Drying-days estimator
Duration from conditions.
Water · Calculator
Free · no login
Product overview
Pick the primary wet material, the water category, and a severity level and this tool returns a rough structural drying duration in days. Reach for it early in a water loss to set expectations on a mitigation timeline, to sanity-check a contractor's equipment-days billing, or to estimate how long air movers and dehumidifiers should stay on the equipment line. It is a planning number — the real trigger to pull equipment is documented moisture goals, not the calendar.
The estimate starts at a three-day baseline and adds time for the factors that slow drying under IICRC S500. Category 2 adds a day and Category 3 adds two, reflecting the extra removal and cleaning contaminated losses require. Low-evaporation materials — plaster, hardwood, or concrete — add a day because bound water leaves slowly. Heavy severity adds a day for saturation. The result is clamped to a 2-to-7 day window so it stays realistic. It is a first-pass duration only; S500 requires equipment to remain until the material reaches its documented dry standard.
Product details
- Sold by
- Mensuria
- Product category
- Free field tool · Calculator
- Delivery method
- Web app · no login
- Cost
- Free
Highlights
- Deterministic — the same inputs give the same result, every time.
- Built for the trade, sized to feed Xactimate line-item quantities.
- Free — no login, no card.
- Works from a phone at the loss.
Vendor insights
Mensuria writes a neutral scope built to survive review — every line item sourced to a photo, anything unprovable held back and flagged for you. It never files the estimate; a licensed adjuster confirms every line and stays the adjuster of record. Mensuria is independent and not affiliated with Verisk or Xactimate; “Xactimate-ready” means the worksheet is organized for Quick Entry.
Pricing
This tool is free — no login, no card. The full scope-drafting product is priced below; your first claim is free.
Details
Delivery method
Mensuria is a web app — nothing to install. You work a claim in the browser and export a room-grouped, Xactimate-ready worksheet (codes, quantities, descriptions) organized for Quick Entry. There is no native .ESX import; you key the reviewed line items into Xactimate and stay in control.
Terms and conditions
Use of Mensuria is subject to our Terms of Service. Your first claim is free with no card; paid plans are billed monthly and cancel anytime.
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Support
Support
Reach the team at support@mensuria.com . You will hear back from people who have written a scope, not a ticket queue.
Onboarding
Your first claim walks you through capture, draft, review, and export step by step, so you are productive on claim one — no training required.
Refund policy
Monthly plans cancel anytime; the CAT Season Pass is a one-time add-on with no commitment.
Common questions
Most straightforward Class 1 to Class 2 residential losses dry in three to five days with proper equipment, but the honest answer is: until the material hits its dry standard. This tool gives a planning estimate of two to seven days from material type, water category, and severity. Bound-water materials like hardwood and plaster run longer; contaminated Category 3 losses run longer still because of the removal and cleaning involved. Under S500 you keep equipment running and document daily moisture readings until the affected material matches an unaffected reference, then pull it.
Drywall and other high-porosity materials release free water quickly under airflow. Hardwood, plaster, and concrete hold bound water — moisture locked inside a dense material that evaporates slowly — so they need more time and often specialty equipment like desiccant dehumidifiers or floor-drying mats. That is why S500 flags these as Class 4 specialty drying. This tool adds a day for those materials, but a badly saturated hardwood floor can take well beyond the seven-day cap; treat the number as a floor, not a promise, and let moisture readings drive the actual pull date.
Use it to estimate the equipment-days line, but bill the days you actually ran equipment and can document. Carriers scrutinize drying duration, and the defensible record is daily moisture logs showing the material trending toward its dry standard, plus placement photos. If drying stalls — because a chamber was opened, equipment was under-sized, or a material is holding bound water — document the reason. The estimate here sets an expectation; the moisture documentation is what supports the invoice when the desk adjuster reviews it.
It affects the timeline mostly through the extra work a contaminated loss demands, not through physics. Category 1 clean water dries fastest. Category 2 grey water adds a day in this tool for the cleaning and partial removal involved. Category 3 black water adds two days because it typically means flood cuts, material disposal, antimicrobial application, and sanitization before drying even starts in earnest. So a Cat-3 job's overall mitigation window is longer even though the drying step itself follows the same evaporation rules once the affected material is removed.
Air movers and dehumidifiers.
Cat-1/2/3, Class 1-4.
- Water
Treatment surface sizing.
- Water
GPP and dew point.