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A recent trend has started among insurance and several restoration companies that a wet structure can be fully dried in 3 days time. A restoration professional might say this as a tactic to gain more adjusters, thus leading to more jobs. An insurance adjuster might even refuse to work with a company who claims otherwise. Is this expectation a cause for concern?

According to the IICRC, certified guidelines for restoration professional to follow, says nothing about this 3-day drying rule. In fact the according to Ken Larsen, and IICRS instructor say’s there is nowhere in the book that even implies that structures should be dried in 3-days. This is just a bad marketing strategy, one that may end up causing more problems than they had anticipated.

With adjusters and contractors publishing such erroneous material, it may lead to further problems regarding the contractor and adjuster relationship. This would lead to adjuster only referring business to contractors who can guarantee this. However, there is no scientific proof to back these claims. You simply cannot guarantee a structure will dry in 3 days. You have to take into account the humidity, how wet the area got, how big the area that was affected was.