Industrial Unit, Rülzheim, Germany - Water damage from broken water pipe

Drying concrete after a broken pipe in an industrial plant.

A local manufacturing company contacted DBK in Rülzheim, Germany, following an escape of water in their premises. The leak was a slow leak left undetected for several weeks, causing significant water damage throughout the property.

The business interruption was a significant concern for the customer, and they needed a solution that would allow them to continue running throughout the drying process. Conventional methods would have caused considerable disruption to the business and were not an option, so the ΩDBK Drymatic System was chosen.

The water damage was significant throughout the building, and the first 12-18″ of the wall were saturated.

Core samples of the concrete slab were taken throughout the property to determine the extent of the water damage. Unfortunately, a large portion of the slab was water-damaged due to the length of time that the leak was left undetected.

The ΩDBK Drymatic System was installed throughout the property using heat and air exchange to extract the moisture. Targeted heat-drying was employed in the worst affected areas to accelerate the drying program.

The equipment was quiet as the employees were still working on the property, and the heat and humidity could be controlled.  The ΩDBK Drymatic System catered to these requirements.

Within 20 days, the property was brought back into a state of dryness with no business interruption for the owner. Due to targeted heat drying, the concrete slab was successfully dried with no strip-out required saving thousands of pounds in rein-statement costs.

Other contractors' quotations indicated that drying the property using conventional methods would have required significant strip-out of the property and approx. 60 days+ drying time.