too will end up making jobs cost more due to the rental of electric spider boxes or dryer plug converters or electricians to wire in more electricity than a breaker box or a generator.
My thought when I was buying the equipment was, what equipment lets me dry the most jobs, most efficiently, I have also prefer to prefer to take daily readings on 4 dehumidifiers rather than 8 dehumidifiers.
Start requiring to see how they do not have small or medium dehumidifiers to the whole house. Start requiring to see their daily humidity charts which show that specific humidity of the outside, unaffected areas, dehumidifiers, and HVAC. how a company is checking a job daily and understands how to read their humidity charts then this would lower their cost per job because they can dry more efficiently.
So, to me, it seems the other of the insurance company will cause the restoration industry to go back to requiring the use of the most inefficient equipment or they can push the industry forward and create more savings for themselves while encouraging the use of the most efficient In the mean time, I will be sizing my dehumidifiers correctly to every job and making more money.
