When you have water flooding your house or building, who do you call first? Insurance or emergency repair?

Question

We're trying to find out how important an ad in yellow pages is for an emergency flood company. Or, do people just called their insurance and use whoever they recommend?

Answer 1

Any insurance company would prefer, in the case of an emergency like a tree limb crashing through a roof, to make whatever emergency repairs are necessary immediately to prevent further damage, even if it is just covering the affected area with a tarp. If water is flooding your house, the first thing you need to do is to try to stop the flooding to prevent more water damage, and call the insurance company as soon as that is done. Protect the property first, then call the insurance. After all, they are going to pay and do not want a delay in making emergency repairs to cause more damage.

Answer 2

Most people call insurance first to get it approved, however, they still need someone to come fix it right away. So a yellow page ad would work. I, being a business owner, found that yellow books dont really generate that much business and cost quite a bit. Most people use the web to look stuff up. You can advertise on any search for little or no money. Superpages.com, Whitepages.com, etc. It probably depends on the type of business though.

Answer 3

Frequently if you use a major company for flood cleanup, they will already have connections to most all the major insurance companies and can help with the paper work necessary to get it accomplished. Their ads should state whether they do insurance work.

Answer 4

I went through a few hurricanes last year, so I ABSOLUTLEY know the answer to this.

You call emergency repair first!!!!!!! The quicker you get things fixed, the less damage there will be, and therefore the cheaper it will be for the insurance company to fix it. Document everything before it is fixed, but certainly fix it as soon as humanly possible!!!!

Answer 5

Most people call repair first if there is an active flooding problem then ask insurance about clean up and/or reimbursment,

Answer 6

in case your moms and dads left the homestead for 3 months without turning off the water they did not use the right precautions to avert the leak. the rules are different for an unoccupied homestead than for an occupied homestead--your moms and dads had a duty to guard their property by using "winterizing"- clearing the pipes and turning the water off. besides, if the homestead changed into unoccupied for that lengthy, they ought to have made provisions for proper insurance earlier they took their vacation. Your moms and dads are interior the incorrect. An insurer has the right to check out and adjust their reaction depending upon the circumstances. Too undesirable. Your moms and dads had a severe priced lesson.

Answer 7

Call Superman, he will vaporize all the water with his lazer vision. Call your insurance and then they will call the repair people cause they have all the repair people on their list that they use and they trust.

Answer 8

Call your insurance company, it will be a much easier move

Answer 9

I get my wet and dry vac out, an start sucking the water up, and tossing it out...

I had 4 inches of water in my basement, (brother in law left hose in pool, it siphoned it back into the basement), sucked out over 55 gallons of water... with wet dry vac...never called restoration or anyone like that...

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 10

i think call emergency repair first.quicker you get things fixed, the less damage there will be, and therefore the cheaper.