Drying out flooded bedroom

[patienceplease]

Help I need some advice - whilst away over Christmas we had a burst pipe - thankfully our lovely neighbours noticed water pouring out of the house and turned water off - but it was probably flowing for 2 days...
Soooo, thankfully only 2 rooms (and garage) soaked and no walls down. We have pulled carpet up as instructed by insurance company, had to buy a dehumidifier as you cannot hire them anyewhere round here - all been taken already.
The floorboards (chipboard) look dry, but how can I tell? DH doesn't want to "waste money" runnning the dehumidifier if it isn't necessary. The dehumid booklet says that "comfortable humidity" is 60% so he says that we should turn it off when it says the room is that. Surely if we want to get the damp out of the floor we need to get the air drier than that to get the water out?
I think that we should keep running the machine to keep the air as dry as possible so that the floors evaporate water into the air and just ignore the relative humidity level on the machine.
Any experts on dampness/ drying out there can help me??

Oh, and I think we shouldn't sleep in there yet as I think it is still damp - which can't be good for us.. (esp as I'm 37 weeks pg)

When we had a burst pipe in the kitchen, we had one industrial strength fan, and two dehumidifiers working nonstop from december to june to dry out the damp that had been soaked up by the house. But the pipe had been leaking a while. Dripping rather than flooding, though.

When we had a burst pipe in the shower, the dehumidifiers were working for a week.

I am surprised that the insurance company has not instructed a company to supply these.

I am not an expert, but I think you need to keep running it as instructed by the insurance company, as work to put things right cant be done until the rooms are dry.

We also had the huge fan and dehumidifier in our kitchen for 3 weeks when we had a burst pipe under the kitchen floor. luckily there is a "hidden" void underneath the kitchen where some of the water went. This was all sorted out by the insurance inc removal of flooring.

However I did want to instruct my own builders and the insurance company did want me to sort out the drying and removal of the flooring by myself. There was a name for this work but I told them that I wanted them to sort this out and then once dry, I would sort from then on. The drying company come with special meters to measure the amount of moisture in the floor. It was way lower than 60% that we were allowed to have in our concrete floor. The insurer also covered the cost of running the electricity for the dehumidifier.

Thank you!
OUr insurance company basically said that as they had so many people with burst pipes that we had to hire dehumidifiers ourselves and they could not provide them. Hence having to buy one.
I would love to have a couple of inudustrial strength ones (especially in garage - directly underneath our room and it still looks soaking) as although my daughter's bedroom is lovely - I would like to go and sleep in my bedroom sometime soon!