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Drying Logs

Drying equipment and drying days

Wave bills drying equipment for the days each unit ran, room by room, and the drying log follows along.

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Wave bills drying equipment for the days each unit actually ran, room by room, and the drying log follows along. Tell Wave what changed on site, and the estimate and the log stay in step.

Equipment shows up in two places: the estimate, which bills it, and the drying log, which tracks it day by day. Equipment billing applies to water estimates on all plans. The drying log parts use a drying log, which comes with Basic and above, the free trial, or one of Starter's 5 free drying logs.

Each room dries for its own days

Each room starts on the job's drying days. When one room needs longer, ask Wave in the job's chat, for example "keep the dehumidifier in the master bath two more days."

  • Daily equipment bills for the days each unit ran in that room. Only the equipment you name runs longer, and if you don't name a piece and the room has several, Wave asks which.
  • The job's drying days match the longest room's.
  • Each room has a 3-day minimum.
  • A room whose days differ from the job's shows a Dries N days tag on its room header.
  • If a room's drying days aren't known yet, Wave asks for them, and the equipment lines update when you answer.

When your request is clear, Wave makes the change and tells you the estimate total before and after. When it's open, Wave asks and shows the total each choice would leave. The full walkthrough is in Per-room drying days.

Moving equipment between rooms

Tell Wave what you moved and when, for example "moved one air mover from the kitchen to the hallway on day 4." It's still one unit, so its days are split between the two rooms and it bills once. See Per-room drying days for the details.

Equipment you placed or Wave suggests

Tell Wave what's running on site, in chat or in the job's notes: "four air movers and one dehumidifier in the kitchen." Wave bills the counts you give it.

If you haven't said what's running, Wave suggests equipment for the rooms, and you can change it. If the rooms look like they could use more than you placed, Wave mentions it and you choose which to use. It's your call either way: once you say what's running, Wave bills what you placed.

When Wave needs a detail on a quantity

If you type a quantity on a daily equipment line (an air mover, a dehumidifier or another per-day rental) and Wave can't tell whether you mean units a day or unit-days in total, it asks you on a card docked under that room's items, with the line total for each answer when the price is known. Pick one, and Wave updates the line and shows the line total before and after.

The same question can appear on the Drying tab, under the message, when building or changing the log needs that detail. For other equipment count questions, the message names the line, so you can correct it on the estimate and try again.

Keep the estimate and drying log in step

  • Ask Wave for changes that affect both. After Wave changes equipment counts or the whole job's drying days in the log, it offers to update the estimate to match. It touches the estimate only if you say yes.
  • Day changes on the Drying tab update the log. Editing the job's drying days in the header, or a room's days in its Dries line, re-plans the log, and the estimate keeps its billed days. If an estimate line is billed for a specific number of days, the message names the line to update first.
  • Watch for the update card. When the estimate's equipment, a room's drying days or room sizes change, the Drying tab shows a card comparing each room day by day, so you can update the log or keep it as it is. Recorded readings are kept either way.

See Adjust a drying plan for the step-by-step.

Jobs with a short drying period

If a water estimate's drying period is short, the Drying tab explains what's needed and suggests adding drying days in chat if the job needs a log. Once the estimate has enough drying days, Wave builds the log.

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