Hydro Lab: New Technology, Water Damage, Training & Resource Center

Full Description coming soon. This course will cover mainly how to dry gym floors.

This 2 day hands-on course will cover both hardwood and concrete drying. Upon completion of this course the attendee will be able to understand the fundamentals of drying wood and concrete floors, understand the testing of both and indentify potential drying challenges, decide when a project is suitable for drying vs. replacement, size and set up the project and justify the costs to all involved.<br>

Hardwood Drying: It's not really hard: Understanding wood, project estimation, set-up, monitoring and billing, proper application of dehumidification and heaters, positive, negative or neutral airflow drying and project reviews from kitchen to gym floors, including major containment and how to hook up larger trailer mounted systems to the building and retain security.<br>

Concrete Drying: It's more than cement: understanding concrete, project estimation, setup, monitoring, billing, proper application of dehumidifiers and heaters, postive, negative or neutral airflow drying, hands-on set up and project reviews including from "slab on grade" houses to industrial coating projects.<br>

There is no prerequisites for these course but it is recommended that you have WRT and ASD.<br>

Approved for 2 Clean Trust (formerly IICRC) CEC's.

This 2 day course will be divided into 4 sections: Prepping your business, contracts and bidding in commercial world, fundamentals of drying science and commercial sales. This course is geared towards owners, management or project managers.<br>

Day One: Supplies and Training needed-understanding the commitment necessary, proper tooling and well-rounded expertise that is required to be a successful commercial dryer; Understanding Insurance and the Commercial Market-what insurance you may need, but mostly what is covered at a loss. Working with individually owned condo's in a mult-story structure, knowing "liability for loss" and questioning contents insurance; Physical Structural Differences in Commercial Buildings-Multiple layers of material, metal studs and sill plates, water trapped in conduit runs and all the other fun stuff; Electrical and HVAC systems-do you know where the duct goes and what's in it? Using the existing HVAC system when you can to make even more money on a job. Working with fire alarms and smoke evacuation systems; Dealing with Public Access, Security and Commercial Chain of Command-Who is your friend? Who can and shall pay your bill?; Contracts and Bidding-Bidding, Billing, Cost Control and Record Keeping Paperwork; Drying with minimal business interruption-learn about BOTTOM LINE DRYING, the best way is not necessarily the fastest. The right drying time and costs for the specific project.<br>

Day Two: Using the right equipment the right way; Fundamentals of drying including positive, negative and neutral pressurization. What works when and how you can figure out what to use on every project.; Marketing, Sales and Relationships-who are you and where are you going? Setting forth your plan and learning to sell. Who to call on? Who are the best commercial contacts? Commercial Adjustors and Property Managers-Understanding their job and what they want. General contractors-what do you have to offer them and how to offer it.; Trade Organizations-you need to attend more than ours. What are their and which ones do you need to be a part of?; Develop and deploy a disaster plan with your potential customers.<br>

No prerequisites for this course but it is recommended that you have taken WRT/ASD/HST/AMRT

Prerequisites are: 1.) Tetanus shot within the last 5 years and Hepatitis B immunization; 2.) Medically cleared and qualified fit tested for respirator. Attendee must bring their own respirator with P-100 cartridges. Proof of these two requirements must be faxed or emailed in before the start of class. NO EXCEPTIONS!!! We recommend having Hepatitis A shot but this is not required. Course lecture will cover: Legal implications, Basic Microbiology on Sewage Loss, Chemicals, PPE, Equipment, Cleaning Procedures, Structural Drying, Post Clean & Dry (Testing Decontamination of Equipment, Billing and Paperwork). Hands-On will involve actual remediation of raw sewage in an actual residential structure.

This 2 day course will provide students with hands-on exercises to allow students the opportunity to build different types of containments using up to date equipment and "tricks of the trade". Addtionally, your company will learn how to be more efficient, productive and more profitable in completing mold remediation jobs. "Work Smarter-Not Harder", Latest Techniques in Containment Set-up and Controlled Removal, Tips to Make You a Better Remediatior. Receive 2 Clean Trust (IICRC) CEC credits.

If you are new to the industry or have been doing restoration for years, this is a course that you don't want to miss.  Kurt Bolden, Rachel Adams and retired insurance adjustor Clark Searle will make sure when you leave at the end of the week you will have everything you need to be able to land a job and run it from start to finish.

