What Are Options for Household Contents After Miami Flood Damage?

1/12/2022 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of South Miami can offer assistance after a flood from a storm.

SERVPRO Pack-Out Services Deliver Outstanding Results for Flooded Miami Properties

As part of a storm’s aftermath in Miami, flood damage impacts household goods, furnishings, books and papers, and more. When flooding causes safety hazards severe enough to move you and your family out of your home during water mitigation and remediation, what accommodations can restorers extend to the non-structural items you leave behind?

Families should always consider a pack-out during flood restoration in South Miami. When conditions are too hazardous to permit your home to provide shelter, it makes sense to move the household contents to a safe and accessible place as well. Reasons to accept SERVPRO’s help with a pack-out include:

• Clearing contents from your residence allows on-site water damage restoration crews to focus on structural components needing water damage mitigation and remediation rather than endlessly shifting heavy furniture and dozens of items. 

• Wet contents moved out cease suffering progressive deterioration and receive appropriate cleaning, drying, and other restorative services.   

• Specially trained Contents Processing Technicians (CPT) evaluate items safely in the SERVPRO production facility, documenting conditions and creating innovative restoration plans while collaborating with your insurance carrier, ensuring claims coverage.

• Items are available in a secure place when you need them, rather than waiting days or weeks until your home’s restoration is complete when stored in your home.

How Does SERVPRO Track Packed-Out Possessions?

Our Contents Claim Inventory Service (CCIS) manages the items. Trained technicians create extensive lists of articles room by room, barcoding when possible. Diagrams and pictures to remind our crews where furnishings belong when it comes time for the pack-back. Digital imaging provides a visual record of the flood damage sustained by specific contents and then illustrates how successful SERVPRO efforts were in:

• Recovering documents and pictures through freeze-drying

• Laundering or dry cleaning textiles

• Removing soiling from non-porous objects with spray and wipe, immersion, or ultrasonic technology

• Cleaning and drying padded and upholstered furnishings with wanded extraction equipment

• Concentrating drying and deodorizing strategies using contained areas within the facility where we can control humidity, heat, air movement, and various stench-removing  techniques

Contents can experience significant flooding damage, but SERVPRO of South Miami offers solutions that minimize disruption and restore cherished possessions. Call (305) 269-8900 for a prompt assessment and recovery plan.