Choosing A Great General Contractor

Residential Restoration Time Savers

Your general contractor will need direct access to the surfaces in your home that were damaged during a fire or flood. Use the following strategies to save time. Once you have completed the steps, your contractor can get to work conducting the restoration processes that you have hired them to oversee.

Throw Out Items

Soaked items that have become heavily soiled with dirt may not be worth the time and effort that it will take to clean and dry them. Leaving wet items within your home could lead to mold growth. Once you have removed standing water from the floors, perform an inspection of the contents that are stored in each room.

Decide if items are worth salvaging. Floor coverings, miscellaneous papers, home decor, and other affected items that you won't have difficulty parting with should be bagged up and hauled away by a waste management company.

If you are going to need to throw a lot of items away, secure a dumpster or extra waste receptacles that can be used to store all of the items that your waste management company will be picking up from your property

Get An Inspection For High-Cost Items

Avoid plugging in expensive electronics or attempting to clean guns and other items of value. Have each high-cost ticket item professionally assessed. Electronics that were exposed to water may cause you to become shocked if you were to test them out yourself.

Guns and other items that you spent a lot of money to purchase may require a specialized cleaning process. Having your items stored, inspected, and repaired at an offsite location will free up space within your home that your contractor and construction crew will need to access during the restoration project.

Acquire Support

Cleaning up your home so that it will be easy for a contractor and construction crew to access may necessitate the help of others. Ask your family, friends, or neighbors to assist you with emptying the contents from the rooms where smoke and moisture damage are present.

Many items within your home may be salvageable. In spite of this, the items may need to be cleaned prior to being useful to you once again. Once you have people able to assist you, designate an area for the items to be stored. Place items under a carport or on a patio.

Use tarps to cover the possessions. After your contractor has addressed the structural repairs within your home, have your household possessions inspected and cleaned. Then, move them back indoors.

For more information about residential disaster restoration, contact a local company.