The Vortex Drying System (VDS) is a SYSTEM for drying structures. Step by step, from start to finish it covers every area involved in how a job should be done.

To better understand it's effectiveness, one must first learn it's purpose:

To completely dry the structure, regardless of class or category I, II, or III

And to dry the structure as rapidly as possible With the objective of minimizing replacement costs to the structure and contents

There are many major differences, with intricate reasons behind them, which answer the question of why it works better. But from an insurers perspective, here's how they stack up:


1. The first difference is EFFECTIVENESS.

Most companies think that if they simply put equipment on a job, that it has to dry. And while it is true that wet will always go to dry if it can, taking this approach might take a while. The VDS will COMPLETELY dry the structure... PERIOD. No matter what kind of water damage it is: Black, Gray or Clean, or how much water there is: Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 the system will be utilized on EVERY drying job to completely dry the structure.
The fact is that most companies pull their equipment off of a job with the structure still wet. Whether it is because of embarrassment, lack of training, or an inability to do the job correctly, these companies are jeopardizing the health of the homeowner and their business. The reason we have a mold problem today is because most companies in our industry have a drying problem. VDS companies have been trained to inspect all components of a structure to check for moisture, and have been educated in the best ways to dry them.
Whether it is sheetrock, flooring, sub-flooring, plaster, structural wood or crawlspaces when a VDS company pulls their equipment off the job, it will be dry.

2. The second difference is SPEED

There is a lot of talk today about "rapidly drying" structures in our industry... and for some great reasons. Companies are starting to wake up to the fact that we don't have a "mold problem," but rather a "drying problem." The fact is, the faster a structure is COMPLETELY DRIED, the better off all parties involved will be. When utilizing the Vortex Drying System, it should be possible to dry most structures in 72 hours. However, some materials take in water slower than others, and release it slower as well... so they take longer to dry. Regardless, a Vortex Company will be done while other companies are still "drying."
What you can be assured of with VDS companies is the fact that the structure: will be completely dry, as rapidly as possible, with a minimization of replacement costs to both structure and contents.

It doesn't mean that a VDS Company will never have to be invasive on a job, or that there will never be repairs. If it is necessary to make structural alterations in order to get to the water, they MUST be done. Yet, even when these events occur you still have to DRY the structure!

Where drying is concerned, on the average, the Vortex Drying System is twice as fast (two to three days faster) than conventional restorative drying methods. (At their best...)

The speed of drying is impressive, and is really what we pride ourselves in. But the most impressive thing to a homeowner in a flooded region (whose life has "returned to normal" in around three days) comes when they look around and see all the other homes in their neighborhood still in various states of disarray and repair 3 or 4 weeks LATER! Now we are talking about the VDS being WEEKS or even MONTHS faster. How often is this the case?
 

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In your business, how often do you see claims where the company goes in, dries the structure, and then there is something else that has to be done? (Painting, Repairs, Etc...) If you are thinking somewhere between 85% - 100% of the time, you are on average. You may not believe this, but it is absolutely true: In our personal business, utilizing the Vortex Drying System, ON 72% OF THE JOBS WE DO, WE DRY THE STRUCTURE, AND THERE IS NO OTHER WORK TO BE DONE! The structure is dry, the file is closed, and the homeowner's life has returned to normal... PERIOD. END OF STORY! NOW THAT'S SPEED!

The reason for this discrepancy is three-fold:

	1. Superior Equipment - The best and most efficient the industry has to offer
	2. Superior Techniques a. The Drying Chamber - Setting up the affected environment for optimum drying b. Monitoring & Psychrometrics - Ensuring a controlled drying environment
	3. Superior Training - Continuing education; Learning from the best to adapt drying techniques and methods to the most current science of rapid structural drying

Superior Equipment

What would happen if you had to work today with the equipment and technology that the insurance industry used 20 years ago? Even a 10 year regress would be stifling.
The computers, their programs, networks, the internet, communications all would be gone. Typewriters and triplicates would be your weapons, and you would be hating life! This probably sounds crazy, but it's a pretty good analogy.

The computer industry and the restoration industry are roughly the same age (in mainstream application) and the advancements in both have been astounding. There is no way in the world that you would ever go back to using your IBM 286 computer or your Apple IIe for your business. It is not to say it couldn't be done, but think how much less effective you would be than if you were using your current Pentium 4, 2.5ghz or your G-4 Mac.
YET, you have companies working for you on your water damages that are still using the same type of technology that we had 20 years ago!

The VORTEX DRYING SYSTEM is independent of any ties to manufacturers or distributors. It tests the equipment that is available to contractors and gives them an unbiased evaluation of how they work on the job. Companies on our NETWORK buy and utilize only the BEST equipment on the market today!
 

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Superior Techniques

People make such a big deal about leaving in carpet and pad that have been water damaged. The VORTEX DRYING SYSTEM is NOT out to save carpet and pad.

Its purpose is to dry structures as rapidly as possible, no matter the class or category of water damage, with only the necessary replacement of structural components. Through our research of drying, we have found that with our SYSTEM it is possible today to dry and save many of the structural components (and contents) that in years gone by had to be replaced. One of the key ingredients to this process has been the introduction of "The Drying Chamber."

Setting up a "Drying Chamber" refers to the process of isolating the wet area of a structure, placing in the chamber ONLY the equipment it takes to dry that area, and then pulling the grains moisture in that area down lower than the unaffected areas around it.

Simply stated, if the air inside the affected area is dryer, the moisture inside the structure will have to come to it. If a company is drying a 2000 square foot house where only the 800 square foot basement is wet, it makes sense to block off the wet area from the other 1200 square feet of living space that is dry.

It might be as simple as putting up plastic or closing a door, but by isolating the wet area our companies are able to place within the Drying Chamber the equipment it takes to dry only 800 square feet instead of 2000.

Superior Training

The Chuck Dewald Structure Drying School has the distinction of being the original Structural Drying School of It's kind. Though it has been imitated, there is still one major factor that sets it apart from everyone else: This school has no ties to any equipment manufacturers or distributors.

Because of this, the freedom is there for us to test ALL EQUIPMENT on the market, recommending and implementing into our System of drying ONLY THE BEST. There is no BIAS, because the only person we have to worry about getting money from is the individual who pays for the class!

Because companies who utilize the Vortex Drying System are getting all the facts about WHAT equipment works best, WHY it works best, WHERE the equipment works best, WHEN it works best, and HOW it works best... (And they'll also know WHO makes it!) They can implement this SUPERIOR TRAINING on their jobs to produce SUPERIOR RESULTS!
 

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