A working system for daily drying logs on water losses: psychrometric readings, equipment placement, and clean documentation that survives an insurance audit.
The Friday panic is universal in water restoration: you're pulling equipment off a five-day dry-out and realize nobody logged Wednesday's readings. Now you're reconstructing psychrometry from memory before the adjuster asks.
What a real drying log tracks
- GPP (grains per pound) inside, outside, and unaffected reference
- Temperature and RH per affected room, once per day
- Material moisture readings on the same wall locations each day
- Equipment placement: air movers, dehus, HEPA, with model and serial
- Photos of the equipment in place, dated automatically
Why the daily cadence matters
One reading proves the loss. Daily readings prove you did the work. Adjusters and TPAs increasingly deny line items that lack drying documentation for each billed day. A missing log day can cost more than a week of labor.
The 90-second daily visit
A tech should be able to walk into a job, open the app, punch in six readings, snap two photos, and leave. That's it. If your process takes longer, the process is broken, not the tech.
Software that makes daily logs painless is software your crew actually uses. See our psychrometric calculators and water damage toolkit for the way we do it. For the underlying standard, see ANSI/IICRC S500.
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