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Essential Questions To Ask Your Insurance Agent After Fire Or Smoke Damage

Experiencing a fire in your home can be an unexpected and overwhelming experience. The destructive nature of fire often leads those who experience it through a whirlwind of emotions.

It’s crucial to contact your insurance agent when grappling with the aftermath of fire or smoke damage in your home. Your agent quickly becomes a lifeline to help you navigate the complexities and logistics of filing a claim and understanding your coverage.

We’ll walk you through the critical questions and things you should consider to make informed decisions and minimize your stress after a fire.

Tips For Preventing Fires With Your Holiday Lights And Decorations

The holidays are a special time of year when we get to adorn our homes with festive gear like sparkling lights, cheerful decorations, and the warm glow of candles. While this seasonal decor makes for a beautiful sight, it’s also important to remember to prioritize safety.

We’ve put together a few tips to consider when putting up your holiday lights and decorations to help you prevent a fire during this joyful season.

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How To Use Space Heaters Safely This Winter

As the chill of fall and winter settle into northeastern Indiana, there’s nothing quite like the warmth of a space heater to keep you snug and comfortable in your home.

These compact devices are a popular choice for adding extra heat to specific areas of a home, allowing you to create a toasty sanctuary without cranking up the thermostat for the entire house. However, it’s crucial to use them responsibly to ensure your comfort and safety.

Here are a few essential tips to make sure that you’re safely using a space heater in your home during the winter months.

Kitchen fire while cooking

Fire Safety Tips To Keep Your Kitchen Cooking All Year

Home-cooked meals can bring people together, build joyful memories, and create opportunities to share stories. While cooking may seem like a routine activity, it can be dangerous. With the second week of October being Fire Safety Week, it’s a great time to talk about fire safety while cooking.

Cooking is the leading cause of fires in homes, accounting for 49% of all fires. It’s also the leading cause of fire-related injuries at 41%.

Fortunately, with a little bit of attention to care and a little extra preparedness, you can prevent fire damage and injury from cooking. Let’s take a look at a few tips that could help you prevent a fire in your kitchen while you’re cooking.

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Why You Need A Dehumidifier In Your Basement Or Crawlspace

A basement’s home or crawlspace is one of the most critical aspects of the entire house. It’s also one of the most overlooked and neglected. Basements and crawlspaces are humid, dark, and poorly ventilated parts of the home, but they require just as much care as the rest of your house to maintain a healthy living space.

Fortunately, a dehumidifier can help with or solve many conditions that basements experience. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons you need a dehumidifier in your basement or crawlspace.

Water damage in home

How To Tell If Water Damage Is New Or Old

At some point in our lives, we’ve all probably seen an unsightly, brown stain on the ceiling of a home. It’s a telltale sign: water damage. When you’re a homeowner (or looking to buy a home). you may wonder how recent the water damage is, and if you should be concerned.

Let’s take a look at a few of the ways you can determine if water damage is new or old and what you can do to remedy it.

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When Should A Biohazard Cleanup Company Be Called?

When most people see or hear the word biohazard, images of people in hazmat suits, respirators, and containment zones likely pop into their head.

In television and movies, biohazard crews with these set ups are usually dealing with high-risk or life-threatening biohazards like tuberculosis and Ebola.

In our day-to-day lives, we’re not likely to need biohazard cleanup companies for things like that, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t situations where these professionals are needed.

Let’s take a look at what is classified as a biohazard and when a biohazard cleanup company should be called to remediate the issue.

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Paul Davis Of Northeast Indiana: The Difference Makers In Your Time Of Need

When you think about restoration services, you probably think about wet floors, smoke-stained walls, or even total reconstruction and repair of a home. While that’s the work that a restoration expert performs, at Paul Davis Restoration of Northeast Indiana that’s only part of the job.

At Paul Davis, our employees are Difference Makers — we make it our priority to provide extraordinary care and concern while serving people in their time of need.

Cleaning smoke damage from wall

How To Clean Smoke Damage From Your Walls

A fire of any size can create smoke and soot that damages your home’s walls and ceiling.

If you have smoke damage in your home and are considering cleaning it yourself, there are a couple things you need to take into consideration. You’ll need to judge the extent of the smoke damage as well as the texture of your walls and ceiling.

If your home has suffered heavy damage from smoke, you’re going to need to call the professionals directly. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could make things worse — and more costly — for yourself.

Storms and flooding damage homes

Common Causes Of Storm Damage

We get all kinds of different weather in northern Indiana.
The biggest offenders when it comes to causes of storm damage tend to be water-related.
Even if we can’t 100% predict the weather, we can predict the common causes of damage created during a storm. Let’s take a look at the different types of damage you can expect from storms and what to do after the clouds clear.