Document Freeze Drying

3/20/2019 (Permalink)

I went over a little bit about our document restoration services in a previous blog. For this blog I am going to go into a little more detail about the freeze drying process and why it is effective over just letting them air dry.

To start off vacuum freeze drying is the only method approved by the National Archives and Records Administration and also the General Services Administration. This process involves freezing an item containing moisture and then it is dried using vacuums and pressures to achieve sublimation. In order to prevent further damage it is important that your water damaged documents be frozen as quickly as possible.

• We use 10x12x15 banker boxes to store your water damaged documents and label each box so in the future it can easily be found and returned to you.
• We will then ship these items to a cold storage facility until those items are needed.

Vacuum freeze drying is just the first step in the process of restoring your water damaged documents. We will also clean, sterilize, deodorize, and if they can’t be restored we also offer certified destruction. Should you find yourself dealing with water damaged documents, call the professionals at SERVPRO of Burlington to help restore them.