When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, restoration and remediation companies from around the country responded to help with recovery.

Who better to get advice from on the challenges of working catastrophic events than the professionals that have been doing it for years.

When a hailstorm causes property damage, many people think just the roof is affected.

In the days leading up to Christmas 2013, severe ice storms hit Lakeview, MI – a small 1,000-person village located about 50 miles to the northeast of Grand Rapids.

From late June 2014 and into early July, two separate strings of storms swept over central Iowa, producing as many as 11 tornadoes, and knocking down telephone poles, downing trees and flooding out homes.

There is a growing demand for roofing contractors in the restoration industry and this provides an excellent opportunity for general contractors.

If you’ve spent any amount of time in the water damage restoration industry, surely you are familiar with this scenario.

Every restoration business owner I talk to in the metro Detroit area is quick to tell me what a busy winter they had, thanks to the polar vortex leading to lots of broken pipes and water losses. And it appears that this August is shaping up nicely for them too thanks to record rainfall in southeast Michigan Monday afternoon.

It was April 2014 when heavy rainfall in the Birmingham, Alabama area left roads flooded, properties damaged and several inches of standing water everywhere. The nearby community of Vestavia was particularly impacted by the rainfall – notably Hollywood Imports, a pre-owned luxury vehicle dealership.

ServiceMaster by Gilmore has joined The ServiceMaster Recovery Management (SRM) division as one of 10 strategically placed locations throughout the country, according to a press release