Back to Basics and the Fundamentals.  The NEW  "Crew Leader Boot Camp" gets back to the basics for the restoration contractor.  This 3 day advanced hands on class will take any contractor from Start to Finish of a water damage job. 

*  What happens when the phone call comes in?

* What information is taken?

*  Who is paying and How?

* How is the work dispatched?

* What equipment is needed and what is the proper equipment?

* Estimates, Job set up, inspections, paper work, equipment tracking and on the job challenges

This will be a majority Hands On course with the class actually doing a water damage job, filling out the paper work, and dealing with our experienced insurance adjuster.  Two of the best educators in the industry Kurt Bolden and Rachel Adams will teach and demonstrate the right and wrong procedures for efficiency, effectiveness, safety and legal realms of a water damage claim.

This is the newest class offered at the Hydro Lab and a must for any contractor.

2 IICRC CEC's for attending

Limited seating and minimum needed for class to be held.

The Applied Structural Drying courses cover the effective, efficient and timely drying of water-damaged structures and contents, using comprehensive classroom and hands-on training, in order to facilitate appropriate decision-making within a restorative drying environment. Students will experience live hands on use of instruments, extraction systems, drying equipment, and chemistry use in an actual flooded building situation.

The Hydro Lab now uses the 2006  3rd Edition S500 standard for the ASD training manual!  Purchase price for Standard is $100 (retails for $125).  Please notify the Hydro Lab Coordinator, Megan Houghtalen, if you will be bringing your own New S500 standard to class.

The Applied Structural Drying courses cover the effective, efficient and timely drying of water-damaged structures and contents, using comprehensive classroom and hands-on training, in order to facilitate appropriate decision-making within a restorative drying environment. Students will experience live hands on use of instruments, extraction systems, drying equipment, and chemistry use in an actual flooded building situation.
The Hydro Lab now uses the 2006 3rd edition S500 standard for the ASD training manual.


This a four day ASD course with the incorporation of different manufacturers. Some of the guests are Concepts & Designs, Dryvex, Thermastor and many more.

STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING RESPIRATORS!

WRT (water restoration technician) is prerequisite for this course!

The Applied Microbial Remediation Technician course covers mold and sewage remediation techniques to individuals engaged in property management, property restoration, IEQ investigations or other related professions. Emphasis will be placed on teaching mold and sewage remediation techniques to individuals who will perform these procedures in the field. Course graduates will be adequately equipped to perform remediation services, while protecting the health and safety of workers and occupants.

This course must be attended in its entirety and completion of both WRT and ASD exams during that same five (5) day time period. If any portion of the course and exam are not completed during the five (5) day period the student would be required to re-attend the entire five (5) course to receive both certifications. No portion of the five (5) day course could be applied to either a WRT or ASD course being taught separately.

The Water Damage Restoration Technician course will cover extraction, basic containment, and basic mold procedures, also black water decontamination hands on procedure and initial equipment set up and the basics of drying. This course is designed to teach non-restoration personnel that perform remediation work to give them a better concept of water damage, it’s effects and techniques for drying of structures. This course will give residential and commercial maintenance personnel the background to understand the procedures necessary to deal with water losses, sewer backflows, and contamination such as mold.

The Applied Structural Drying courses covers the effective, efficient and timely drying of water-damaged structures and contents, using comprehensive classroom and hands-on training, in order to facilitate appropriate decision-making within a restorative drying environment. Students will experience live hands on use of instruments, extraction systems, drying equipment, and chemistry use in an actual flooded building situation.

The Hydro Lab now uses the NEW 2006 S500 standard for the ASD training manual! Purchase price for the new standard is $100.00 (retails for $125.00). Please notify the Hydro Lab Coordinator, Megan Houghtalen, if you will be bringing your own NEW 2006 S500 standard to class.

 

WRT(Water Restoration Technician) is a prerequisite for this course.

The Commercial Drying Specialist course teaches damage inspection and evaluation, work flow management, process administration and technical methods of effective and timely drying of commercial, industrial, institutional and complex residential water-damaged structures, systems, and furniture, fixtures and equipment (FFE). Resources for this course include: the current ANSI/IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration, reference media, scientific, technical and industry resources.

