Thinking of venturing into water resto? Water damage I did mostly alone yesterday

Mark Saiger

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Thinking of venturing into water damage restoration?

Here is a water damage I did mostly alone yesterday due to our schedule. Lot's of items to move by yourself, no where else really in the home to move things to as well.

You have to be ready for a lot of things.

Just take things one step at a time.

Frozen water line broke, flooded into basement and garage. Elderly lady, one of her daughters and a grand daughter living in the home.

Category 1, Class 2 water loss.

The guys arrived in time to help bring in equipment and put up the plastic barrier and tension poles, otherwise, I handled all of this by myself. You can do it, just got to want to do it....

I tabbed and blocked most everything remaining in the room after extracting about 1 inch of water.

Took time to remove moisture out of a material type picture that the lady had from her daughter who passed away at a young age of 40....

Water even ran outside and formed a skating rink that went through garage and out....

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Don't do it!!!

That's a full pack out, content cleaning, tear out, dry out, repair (out), new flooring, complete painting, electronics restoration, plus 25% O&P for us.

No money in it!

I'm being sarcastic. :)
 
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what a PITA....

you guys can keep it....:dejection:

I have done a few "extraction only" and when there is all that shit there...I have noooo patience for it....

in fact i look around my house if it ever happened....

bring in a fooking dumpster...and get your pen ready honey....cuz its gone....

what a mess
 
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Carpets are just about completely dry today. Went from 54% Rh down to 30% Rh in 22 hours.

Some walls wet, and those will take some time to dry.

Fighting a WEAK 100 amp service which is being a challenge. Would love to hit it with more power, but limited. Feel pretty good about where it is in that short of time span.

Water staining on carpet, but pretty confident can fix it. Will wait to see what the adjuster wants to do.

Just means moving all that stuff and cleaning, blocking and tabbing one more time!

Now my body...I was tired last night and slept pretty good!

Knocking off a bit early for the afternoon as we have a restaurant job tonight and are out of town cleaning tomorrow. Not overly pounded with work, but get some warmer weather and the phones will hopefully take off.

I have errands to take care of and work more on our upcoming home show.

Mark
 

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Hey Mark, I thought you were "getting out of restoration"? :)

Steve

PS Or is it sort of a Hotel California thing? "You can check out but never really leave?"
 
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We've done 7-losses so far this week. Its good income in slow carpet cleaning months. 7x3k makes a decent start to the week.

We also had two apts at a retirement community we work for. 4th floor, it was harder work that the WDR jobs. ; )
 
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That's what most of my water losses look like! It's a lot of work for sure! Now as long as the adjuster pays up its ok..
 
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Man that water stain looks nasty. I didn't know you cleaned paintings? :p

That looks like a tough one, good for you Mark!

"How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

Ed York told my pops that when pops got the 7 figure fire restoration job... "How does a snake eat an elephant? One bite at a time." That's one of the things I remember about Ed....

Good job Markie Mark! It's the hoarders that are the pits!
 
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