How Can You Quickly Dry Wall Cavities After Water Damage Toronto?

How Can You Quickly Dry Wall Cavities After Water Damage Toronto?

Water damage can leave your home in a complete mess and the damage can be extensive especially that is caused due to storms, flooding, or burst pipes in a home. Walls and floors are worst affected due to standing water and you need to find out a way to immediately drywall cavities and other small spaces to fulfill the restoration process and quickly fix issues caused by water damage Toronto.

It is an established fact that trapped moisture within the wall cavity can cause rapid growth of mold, bacteria and, mildew and also damage to structural integrity. Apart from that secondary damages such as microbial growth on the paper surface of gypsum wallboard if remains wet for long periods should also be considered while restoring the water damage.

Drying Wall Cavities When the walls are wet they can pose a challenge to the professionals carrying out water damage restoration. Since walls are mostly covered by laminations and variety of finished surfaces, picking up the ideal drying technique becomes difficult.

For drying the walls with a single layer of flat paint and wallboard, you can use an air mover to blow dry and warm air along its wall surface. For the walls with vinyl wallpaper cover or high-gloss enamel paint or walls with multiple layers of wallboard, holes are required to be drilled in the wall so that the air flow is allowed into the cavity.

Once the airflow starts in the cavity, it increases the rate of evaporation that speeds up drying. You can increase drying and evaporation efforts further by using air movers blowing into the wall along with a dehumidifier or keeping the wall surfaces in contact with direct heat.

To avoid extensive repairs, you must remove the baseboards and drill into the wall at the floor level.

Prior to removing the base, you can use a pencil to draw a light line at the top of the base. After that, remove the baseboard and drill holes past the faint pencil line. It will make repairs much easier. Once the base is reset or replaced, the holes will be automatically covered by the baseboards.