FLOODS IN COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS AND YOUR NEED TO ACT IMMEDIATELY

You provide your tenants at your high-rise commercial building with a pleasant place to work as much as a building that immediately impresses. You have spent years cultivating your brand as a commercial real estate owner and investor, and you treat every property as though you and your family will be living in it and you spare no expense when it comes to safety measures such as fire prevention and earthquake-proofing.

​As hard as you work, deep down you know that it’s impossible to keep a personal eye on every office, every suite and every nook and cranny of your building. There are thousands of people who make use of the space every day and night, and you trust the management infrastructure in place to handle almost any unforeseen circumstance that could ever arise. Preventative measures may seem like up-front costs, but you know from experience that they save in the way of stress and unforeseen expenses.
One night you get a phone call– the sprinklers in your building have been activated because a small office fire started. The fire alone did not inflict too much damage, but the deluge of water that sprayed onto one of the top floors of your building had to go somewhere. The biggest problem is it continues to travel into places that will be very difficult to reach.
There are many steps that need to be taken as soon as possible, and you waste no time in getting those steps handled. These actions include:

• Contacting your insurance company
• Assessing the damage
• Trying to figure out how to stem the tide of the sprinkler water
• Forming some sort of guess as to how long your building will be out of commission

This is a terrible situation for you to face for obvious reasons, and despite all of your work, training and experience you feel completely overwhelmed. As much as you have dedicated your life to handling these problems efficiently, you find out now that you really are not sure of what needs to be done to solve this problem.
This is where J&M Keystone, Inc. comes in and can help you begin to put the pieces of the situation back together. The team of flood remediation experts will arrive at your property within 60 minutes of your call to us, no matter what time of day or day of the week you make that call. We will work directly with your insurance company to get the claims process started, and we will work with fire officials in order to get the clearance needed to start the cleanup process.
The flood technicians will remove the flood water, clean up the fire scene, dry out any areas that are wet to prevent mold from forming and help you obtain an understanding of when you can once again open your building for business. If you face this type of a disaster, contact J&M Keystone, Inc. before you call anyone else.