With taking this course at the Hydro Lab you will not only get the knowledge and expertise of our dynamic instructors but actually hands on training in our commercial building. You will be flooding and drying a 40' X 30' 6 layer commercial wall. You will be using a variety of large loss equipment. i.e. desiccants, water out, tes, and other commercial equipment. You will also be drying specialty floors such as ceramic, hardwood, and marble using such equipment as injectidry, octidry and other specialty tools.

The IICRC-approved Water Damage Restoration Technician (WRT) course is designed to provide basic education for technicians and other materially interested parties in the science and practice of water damage restoration. The 3 day course will cover extraction, basic containment and basic mold procedures. This course is designed to teach non-restoration personnel that perform remediation work to give them a better concept of water damage, its effects and techniques for drying of structures. This course will give residential and commercial maintenance personnel the background to understand the procedures necessary to deal with water losses, sewer backflows and contamination such as mold. When coupled with additional on-the-job training and field experience, students should be adequately prepared to perform and document typical residential or light commercial water-damage restoration projects from start to finish. They also should be adequately prepared to accomplish further training in other IICRC-approved courses such as ASD and AMRT, which require WRT as a prerequisite.

 

Hands -On 3 Day High Tech Drying:


#8 Moisture Detection & Deep Penetration Detection
 - Moisture mapping and structural drying under kitchen cabinets, bathtubs, vanities, closed staircases, built in bar/cabinets, built-up floors. Technics to include drying interior components from the exterior of the structure, sandwich drying, high heat, infrared, lgr, dessicant, tes, dryvex, positive pressure, negative pressure, custom drying chambers including dr. Shrink. New monitoring technics will be implemented to accurately determine moisture contents and drying curves of all areas listed above.  

#7 Specialty Floor Drying
 - Drying hardwood, ceramic, marble floors. Dealing with vapor barriers, concrete board, multi-layer flooring, plank, osb, plywood. Learn how to implement infrared heat, high heat, lgr, dessicant, tes, dryvex, etc.  Custom built drying chambers using Dr. Shrink, sandwich drying,  learn high tech drying technics in order to reduce tear out and replacement.

#2 Commercial Wall Drying - Commercial wall drying- fire walls, 6 layers of 5/8th drywall, steel studs, rockwool insulation, fire proofing, plaster walls, drywall over plaster, drying walls behind vinyl wallpaper w/ vinyl cove base without wall covering removal, measuring negative & positive pressure in wall cavities.

CEC approved event for 2 CEC's for cleaning/restoration category

No prerequisite on this course, but the Hydro Lab strongly recommends ASD certified technicians or minimum 5 years of experience on the job.

The HST course is a must for anyone performing restoration or mold remediation! This course is provided to increase safety in your workplace and reduce your company's risk of costly fines and penalties. It is also designed to put you ahead in the restoration industry to show insurance companies you and your staff is ahead of the competition regarding health and safety. In taking this course you will also receive your 10 hour General Industry OSHA card.

In this course, you will learn about:

Fire: Are you Prepared? Electrical Safety, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), OSHA Requirements: Violations and How to Get your Company in Compliance, Confined Space: Why is it important to the Restoration Professional, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and Bloodborne Pathogens.

In this course you will leave with:

• A written Respiratory Protection Plan for Your Company
• An Emergency Action Plan for Your Company
• Forms/Documentation/Record Keeping

You need this course to achieve your IICRC Master Certifications!

The  The The Odor Control Technician course covers olfaction and odors, odor sources, detection process, theory of odor control, equipment, chemical options and applications.  The student will learn how to address odors caused from biological sources such as decompostion, urine, contaminationa and mold, combustion sources such as fire and smoke damage, and chemical sources such as fuel oil spills and volatile organic chemicals.

 

TAKE WITH FSRT AND SAVE- Both OCT and FSRT for $425

The Fire & Smoke Restoration Technician course concentrates on technical procedures for successfully completing the restoration of fire and smoke damaged environment.  Students will learn how to combine technical procedures with a practical approach to managing the job site and how that relates to pricing the job.

