Andrew Titley, owner and president of Prism Specialties of San Francisco Bay Area, shares why he sees a contents restoration franchise as a good investment.

SERVPRO of Southeast Nashville responded to a historic church after a fire damaged a large portion of its sanctuary. A heater caused the curtains to catch fire, which spread to the walls, damaging drywall, plaster, the stage, roofing tiles and deposited smoke and soot onto the pews, throughout the structure.

What is thermal tracking? What causes it? Is it a sudden occurrence? Is it a mechanical failure? Is it a maintenance issue? Can burning candles cause it? Will your insurance cover damage caused by thermal tracking? Annissa discusses all this and more in this weeks Ask Annissa!

It seems like only yesterday that I first saw abrasive media blasting in use on an architectural restoration job – a fire-damaged, limestone church in central Illinois.

On the morning of October 10, 2014, a dust collector fire broke out at the F.C. Dadson, Greenville, WI manufacturing facility, resulting in significant smoke and soot damage throughout the 60,000 square-foot fabrication and finished product shop, as well as the 9,000 square-foot office area. 

On October 26, 2013, firefighters responded to a fire at Tampa, Florida’s Yuengling Brewery to discover sections of the 100-foot roof and the side of the structure engulfed in flames. 

In the late hours of July 31, 2013 a fire started in the northwest corner of the 25,000-square-foot field house gymnasium at Waukesha North High School and left the 40-year-old Milwaukee-area school devastated with fire, smoke and soot damage.