As co-founder of Total Contentz, Barb Jackson, CR, assists disaster restoration professionals improve their contents processing capabilities with the latest technology and procedures. She offers consulting and training services for full-service restorers and specialized cleaning contractors. You can reach her at barb@totalcontentz.com.
Adjusters, long-time contractors and even self-styled “experts” will try to tell you that it is impossible to restore wet books, film, electronics and even photographs.
When Tim Ferriss, best-selling author of The 4-hour Work Week, told an intern to find three possible movie theaters to rent out for the James Bond premiere of Quantum of Solace as a “thank you” to his readers, he explained exactly what he needed.
In my years of working with restoration companies in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, one of the most common threads tying them together is...
Restoration companies continue to expand and enhance their contents processing division. The goals of a successful, profitable division are to expand their capabilities to be able to restore more items in-house, increase productivity, and increase volume processing while minimizing liabilities and increasing profitability.
In recent years many restoration companies have begun concentrating time and resources on the contents processing portion of our industry, of which pack outs are a major factor.
It seems that in the last few years a hot topic has been contents restoration. There is so much more information available in industry publications, more contents vendors at trade shows, and increased subject matter delivered on industry programs.
