As a full-service damage restoration company, Restore-It Restoration and Cleaning provides content cleaning for water-damaged and fire-damaged personal belongings. The capacity to deliver all types of cleaning and restoration services simplifies and streamlines the restoration process, reduces costs, and speeds up progress, shortening the overall length of the project. In the end, the homeowner is reunited with the home, and life returns to normal.
A fire, smoke, and water damage disaster can have far-reaching effects. A small cooking fire in the kitchen can contaminate the entire home with toxic smoke and soot residue. If the fire department extinguishes the flames, extensive water damage is added to the property owner’s restoration needs. Serious structural damage can be caused by both the fire and the efforts of the firefighters to ensure the fire is completely extinguished.
The toxic environment, unusable personal belongings, and structural damage can make the home unsafe and uninhabitable. People and pets must relocate until the house is safe and secure. Some or all of the contents may need to be moved out.
Why Homeowners Need Pack-Out Services
- Furniture, appliances, electronic devices, keepsakes, important documents, and other valuables are at risk of damage from the elements.
- The contents are subject to theft or looting due to the inability to secure the structure from trespassers.
- The cleanup, restoration, and reconstruction of the home or business would be impeded if personal belongings remained in the structure. Technicians would waste time constantly having to move or work around furniture, appliances, and decorative items.
- The contents could be damaged by workers, equipment, or accidents during the cleanup and restoration.
- The contents may be too delicate, valuable, or too heavily damaged to clean and restore in the home.
Benefits of a Pack-Out
In a complex damage disaster involving fire, smoke, and water, items such as documents, artwork, jewelry, guns, electronic devices, clothing, furniture, appliances, musical instruments, toys, kitchen utensils, cookware, memorabilia, and sentimental items must be cleaned, sanitized, deodorized, and repaired. This restoration process can often be conducted more quickly and efficiently when the contents are moved offsite.
Time is crucial for a successful restoration. Rust, water stains, mildew, mold, warping, swelling, peeling, delamination, decomposition, smudging, and reactions to toxic contaminants need time. Drying, dehumidification, and cleanup require rapid application to halt secondary damage and ensure a successful restoration. When restoration is completed, the contents are stored in a safe, secure, clean environment until the damaged home or business is ready to be occupied.
Insurance industry experts explain how and why having one restoration service clean and restore all contents rather than farming the task out to several providers is optimal. According to PropertyCasualty360, “Reducing claim cycle times is desirable for insurers and full contents restoration can readily streamline the salvage process. Nowadays, restoration providers employ more eco-friendly solvents and cutting-edge cleaning technologies that can restore more content types than ever before, which helps carriers reduce loss ratios since they no longer need to replace every single item. Logistically speaking, managing the transfer of different categories of contents to a disparate group of restorers, staying abreast of the latest developments, and then delivering everything back to the homeowner fully restored is a daunting challenge. The idea is to centralize remediation to a single provider since using multiple contractors adds complexity, can be more costly and delay settlement.”
The Cleaning and Restoration Process
1. Sorting
A property damage restoration company that provides pack-out services will carefully sort items into two categories: salvageable and unsalvageable. The professionals at Restore-It Restoration and Cleaning know current restoration methods and technology. A valuable heirloom the homeowner thinks is damaged beyond repair could be restored with products that are available only to the professional cleaning and restoration trade.
2. Proper record-keeping
The company will compile a detailed inventory of what can be restored and what cannot be salvaged. All damage is documented for the homeowner and the insurance company to review. The documentation verifies which contents are in the restoration company’s possession and serves as a checklist when the restored contents are returned to the owner. Unsalvageable items are stored for the insurance company to inspect.
3. Removal and restoration
Salvageable items are moved to a secure location for content restoration using industry-standard cleaning products and equipment.
4. Storage and return
The restored contents are stored at the facility until the property owner can receive them. Items will be returned to the restored location.
Homeowners or businesses that have experienced fire damage, water damage, or a flood disaster need to have the contents cleaned and restored immediately. A delay in taking action could result in many items being unsalvageable. Failure to act quickly can affect the insurance company’s willingness to pay for restoration. Restore-It Restoration and Cleaning provides comprehensive damage restoration in El Dorado, AR, and the surrounding area. Pack-out services are available if needed.
To learn more about content cleaning in El Dorado, AR, call Restore-It Restoration and Cleaning by phone at 870-417-4614.
