Time and Material Pricing - Commercial Jobs in Miami and Miami Beach

5/29/2017 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Miami Beach workers gathered in the night-time hours to clean up at a fire-damage facility in Miami-Dade County in 2017.

What a mess.

Your commercial property has just been hit by a disaster. A broken sprinkler line. A busted AC hose. Or a fire, which is usually a double-whammy -- smoke damage compounded by water damage from the fire/water suppression systems. The latter scenario could become a triple whammy - it could quickly turn into a mold problem if you don't mitigate the damage. Now. 

The time for decisions is now. Waiting could lead to further secondary damages, and costly downtime for your business.  You know you have to clean it up, but the task is way too large. You are scared to know which contractor to hire to do the job. You're vulnerable, exposed, and at the possibly at the mercy of a price-gouging restoration contractor looking to make its year from your loss. We've heard it all a million times.

How to make some order out of this chaos? First things first -- take some solace in the thought that you don't have to get gouged. Choose a restoration contractor that has an established, juried price list that has been tried and tested on many large-scale losses. At SERVPRO of Miami Beach, we call this the SERVPRO "Time and Material" price list. This is a published, oft-tested price list for labor rates, consumable materials and equipment rentals. It has been on losses ranging from ten of thousands of dollars to tens of millions of dollars.

The principal benefit is that the price list is known and approved in the marketplace. Most likely, if your commercial property is insured by an insurance carrier who's been around the block, they probably have encountered the same price list on previous losses at other businesses. They'll know that the prices on this list are fair, standard and customary. They've probably paid on on losses billed from this price list before. They'll take comfort that SERVPRO is on the job because they aren't going to have to delay work to negotiate prices for the job. They know workers will be able to get right to the job, to minimize business interruption and minimize secondary damage caused by delays.

We're not kidding anyone. It's a traumatic situation. Disasters such as fires and water damage can push a business to the brink. But having  an established pricing system that is tested in the marketplace can take much of the worry out of the restoration efforts.

If you would like to see our standard "time and material" price list for commercial losses,