The pack-back is the day a restoration becomes a home again. It comes after the structure is finished and cleaned, and it is the mirror image of the packout that started the project: the same inventory, the same boxes,…
After a fire or a large water loss, the structure is only half the claim. The other half is everything that was inside it, and the document that governs that half is the contents inventory. It decides what gets cleaned,…
Weeks after a fire, with the walls repainted and the carpet replaced, a homeowner opens a closet on a humid August afternoon and the smell is back. Smoke odor is one of the most persistent problems in fire restoration,…
When a room has to be dried, cleaned or rebuilt, everything in it is in the way and at risk. A contents packout is the organized removal of your belongings from the affected area to a secure facility for the duration of…
Homeowners who have just been through a fire expect to deal with soot and charring. What often surprises them is that the largest portion of the damage may be water. A single attack line delivers well over a hundred…
After a fire, the flames are usually the smallest part of the damage. What spreads through the rest of the house is smoke and soot, and although the words are used interchangeably, they are different problems that call…