Joe's Job: Home Restoration Professional

by Joe Flanagan, 13News Now

WVEC.com

Posted on February 26, 2014 at 3:07 PM

Updated today at 3:56 PM

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Ever wonder who has the job of cleaning, restoring and refurbishing homes and buildings after fires or floods?

I trained with restoration professionals from Serv Pro in Virginia Beach. General Manager Justin Johnson and I worked at one house that sustained about $70,000 in damage from a frozen pipe.

"This used to be a full kitchen. We've had to remove the cabinets, remove the tile, we had to take up some of the floors so that way we can dry the sub-floors underneath. We had to remove some walls that were heavily saturated," said Project Supervisor Ryan Disler.

It takes a special person to walk in and do restoration work.

"It's not for everybody. We've had people that have come in and worked a couple days and just said, you know, this isn't for me," said Johnson.

Serv Pro helped clean up after an arson fire at Royster Presbyterian Church in Norfolk -- a project that lasted a year and a half and cost o$1.1 million.

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Joe's Job: Home Restoration Professional