Recovering Wet Documents or Books

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Recovering Wet Documents or Books
A Few Things You Need to Know About Freeze-drying
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Want to watch some paper dry?

• Of course not. Unless maybe youre dealing with
  something particularly unpleasant at work
  today.But in all seriousness, when your
  business or organization is dealing with
  important wet documents or books - and the
  potential related process or legal costs, or
  historical losses - paper drying suddenly becomes
  very interesting. So understanding how your
  documents can be salvaged may save you from a lot
  of fingernail biting while you wait for the
  process to play out.

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Document Restoration
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Damaged Document Drying Restoration

• Our technicians are trained on the many of the
  most advanced techniques available for cleaning
  and restoring documents and other items and
  ensuring that our customers always receive a
  quick and cost5 effective response.
• Some of these techniques that are applied are
  (but not limited to)
• HEPA Vacuuming
• Dry Sponge Cleaning
• Brushes and Dry Erasers Restoration
• Microbial Growth Remediation
• Drying Restoring Documents

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Refrigeration Trucks to the Rescue

• After you call a document restoration provider
  about wet books or documents, their goal will be
  to freeze them as fast as possible because
  freezing slows the disintegration of paper.
• Thats why the first stop for your wet or moist
  documents or books will most likely be a
  refrigerated truck. Once the documents are
  frozen, the water needs to be removed as fast as
  possible to help minimize overall damage.

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The Magic of Freeze-drying

• When your documents and books arrive at a
  facility, your restoration provider will
  typically use freeze-drying (the scientific term
  is lyophilization) to remove water before
  completing any other necessary restoration
  steps.The freeze-drying process uses a
  combination of low temperatures and low pressure
  to transform water from a solid to a gas.
  Condensing coils in the freeze drying chambers
  attract the gas and remove water from the
  chambers.
• Its important to understand that freeze-drying
  can be taken too far, in which case it may result
  in dry or brittle paper. So limits should be
  applied to prevent this from happening.

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Three Things to Consider

• Your document restoration needs can be
  time-sensitive and involve confidential or even
  priceless fragile materials. Damaged or lost
  documents can also set off a chain reaction of
  process or legal-related scenarios that can
  quickly grow very expensive. Thats why we
  recommend planning ahead whenever possible.

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Three Things to Consider

• If your organization has important documents or
  books that it could not afford to lose, be sure
  to

• Consider how fast you would need them back, if
  something happened
• Evaluate your document restoration vendor options
  ahead of time
• Learn how to prevent and prepare for emergency
  situations

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