Restoration Equipment & Dehumidifier Rental
Some of our customers prefer more of a hands-on approach to their water damage restoration projects. DryHero offers CGR (commercial grade refrigerant), LGR (low grain refrigerant) and desiccant dehumidifier rentals. These are state-of-the-art, professional grade dehumidifiers that you won’t find in home improvement (i.e., Lowes or Home Depot) or contractor rental stores. These are the same commercial dehumidifiers we use in our water damage restoration business to quickly dry flooded buildings. Top-of-the line, super capacity dehumidifiers able to gulp gallons of water per day from your water damaged home or business, resulting in less water damage and improved air quality.
Perhaps best of all, you’re able to rent better quality dehumidifiers and fans (airmovers, blowers) for less money. Delivered to your door and picked up…FOR FREE! In Lincoln Nebraska Call (402) 438-2379 or if you’re in Omaha NE call 402-592-4376 or Toll Free 888-DRY-HERO (888-379-4376) for immediate service. Another added benefit is FREE delivery, setup instructions and pickup! We also rent air movers, fans, blowers and air scrubbers. These are professional grade, water damage restoration dehumidifiers and drying equipment. LGR dehumidifiers…we have them! Desiccant dehumidifiers…we have them! Need them right away…we’ll bring them right to your door, 24/7/365. We can even professionally calculate and size the amount of dehumidification you’ll need to quickly dry your project. Need help in determining if your structure is still wet? We have access to the largest inventory of water damage moisture meters and water detection instrumentation in Nebraska. If you have wet flooring, walls or ceilings, we can help find it and advise you on how to dry and minimize the potential for mold growth!
If you have a flood or water damage in Lincoln or Omaha Nebraska, your best defense against mold growth and odor is super dry air. Our dehumidifiers and fans are engineered to dry flooded and water damaged basements, office buildings, crawlspaces, schools, commercial properties, etc. These dehumidifiers are designed to dry water damaged building materials such as wet and flooded carpet, carpet pad, carpet cushion, framing, drywall, plaster, trim carpentry, oak flooring, hardwood flooring, laminate floors and concrete. If you have wet personal property, dehumidification can help dry flooded documents, furniture, clothing, beds, chairs, cabinetry and virtually anything that can absorb water.
Commercial Grade Refrigerant (CGR) Dehumidifiers
Electric refrigerant dehumidification works by passing air over refrigerated coils to condense water vapor. Often at cooler temperatures, refrigerant dehumidification capacity falls off before ideal moisture levels are reached. There are two types of refrigerant dehumidifiers, standard and conventional. The only difference between the two is that a conventional refrigerant dehumidifier uses a heat pipe or defrost cycle to defer frost from forming on the coils.
CGR dehumidifiers are designed to be moved from job to job in and out of service vehicles. The coil and compressors used are larger than residential units that are only designed for light humidity problems. CGR dehumidifiers are calibrated and designed for high moisture rich environments like flooded structures. CGR’s also use advanced defrost controls to maximize performance.
Low Grade Refrigerant (LGR) Dehumidifeirs
Professional Low Grain Refrigerant (LGR) Dehumidifiers have a tremendous advantage over traditional or conventional refrigerant dehumidifiers. LGR dehumidifiers are designed for drying flooded structures whereas traditional dehumidifiers are primarily designed for climate control. A commercial LGR dehumidifier will remove as much as ten times more moisture from the air than a residential dehumidifier.
In addition, the process (conditioned output) from an LGR dehumidifier is much drier air. Therefore, the process air may contain as little as half as much moisture as that of a traditional dehumidifier. That’s important. The drier the air, the faster wet building materials dry out. LGR dehumidifiers are the workhorses of our structure drying efforts.
DryHero (Disaster Restoration Systems) only uses LGR refrigerant dehumidifiers…only the best!
Desiccant Dehumidifeirs
Desiccant (often misspelled dessicant) dehumidifiers work on an entirely different principle than refrigerant dehumidifiers. They use a highly absorbent silica “desiccant” to remove moisture from even the driest air. A desiccant dehumidifier will continue to remove water from the air long after even the best LGR dehumidifier has reached its design limitations.
As a result, desiccant dehumidifiers are utilized in situations where dense building materials are water damaged. Hardwood floors, concrete, plaster, crawlspaces and many other difficult drying conditions can be dried with the proper application of desiccant dehumidification.
Air Movers, Fans & Carpet Blowers
Air flow is the backbone of any drying project. We offer both laminar, centrifugal and axial air movers. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and most water damage restoration projects require both types for maximum structure drying performance. Air flow speeds the structure drying process by disrupting the boundary layers of air; extremely thin layers of stagnant air that inhibit the structure drying process. They have the net effect of insulating the wet materials from the dry air, slowing evaporation. An added benefit of rapid air flow is that it helps to retard mold growth.
So how many air movers will your water damage project require? The short answer is: more than you’d think! The IICRC S500 Standard recommends that one air mover be used for every 10-16 lineal feet of wet wall. (Example, a water damaged 10’ x 10’ room would require 3 - 4 air movers for optimum structural drying. Just as imporant as the number of fans is their capacity to move air. Professional drying fans easily move 3,000 cubic feet per minute (cfm). Compare that to the average Home Depot or Lowes box fan that moves 150 - 400 cfm. That same 10’ x 10’ room in our example could require as many as 30 box fans to generate the same volume of air flow as 3 of our professional duty fans.
HEPA Air Scrubbers & Negative Air Machines
HEPA (highly efficient particulate air) air scrubbers are used whenever there are environmental or air quality concerns. Mold remediation projects require HEPA air scrubbers and negative air machines during the mold removal and cleaning process to minimize the potential of cross contamination to unaffected or uncontaminated portions of a water damaged structure.
Our HEPA air scrubbers are routinely decontaminated and have the filters replaced after every project. We can also provide ducting and setup instructions for all of our HEPA scrubbers and negative air machines.
Indirect Fired Heaters
DryHero has an inventory of both direct and indirect fired heaters. Indirect fired heaters provide dry, clean, heated air for all types of applications including temporary heat, structure drying, concrete drying, event heating, new construction drying, crawl space drying, basement drying and more. If warm, clean air is what you need, DryHero has the indirect fired heating solution for you.
Deflooding & Water Removal Pumps
DryHero has high capacity deflooding and water removal pumps for all types of water damage restoration and flood damage repair situations. We have gas powered trash pumps as well as electric submersible pumps to quickly yet safely remove standing water or sewage from basements, crawlspaces, elevator shafts and virtually any flooded structure or building with standing water that requires pumping and extraction.
DryHero also can provide you with instructions, discharge hoses, extension cords, generators and temporary power distrubution panels, even free pickup and delivery, right to your door!