Flood houses are valuable educational resources for restoration professionals to better understand post-disaster conditions inside building structures and receive hands-on training. 

Water Restoration Technicians are dependent on a wide range of tools on a daily basis, ranging from moisture meters and infrared cameras to dehumidifiers and heat drying systems. One underestimated, but essential tool is knowledge and this is gained through both industry training and hands-on experience. 

In today’s business climate we are all trying to cut cost. I am not only an IICRC-approved instructor, I too own and operate a restoration business.

Many of you have gone to a hands-on drying school at one time in your career.

The year 2013 saw many research projects conducted at HSG CodeBlue’s Structural Drying Laboratory in Springfield, Ohio.

Sitting in the backroom of a metro-Detroit office building is a 1,000 square foot “house.

Select Academy, the Montreal, Quebec specialized cleaning school for disaster restoration and cleaning, will introduce a 2,000 square foot flood house on September 11, 2012, according to a press release.

Flood houses are structures that are built so they can be purposefully flooded with water in order to train water restoration technicians and insurance professionals.