After a Fire: The Importance of Contents Management

1/15/2020 (Permalink)

The SERVPRO of Springfield/Greene County contents management team. Front to Back, Clara, Leah and Emily (missing Lynsey)

Have you ever wondered what happens to the contents of a property after a devastating fire loss? Some items are damaged beyond help but what about those items that are not?   It can be a very overwhelming and emotional time.  There are several phases of restoring a fire damaged property, these include: Mitigation, Contents Management, cleaning, deodorizing and reconstruction.  In this blog we will focus on Contents Management.  The SERVPRO of Springfield/Greene County Contents Manager will come to your property and help you walk through this process, you might be surprised what items can be restored through the cleaning and deodorization process.

 Our team starts by assessing the scope of the work needed, prioritize items that need immediate restorative action.  Items like clothing, sentimental objects, valuables, etc. are usually addressed quickly to prevent further damage.  Once those items are removed our team gets to work on other items.    Our contents management team brings all the supplies needed to your property such as boxes, tape and bubble wrap and then carefully packs away your items safe and ready for transport.   They will also utilize our Content Management packout software which prints individual QR Codes that have an itemized list of the contents in each box and also our customers name and information to keep things organized.  Once the boxes are transported back to our cleaning facility they are carefully unloaded one box at a time and the cleaning and deodorizing process begins.  Some items go into our ozone chamber room white other items are restored with our cutting edge Fireline system which uses ultrasonic submersion tanks and dryers.

 Once the contents are cleaned and deodorized they are packed again in clean packing materials and stored in vaults in our warehouse until needed. 

SERVPRO of Springfield/Greene County has the knowledge and experience to help you through this process, we would be happy to answer any questions you have regarding this process, you can contact us at 417-865-7711, we are Here to Help.