Emergency Packout Services for Fire Damage: What You Need to Know
Has a fire damage incident impacted your home or residence? No one is ever prepared to oversee a natural disaster or in-home emergency, and it can be overwhelming to deal with that kind of destruction in your dwelling.
Fire is especially destructive. What does not burn can be smoke-damaged, and often, a fire event can destroy your home’s vital systems—compromising your electrical and sometimes even warping and melting your pipes vital to your home’s plumbing. In addition, it weakens the integrity of your home’s structure and burns up walls, possessions, etc.
Hiring Out for Help During an At-Home Disaster
The shock of a disaster at home is enough to send anyone reeling. Depending on how big the fire was and how much damage it caused, there will be a lot of coordination involved, and the situation is likely to be high-stress and emotionally charged.
Fortunately, there are trained professionals who specialize in helping people who have experienced a fire event at home. While you deal with evacuating your family to a safe off-site location and making the initial call to your insurance company to begin the claims process, these specialists can mobilize to help shoulder some of the load.
What Does an Emergency Packout Service Do for Fire Victims?
Here is what you can expect if you hire out for an emergency packout in the event of a fire event at your residence. These professionals will arrive at the scene and assess the situation in terms of damage to the property in your home (not the actual damage to your home itself but to your possessions). These companies are often available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because disaster never takes a day off.
These trained professionals will arrive on the scene and carefully pack up your belongings, removing items that are in good condition and have not been damaged, as well as anything they deem salvageable or that can be restored. A proper and all-inclusive pack job will include transportation of recovered possessions to a secure location offsite.
These Companies Can Function as a Third-Party in Damage Assessments
A bonus of hiring an emergency packout company to assist in dealing with fire-impacted items is that they can help provide an itemized list of items recovered and what they consider to be a loss. Again, these professionals cannot assess the damage to your structure; they specialize in assessing the contents of your home (your insurance company will send out a structural engineer to look at your home).
Having a third party assess your damaged items will take that legwork off your insurance company, which would send an adjustor out to make a damage assessment on behalf of the company, not you. The packout professionals, however, work for you and will provide you with an honest assessment unbiased by company loyalty.
Fire-Damaged Property and Remediation Services
Some emergency packout companies offer the total package and have skilled experts on hand who specialize in fire damage restoration. Fire damage restoration services involve smoke remediation and repair of items that have minor damage and are salvageable. These experts can get the smoke smell out of your rugs and manage the remediation of your possessions if they are not deemed beyond repair.
These experts are skilled at helping to make households whole again and will work tirelessly to restore irreplaceable items. Often, our homes are filled with belongings that hold a lot of sentimental value rather than physical value. It is the remediation professional’s job to try and salvage these things.
Fire Damage Restoration Services in Maryland and Virginia
If you reside in Maryland or Northern Virginia, Coventry Services provides rapid response services for residents who have been impacted by disasters, including fires. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our remediation experts are trained in fire restoration and can packout, assess, remediate, and store your fire-damaged items.
Are you interested in learning more about our fire damage restoration services? Visit our website for details and to learn more about who we are and what we do.
