Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Remember....I'm out of the restoration game....uh huh!
Anyway, got a call from an adjuster in the early evening on site at a water loss.
Family didn't know who to call and this adjuster has been more than happy with us and how we treat our clients as well as how fair we have been to work with.
The father passed away a year ago.....you might have an idea why in a few pics!
The pipe broke in a section of the home that was added on to and had a crawl space. The pipe pushed all the sand and mud up against the access door to the crawl space. We were able to get a 4 inch by 12 inch spot hacked out of the door and get lay flat ducting into it.
Dried the rest of the place (basement and top side due to secondary water intrusion from high humidity). Basement is actually being gutted down to the cement blocks. Adjuster just wanted it dry as fast as possible, then worry about deconstruction. Our local building inspectors and codes are crazy, so you actually have to pull a permit gut the place....we don't mess around with this and have contractors on call for this.
Adjuster was a bit worried that company could say no coverage since they found out no one was in the place. Everything has worked out for coverage up to this point (fingers crossed)
You will be able see where the pipe broke.....we shoveled and did the bucket brigade removal of mud for about an hour the first night.
Also....all the upstairs....those walls are painted white!!!
Family told me the dad just sat in the house and smoked all the time (Really
)
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The place smelled of smoke so bad, I would have to plan to take a shower after every time I entered the place! Equipment was heavily decontaminated!
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Furnace is really chugging the smoke through the place also!!!
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Anyway, got a call from an adjuster in the early evening on site at a water loss.
Family didn't know who to call and this adjuster has been more than happy with us and how we treat our clients as well as how fair we have been to work with.
The father passed away a year ago.....you might have an idea why in a few pics!
The pipe broke in a section of the home that was added on to and had a crawl space. The pipe pushed all the sand and mud up against the access door to the crawl space. We were able to get a 4 inch by 12 inch spot hacked out of the door and get lay flat ducting into it.
Dried the rest of the place (basement and top side due to secondary water intrusion from high humidity). Basement is actually being gutted down to the cement blocks. Adjuster just wanted it dry as fast as possible, then worry about deconstruction. Our local building inspectors and codes are crazy, so you actually have to pull a permit gut the place....we don't mess around with this and have contractors on call for this.
Adjuster was a bit worried that company could say no coverage since they found out no one was in the place. Everything has worked out for coverage up to this point (fingers crossed)
You will be able see where the pipe broke.....we shoveled and did the bucket brigade removal of mud for about an hour the first night.
Also....all the upstairs....those walls are painted white!!!
Family told me the dad just sat in the house and smoked all the time (Really
![Eek :eekk: :eekk:](/images/smilies/eek.gif)
The place smelled of smoke so bad, I would have to plan to take a shower after every time I entered the place! Equipment was heavily decontaminated!
Furnace is really chugging the smoke through the place also!!!