My career in restoration has been an exciting one, taking me from the West Coast to the East Coast and back again. I began estimating for my own business starting back in 1989. Since then, prices for things have gone up, as you well know, as has the complexity of the estimating process. What was once a simple act has grown into a technical field all its own, and this development has led to a lack of good qualified estimators in the disaster restoration industry.
Summer may be winding down, but Mother Nature - apparently - is not. Predictions for the Atlantic Coast hurricane season (June 1 through Nov. 30) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there could be 12 to 16 named tropical storms before all wind is blown and gone - and this includes two to five major hurricanes.
One
of the greatest threats of water infiltration into a building often is
often overlooked – the potentially irreparable damage to paper
documents, microfiche, film and other records that become wet, soaked
or soiled.
It was the phone call no one wants to receive. Robert Sheeley, associate vice president of facilities at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn., was awakened in the early hours of the morning the day before Thanksgiving.
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