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Drying Logs

Export a drying log

Turn the job's drying log into a PDF, on its own or in one packet with the estimate, and check it before it goes to an adjuster.

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Availability: Drying logs are available on Basic and above, and included in the free trial. Exporting the log works on those plans and during the trial. On Starter, a log started with one of your 5 free drying logs exports the same way.

The drying log is AI-generated from the estimate and local weather. Techs should verify readings daily, and someone on your team should review the whole log before it goes to an adjuster. The PDF is only as good as the readings behind it.

Export the drying log

The drying log exports from the same Export dialog as the estimate.

  1. Open the job. Click Export on the Estimates tab, or the Export chip at the top of any other tab of the job, including Drying.
  2. Under Include in PDF, Drying log is ticked along with the estimate. Keep both for one combined packet, or untick the estimate to export the log on its own. You can also tick other estimates on the job.
  3. Click Download PDF. On a phone the button reads Send PDF and opens your phone's share sheet.

You can also ask Wave in the job's chat to export, and it opens the same dialog.

Files are named after the customer. The log on its own downloads as "Dana Reyes Drying Log.pdf". A combined file downloads as "Dana Reyes Packet.pdf".

Combined packets are handy when the adjuster wants one file for the claim.

What the PDF includes

  • Cover or letterhead. A drying log cover in the styled look, or your letterhead in the plain look. Admins choose the look in Settings, and anyone exporting can switch letterheads if your company has more than one.
  • Job. The customer, the water loss, the drying window and the dry standard.
  • Atmospheric readings. Outside conditions, the unaffected reference area and each chamber, day by day.
  • Material moisture readings. Each material's goal and its daily readings.
  • Drying progress. Charts for each room, with the equipment setup for that room.
  • Notes. Your drying notes, printed without the author's name.
  • Closing note. The last word on the log. Leave it blank on the Drying tab to use Wave's default statement, or write your own.

When rooms end on different days, or a room's equipment changes from day to day, each room prints its own table with its equipment beside its readings and the day that room's drying ends. The drying window runs to the longest room. The combined packet prints the log the same way. Jobs where every room matches print as before. See Per-room drying days.

How the PDF shows readings

In the app, blue values are readings someone measured and plain ink values are Wave's plan. The PDF doesn't carry that split. It prints every day in one style, as a complete record:

  • Days without recorded readings print the plan's projection.
  • The charts draw one line across the whole drying window.
  • Days marked not monitored for every chamber are left out.

This is on purpose: the PDF reads as a finished document, and the Drying tab is where you see which numbers were measured. It also means a log with no readings at all still exports as a full document of projections. That's why the check below matters.

Before you send it

Open the Drying tab and give the log the same once-over you'd give the estimate:

  • Every day you monitored has real readings, entered in blue, and they match your meters.
  • Each room's final day of readings shows that room at goal.
  • Equipment counts, and any equipment moved between rooms, match what was on site.
  • The start date, the job's drying days and each room's drying days are right.
  • The notes and closing note say what you want an adjuster to read.

If something's off, fix it on the Drying tab or tell Wave, then export again.

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