Process Focus: Freeze Drying for Art/Documents Restoration
While textiles, electronic items and hard goods get a lot of the attention when it comes to contents restoration, soft goods should not be overlooked either. After all, the likes of books, manuscripts, business records, legal files, contracts, artwork, photographs and more are cherished items too – some in terms of sentimental value and others in terms of business value.
And while ultrasonic and specialty cleaning machines, hand scrubbing, washing and laundering and other technologies and techniques can restore the likes of hard goods, electronics and textiles to pre-loss condition, documents are a little different, especially when it comes to water losses. Like any other contents that have been water-logged, documents need to be dried, too. But how this is done is tricky. You can’t just put books and papers in a drying chamber or ring out the paper.