Sabre and Chlorine Dioxide (ClO₂)

A Permanent Solution to Problem Drywall

The Sabre Companies have a long history of safe and effective applications of chlorine dioxide in a wide variety of industries, including water treatment, food processing and oil and gas. That expertise and technology provides a permanent and nondestructive solution for homes containing problem drywall.

The Sabre Process

Sabre’s patented chlorine dioxide technology was used to eliminate anthrax contamination from the Hart Senate Office Building, the two contaminated Post Office Distribution Centers and several other buildings. In 2005, chlorine dioxide, as applied using Sabre’s propriety process, was determined to be "the standard for the decontamination of buildings" by the National Academy of Sciences.

Since that time, Sabre has successfully treated hundreds of large structures for pervasive mold, pathogens, viruses and other conditions, including an 8 million cubic foot pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, a 1760-room, 400,000 cubic foot hospital in southern California, which was repopulated with patients and staff three days after the completion of the treatment, as well as shopping centers, office buildings, restaurants, churches, condominiums and individual homes, providing a permanent solution to the critical problems plaguing those structures.

Chlorine Dioxide as a Solution to Problem Drywall

In certain homes and structures, particularly those exposed to temperature and relative humidity conditions common to the southeastern US, drywall has been identified as the source of problematic gases which give off a characteristic “rotten egg” smell and cause blackening and corrosion of copper. This wallboard has been shown in a study funded by the Florida Department of Health to release a variety of reduced sulfur gases, including hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide and carbon disulfide.

Chlorine dioxide is a highly penetrating gas that seeps into building materials and wall cavities, reacting with reduced sulfur compounds instantaneously, converting them to safe, inert, non-odorous compounds.

Recognizing that the Sabre process, which has been perfected through the treatment of hundreds of structures for contaminants, could be used as a permanent solution to the problem drywall challenges, Sabre has re-sized and automated its equipment to address individual residences and smaller buildings.

Affected structures are fully encapsulated in polyethylene sheeting to maintain temperature and humidity parameters inside the building and to contain the chlorine dioxide gas throughout the process.

The chlorine dioxide gas is introduced to the building using Sabre’s patented technology processes and immediately begins to react with the reduced sulfur compounds. Process variables are monitored throughput the treatment process. After treatment parameters are achieved in approximately 8 to 10 hours, remaining chlorine dioxide gas is “scrubbed” from the building. This process allows residents to reoccupy their homes in less than one week from start to finish.

The Sabre chlorine dioxide treatment process is extremely efficient from both a time and cost perspective and provides a permanent, nondestructive solution to problem drywall.

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Sabre Environmental Services LLC

1891 New Scotland Road
Slingerlands, NY 12159
518-514-1572 Tel.
518-439-1567 Fax.

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