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So, I’m shopping for a new living room rug. I’m not a big fan of the natural wool rugs anymore since our living room gets so much traffic and it seems to shed at a steady pace even though I’ve owned it for over 3 years. Shopping online, I find Read More

Stop! Before Filing an Insurance Claim Whether you know it or not, you have a CLUE report (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange). Essentially, this is the report insurance companies use to determine how much you pay. Even just a call to your insurance company Read More

For those that don’t know, during the current crisis many companies are being forced to either limit what they do, or close down completely. This applies mainly to what are deemed nonessential industries. Essential industries are urged to Read More

What is coronavirus (COVID-19)? Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). Read More

Whether you know it or not, you have a C.L.U.E. report (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange). 82% of Americans don’t know they even have a CLUE report. Essentially, this is the report insurance companies use to determine how much you pay. You might compare it to your credit report, but Read More

Our industry has an S500 book, produced by the IICRC. This is an ASNI developed standard of care for our industry. Insurance adjusters as well as contractors all consider this the definitive authority when it comes to our water mitigation, cleaning, and restoration Read More

As a large family of viruses, the 2019 novel coronavirus-Wuhan (2019-nCoV) has a tendency to infect bats - which may jump from animals to humans through intermediate animal reservoirs. With many thousands of confirmed cases and hundreds of deaths of the respiratory infection, Read More

Shut off all your outside water faucets and disconnect the garden houses.   Insulate! Wrap pipe insulation around the pipes you can see in your attic or under your home. Strap foam blocks around the outside water faucets around your house. Use heating elements Read More

Most every house or commercial building has some amount of air infiltration. In the winter time, the cold outside air finds a way into some vulnerable areas of your house. Even without air infiltration, you get the effects of thermal heat or cold transference—heat energy escaping and cold Read More

Typically this is how you might feel when you discover a water a leak. But you know what, that's the right response. The reason it's the right response, is because water leaks can cause major damage quickly. All the questions start rolling through your head, and you start to get frantic. No need Read More