Cleaning

There are startling new inventory methods available in modern contents restoration companies. And most of them have a foundation that is over a decade old. Because it was so good, most companies use it as a foundation for their new technologies. It is as simple as taking a picture. Digital Photo Inventory has been around […]

In 2015 a major insurance company found itself on the cover of Fortune Magazine for being one of the first such companies to employ a new technology that enabled a homeowner to communicate directly with adjusters and agents when they had a claim. It is all done by cell phone and while the homeowner walks […]

So there was a contents company that was performing a “Deep Cleaning” for a suburban home in which a grandpa had contracted the COVID-19 virus and had gone to the hospital. But when the Contents Manager arrived, dressed in full hazmat PPE (including mask), the two little kids in the house took one look at […]

You may recall the article in an earlier issue of Contents Solutions, in which a contents specialist was faced with nearly 30 computers that had been saturated with water from fire hoses. When water and soot mix together they form an acid that can actually disintegrate fragile components inside a computer. The adjuster had already […]

Contents valet do the extraordinary on virtually every job, and building managers, corporate heads, hospital administrators, county supervisors and others know it. If a building manager calls a restoration company owner and asks, “How do you remove mold that is growing on a wooden hutch?” and the owner says, “I’m not sure, but I’ll bet […]

Have you ever wondered who cleans out a “hoarding house” when a restoration company is called for such an assignment? Well we have heard of structural workers literally taking snow shovels, wheel barrows and wagons to empty out a house right down to the drywall. But real contents professionals have been sent in to discover […]

After a severe flood, it was all hands on deck for a large, water- logged home. Contents valet and structural workers worked side by side. The homeowners had moved several items out onto the front lawn, the frontline workers got the rest. All non-salvageable items were logged and shown to the owners. Artwork was carefully […]

For years we have pointed out that ozone can remove odors from homes and offices and it is a cost effective way to do so, but we have also pointed out that it can be hard on oil paintings, plastics, leather and even some metals. But now it has made a resurgence as a virus […]

Barb Jackson CR, has trained thousands of contents restoration valet and she strongly recommends to their employers that the frontline workers be permitted to participate in the hour to hour performance of any job. The contents valet rely on their supervisors — good, strong communication between them saves time, money and can keep the team […]

If you have read our past issues of Contents Solutions, you already know that the contents professionals have saved huge sums for their clients – like the fire damaged electronics from a university fire that took many days to clean and restore, but university officials estimated that they saved $4,000,000 on that one job. Or […]