PART 1
Friday, January 29, 2021 we awoke to news that one of our posts was tagged as "partly false" by the crack team of "independent fact checkers" at FB.
Clearly Kevin has something to hide...thankfully FB acted swiftly in the best interest of the most vulnerable among us to notify the public of this errant material aimed at infecting the unsuspecting minds of the fragile public.

I’m glad filth and deception such as that purported by The DYOJO as “info-tainment” will no longer be tolerated.

I’m viewing this as a sign that FB is committed to really rooting out the content that is most likely to negatively impact our restoration ecosystem and the world at large.

Public statement:

I want to apologize to my tens of listeners for disseminating “partly-false” information on FB. I’m ashamed.

Actually, I’m relieved. I’ve always been a fraud and now I’ve been outed by an “independent fact checker”.

We are here to get to the bottom of this important issue with the perpetrator of deception... Kevin Hussey

PART 2
Early Air Mover Wars - Claude Blackburn's Dri Eaz vs. Lloyd Weaver's Porta Dryer
As a carpet cleaner in the 1970’s, Claude Blackburn noticed a negative trend with his fellow professionals, “Twenty percent of our industry is going out of business every year.” He wanted to find a way to help entrepreneurs like himself to keep themselves working in the slow season. Claude’s first invention was the foam EZ Block which he mailed from his operations center (his garage) for $27 a sheet to cleaners replacing the wood blocks that were common in the industry.
Claude Blackburn attended a water damage seminar taught by the second face on “Mount Restoration”, Lloyd Weaver. The “Industry Watchdog” Pete Consigli writing for C&R Magazine in 2007 noted, “Lloyd introduced the first specialty designed Porta Dryer for on-location wet carpet drying. While that might not seem like much in today’s sophisticated world, 35 years ago Lloyd’s methodology challenged the rug cleaning establishment and its in-plant wet carpet service.” Shortly afterwards Claude experimented with his own metal carpet dryer and eventually produced ten units, sent out 24,000 expensive mailers to advertise the product, and only sold four. He was contemplating abandoning the idea.
Claude shares an interesting story about the device that would become the flagship of his company and an interaction with Mr. Weaver. At an industry trade show in Vancouver, Washington, Lloyd didn’t take kindly to Claude’s creations and publicly challenged him. While he physically shook the meek mannered innovator from Mt. Vernon, he also rattled his entrepreneurial spirit and only deepened Claude’s commitment to making his then fledgling invention work. With the arrival of an unlikely partner, Harlan Wright, Mr. Blackburn developed the first fiberglass molded air mover for the carpet cleaning and water damage restoration industry in the early 1980’s.

When Claude sold Dri-Eaz in 2006 it had:

200 employees

150 distributors

Sales of 50 million


Hear the rest of Claude Blackburn on The DYOJO Podcast Episode 47 “The Found of Dri Eaz Life Before, During, and After Property Restoration.”

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