Always Listen To Your Water Damage Contractor
If you're a contractor or a homeowner who has hired
contractors, there's a good chance that you will be able to relate to
the things that you're about to hear. Every once in a while, people make
mistakes, but making them right is the difference between good
contractors and bad ones.
A water damage contractor gets called during the middle of the night to
respond to a water leak and he arrives within 25 minutes to shut the
water off and stop the water damage. It's in the middle of the night, so
the contractor works for a couple of hours and gets most of the water
out of the carpeting, before going home to get some rest and come back
later that day.
The water damage contractor explained to the homeowner that he would
need to remove some of the drywall that was damaged by the water leak.
The homeowner refused and actually got upset at the water damage
contractor. “ You don't need to do any more work then you have to,” said
the homeowner.
The water damage contractor wasn't a very aggressive person but the
homeowner definitely was. If you could imagine a homeowner built like a
football player, yelling at a child, you would get a pretty good idea,
about what was actually happening.
The water damage contractor finished cleaning what he could and treating
the carpeting, gave the homeowner his bill and left. This is the
important part of the story that you need to remember. A professional
water damage contractor gave the homeowner some great advice, but the
homeowner refused to accept it.
Within a few months the water damage contractor got another phone call
from this hysterical homeowner. Stating that he had been ripped off and
the contractor took advantage of him. The mold was growing on the walls
that the contractor needed to remove and dry out. It was a good thing
that the homeowner remembered the conversation, calmed down and
apologized to the contractor.
I don't know how many people think that contractors are trying to take
advantage of them, but the least you could do is listen to them every
once in awhile. They just might be right. When it comes to water damage,
you should pay attention to your emergency repair contractor.