 

Take with OCT and SAVE- Take FSRT and OCT both for $425

This class will provide members with hands on experience featuring dry ice blasting, baking soda blasting, corn cob blasting, nutshell blasting and "sand" blasting. This course will cover practical applications, estimating, marketing, safety and ppe, tips and ideas from the field and the newest equipment and features.

DISCOUNTED PRICE OF $99.00 IF PARTICIPATING IN AMRT CLASS OF THE SAME WEEK.

BRING YOUR RESPIRATOR MASK AND BE READY TO PARTICIPATE.
 

This 3 day course for trauma scene remediation, not only will you learn the policies and procedures as required by the government (OSHA) this class will also have 2 different hands on scenarios-a lived in 100 yr old farmhouse and a vehicle-for attendees to clean. You will also learn about Meth Lab residue clean up, critical incident stress syndrome and employee relations. Don McNulty is available as a consultant to students for one year after the completion of this course.

A certification test will be given at the end of day 3 and this is a separate charge of $60.00.

 

A 4-5 hours seminar covering the marketing aspects and other business related issues. Topics covered but not limited to are start-up marketing, pricing, nuances of invoicing and growth strategies. This seminar is limited to owners and upper management as employee payscale and other employee issues are covered.

Requirement: Students must bring laptop to class with Xactimate 27.3 installed. If a demo copy is needed, go to www.xactware.com to download the 30 day demo. Anticipate 3 to 4 hours to download the demo and 15-20 minutes to install it.

Hydro Lab's Xactimate 27.3 training will put you years ahead of competitors in just 2 days. Step by step, hands-on instruction will help you master Xactimate's newest release 27.3.
Besides learning how to navigate Xactimate's newest version, simplify full assignment work flow, sketch, use macro's, you will be introduced to shortcuts and processes that improve productivity and efficiency and help you detail and capture the best estimate.

This class will also focus on creating budgets for material and labor, use the new tools created for stairs and roofs. Learning to use the new tool "GeoEstimator" is worth the price of the class alone.

This course is ideal for anyone who uses Xactimate, including estimators, insurance adjustors, restoration professionals, project managers and crew chiefs. "Old hands" and beginners will benefit from sessions on the nuts and bolts to assure accuracy as well as practices using tips and tricks to make estimates more complete.

**Approved for 2 CEC's with the IICRC** SEATS ARE LIMITED REGISTER EARLY!!!
****XTREME TEAM this course is not included as a benefit of your membership.

Approved for 1 IICRC CEC

Who should take this course: Water Damage Technicians, Painters, Window Installers, Carpenters, General Contractors, Restorers...

In April 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a rule that will have a significant impact on the renovation and remodeling industry. The Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP) will change how contractors go about working on certain buildings constructed before 1978. Effective October 2010, If you work on a house or child occupied facility built before 1978 rule may apply regardless of who owns the facility or who is paying for the work. Important Dates to Note: April 22, 2010: Full implementation and enforcement of the RRP. The RRP Requires two separate certifications and specific training.

Certified Firm: The actual company that performs the work must be a Certified Firm. This is a relatively simple administrative process.

Certified Renovator: The Certified Renovator is a named individual who works for a Certified Firm. A Certified Renovator must be assigned to each project and must be present on the job site for certain specific phases of the job. A Certified Renovator may not delegate these specific responsibilities to a non-certified person. The Certified Renovator is also responsible for training all non-certified workers who will be doing actual work on the project. However, non-certified workers may not perform the specific duties required of the Certified Renovator.

EPA's RRP website (www.epa.gov/leadpubs/renovation.htm) has more information on the rule. The site also has a handbook to help contractors understand the RRP. Called the Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right, this document guides you through the RRP without having to read the actual regulation.

The Advanced Business Strategies course is a 2-day course designed to provide an overview of legal, financial, tax, marketing and succession planning for the business owner. Students will learn strategic ways to analyze financial information, create ratios and business plans to properly review and analyze profit and loss statements, balance sheets as well as other daily financial documents. This course will assist the business owner in making sound business financial decisions, creating strategies and develop plans to maximize profit. Additionally, the course will review the corporate/business structure as well as reviewing and drafting legal documents to assist in managing key employees, partners/shareholders, vendors and customers. Students will also learn effective strategies to allow for maximum growth of the business to potential sale or retirement.