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If you have ever had a major pipe burst or flood in your home and walked into a huge mess, you probably wouldn’t believe that you could stay organized at all. However, you can be organized even when you are dealing with a major water damage cleanup process. The key to staying organized is to stay positive and take breaks often when you feel overwhelmed. Cleaning up a water damage mess can be emotionally devastating, but with the help of restoration professionals from 24Restore in St. Paul, you will be back on your feet in no time. Here are some tips for staying organized during your cleanup.
Keep Track Of Calls
When you have a major water damage cleanup situation, you have to make a ton of phone calls to a bunch of different people, and it can be easy to lose track of who you have contacted and what information they provided. The best thing you can do is to make a spreadsheet of all the people you call, and what you discuss. This way you can be sure that you did make the phone call to the insurance company and gave them the quote from the restoration company. And you can remember that you called a hotel and canceled your reservations because your mother invited you to stay at her place. You need to be able to check these items off a physical list so that you can stay organized and know that communication is happening. Also, checking items off a list will give you a sense of accomplishment and will show you that you are making progress even when it feels like the process is so slow.
Damages
You will need to make another spreadsheet to document all of the damages. This is vital information that your insurance company will need to be able to refund you any money according to your insurance policy. If you have a hard time documenting all the items before they are cleaned out, take pictures and then go through them after to document your losses. Sometimes insurance companies want photos anyway in addition to a list of damages.
This part of the water damage cleanup process can be particularly hard to deal with, especially because will notice all of your belongings that you are damaged beyond repair. The best thing you can do is ask a friend to help you so that you can take a break every now and then or so you can focus on other parts while he or she weeds through the damaged items.
Communicate
There is a lot of communication that needs to take place between you, your restoration company, insurance company, and family and friends. So a good way to stay organized is to make sure you are communicating with everyone. If your water damage cleanup is going to take several days, have morning or nightly check-ins with your restoration company and other people helping.
Dealing with water damage cleanup can feel like a full-time job. When you hire 24Restore, we will be there to help every step of the way. If you need any advice or a consultation, call today.
“24Restore came within an hour of our water damage to assess the problem and restore and reconstruct our kitchen and my office. Everyone from 24Restore was professional, kind and did an outstanding job of damage assessment and restoration.”
Your service was excellent. The young man was thorough and very dedicated to completing the job. He’s a good one. I would recommend your services to anyone who need them.
Your team has been absolutely amazing, professional, sympathetic and wonderful. They took my mess and made it manageable as I shed a few tears, which they also consoled with empathy. At a time when we have floods and tornados city wide you responded within hours. Thank, I am impressed and I have passed the word on to many.
Very good experience……everyone I dealt with through 24 Restore was very professional and very kind.
This note is a note of thanks and appreciation of the services provided…..we could even say our home looks better than before we incurred our water damage…Job well done!
I don’t often take the time to write a follow up complimentary letter. However I was very impressed with 24 Restore and felt they went above and beyond to surpass expectations with WOW service. Thank you for the great service and great job that your team did to get my house back in shape.
I have recommended them to many of my friends. They are the only service that I have ever used that always gets my stains out and that clean my carpets beautifully. I can’t say enough good thins about them
Thank you for all the work put in to get out home……It would have been an impossible task for us to have accomplished in such a short time. We appreciate all that you have done for us! We are so grateful!
Yes. I appreciated the ability to funnel all activities thru a one-stop shop proved to be very valuable in a disaster project such as ours demo, construction and finish as well as work directly with insurance company. The team has been professional and those on site have been respectful of our home and schedule.
Alex did a great job scheduling, coordinating, and keeping me informed. He made sure that everything was done in a timely manner. I always felt that my job was a priority. All the workmen did a great job and were very polite. I am pleased with the results. I would highly recommend your company!
From the time of initial contact to the time of job completion was 24 hrs. Very pleased with job outcome. Will definitely use you again. If ever in need.
Response time was awesome. We we’re bewildered by what was happening and what needed to be done. 24hr came in and took care of what needed to be done.
I thought 24 was very professional and timely work.
24Restore was very responsive and did a thorough job plus they cleaned up after themselves.
The job was exceptionally well done. You were recommended to me by Dennis Carlson, a freind and I would definatley refer 24restore to friends and family.
Very Professional!
Everyone was on top of everything and got back to me in a reasonable time. Clean up was done absolutely perfect at the end of each job.
The guys who worked here were great, polite, personable and hard workers. They did a great job! So thankful this is over!
Working with the employees at 24restore has been an easy process. They aimed to please.
Kudos to Shelli Abraham especially, she worked with the mortgage company and insurance company so I didn’t have to, I’m a caregiver for my husband with Dementia, she took the pressure off having to deal with them, thanks Shelli.
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