What Is Involved in Emergency Damage Response and Repair?

When a disaster strikes your home or business, the damage can be catastrophic. Structural damage to your property can create health and safety hazards requiring costly repairs and often require you to replace items that have been damaged beyond repair.

It’s understandable to feel overwhelmed in the aftermath of a disaster, but prompt action is critical in these situations. Delays in making necessary repairs can make the damage to your property worse, increasing the repair costs significantly. For this reason, emergency damage response and repair services are essential to ensure you minimize the damage to your property and prevent repair costs from spiraling out of control.

When Are Emergency Damage Restoration Services Needed?

The following situations typically require emergency response services:

• Flooding – Whether it’s caused by a severe storm, a flood, or a plumbing issue, any water in your home or business is an emergency that requires prompt action. Immediate restoration services are necessary to minimize the severe structural damage that can occur after water damage, as well as to prevent mold growth.
  
  
• Smoke and fire damage – Fire and smoke can result in catastrophic damage to your home or business. Smoke and soot can spread throughout the property, resulting in health hazards. The structural damage caused by fires can create safety hazards. Emergency restoration services are often needed to ensure your home or business is safe to inhabit.
  
  
• Burst pipes – Burst pipes can result in wide scale water damage to your property, causing structural damage, mold growth, and damage to furniture and other personal belongings. Emergency response services are needed to prevent this damage from becoming more serious over time.
  
  
• Storm damage – Heavy rain, strong winds, and hail can damage roofs, windows and siding on your property. In addition, severe storms can cause flooding and other structural damage to your home or business, requiring immediate restoration services to prevent additional damage from developing.

Purpose of Emergency Damage Restoration Services

Emergency damage restoration services help limit the damage caused during a catastrophic event and prevent additional destruction from occurring when repairs are delayed. The quick response time associated with emergency restoration services not only helps you restore your property to its pre-loss condition as fast as possible, but also prevents additional damage that can cause repair costs to skyrocket.

From assessment and cleanup to reconstruction and repairs, these emergency services are crucial to ensuring your property is restored properly and in a timely manner. This will help you get back to living your normal life or resuming normal business activities with minimal stress and discomfort.

Emergency damage response services are performed to achieve the following goals:

• Minimize the extent of damage – Quick response times can help contain the damage that has occurred and prevent additional damage from developing. This can limit the severity of the health and safety hazards present after a disaster.
  
  
• Prevent secondary damage – When water damage is left untreated, your home or business becomes susceptible to additional damage that can threaten the structural integrity of the property and exacerbate any health and safety hazards you’re experiencing. Emergency response services are essential to prevent secondary damage such as mold growth and structural degradation from occurring.
  
  
• Restore your property – Once damage is contained, emergency response services will enter the restoration phase of the process to return your property back to its original condition. This is accomplished by performing all structural and cosmetic repairs and in severe cases, rebuilding structures that have been damaged beyond repair.

Services Included in Emergency Damage Response and Repair

The specific services included in your emergency damage response and repair will depend on the exact type of damage you’ve experienced. In general, emergency damage response and repair services involve a combination of:

• Water damage restoration – Our team will identify and stop the source of water to limit the damage, extract any water, remove wet materials, dry your property, clean and disinfect any items that have been damaged, and restore all property and structures to their pre-loss condition.
  
  
• Smoke and fire damage restoration – Our team will engage in a meticulous process to address any damage caused by smoke and fire, including board up of damaged doors, windows to secure the property, extract any standing water that develops while extinguishing the fire, removing and cleaning any fire damaged items and building materials, cleaning and deodorizing the property to remove soot and eliminate smoke odors, and performing all reconstruction to address the needed repairs.
  
  
• Mold remediation – Our team will perform comprehensive mold remediation to remove all mold from damaged surfaces and prevent mold regrowth.
  
  
• Reconstruction – Cousino is a full-service restoration contractor and can perform all repairs and reconstruction services necessary to address the damage and return your property to its original condition.

Cousino Restoration & Environmental Provides 24/7 Emergency Damage Response Services

When disaster strikes, it’s critical to work with a professional restoration company that has the expertise and resources to perform these services correctly. At Cousino Restoration & Environmental, we offer 24/7 emergency damage response services throughout Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Our team is available 24/7 to address any damage caused by water or fire.

Our team has been recognized as the industry leader in emergency restoration services for over 45 years. Our team of specialists are fully trained and able to address all your emergency needs. We use the latest equipment and techniques to ensure all services are performed properly and your property is restored to its pre-loss condition as soon as possible. In addition, we can handle all communications with your insurance company to facilitate a smooth process throughout the project.

Contact us today to schedule an appointment. Cousino Restoration & Environmental serves customers in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.