When a commercial business suffers property loss due to flood, smoke, or storm, the damage extends beyond walls and ceilings. From essential equipment and inventory to important documents and electronics, the contents inside the building are often just as valuable as the structure itself for business prosperity. That is where content recovery comes in to play.
As a business owner, you may not be thinking about your contents prior to or during a disaster, but you will want to know what can be kept or restored quickly after a loss. Wolgast® Restoration’s Content Recovery Team will move quickly to prevent further damage and to quickly assess what can be saved.
What Is Content Recovery?
Content Recovery or Restoration is the process of identifying, documenting, cleaning, restoring, and temporarily storing items that have been subjected to smoke or water during disasters such as fire, flood, or storms. With our Content Restoration Team, items that can be salvaged often include office furniture, machinery, electronics, inventory, and critical documents to name a few. “For many businesses, the contents inside their building are as necessary as the building itself,” says Jeremy Wagner, Wolgast Restoration Division Manager. “Recovering those assets can make the difference between a quick rebound and permanent closure. We will do everything we can to help a business recover quickly and return to operation.”
The Content Recovery Process
Wolgast’s IICRC certified Content Recovery Team will inspect and document every item at the loss site using digital inventory tools to log damages. They are checking each item to determine if it can be recovered by our own sanitizing and deodorizing methods or those of our network of professionals. If the team determines that an item is likely to be salvaged, cleaning technicians carefully pack and transport them to our full-service facility.
Saved items go through extensive care for cleaning, deodorizing and full restoration using Ultrasonic Cleaning, Freeze Drying, or Ozone Generator to name a few. You may not believe the items that can be salvaged including files and company records. Wolgast’ team has the means to restore them and many more items through a network of professionals from smoke damaged electronics to soot covered furniture and even a water damaged valuable baseball card collection or pool table.
Once cleaning technicians restore your items to pre-loss condition, the team carefully packs, digitally documents, and stores them in a climate-controlled warehouse until your commercial property is ready for occupancy. We will move the contents back to your building when it is ready for move-in.
Why It Matters for Business
Time is money – especially for businesses recovering from a disaster. Efficient content recovery minimizes downtime and the cost of replacing expensive assets saving businesses thousands in replacement costs as well as critical business information.
The content recovery process also supports smoother insurance claims. Digital inventories and documentation provide detailed proof of loss and recovery, streamlining communication between property owners and insurance adjusters.
As restoration technology advances, content recovery is becoming an increasingly vital part of commercial disaster response and Wolgast has one of the best teams and facilities to complete this work.
855-WOLGAST is Wolgast Restoration’s 24-Hour Hotline number – store it in your phone as part of your recovery plan in the event of a building emergency.