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Paul Davis Restoration

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Author: Kaitlyn Short

LAST UPDATED: November 21st, 2024

Founded in 1966, Paul Davis Restoration is a full-service property emergency service and restoration provider with more than 300 independently operated and owned franchises throughout the United States and Canada. 

Property damage can be devastating for a family or business and restoration or reconstruction of properties can be complex. Paul Davis Restoration strives to streamline restoration and reconstruction services by providing multiple services through one point of contact, cutting costs, and minimizing disruption. 

The company's residential and commercial restoration services include the following:

  • Water and flood damage restoration
  • Fire and smoke damage restoration
  • Wind and storm damage restoration
  • Trauma and biohazard clean up
  • Mold remediation
  • COVID-19 services

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The Good

  • Emergency Response
  • History of Innovation
  • Quality Assurance Department
  • Training and Certifications
  • Commitment to Sustainability

Emergency Response

In cases of property damage, timely remediatory action by a restoration company is critical. All Paul Davis Restoration franchisees are ready to respond to crises through their 24/7 hour services. The company promises to have a first contact within 30 minutes and arrive at the property within hours. Once onsite, Paul Davis Restoration provides prompt assessments and immediately mitigates further damage.

History of Innovation

With over 50 years in the property damage emergency services and restoration industry, Paul Davis Restoration has provided breakthroughs in technology such as computerized estimates and new water damage assessment and monitoring technology. MICA, the company's web-based monitoring tool used in water damage reparations, takes efficient and accurate data during the drying process and makes it available for insurance clients through a simple dashboard.

Paul Davis Restoration also uses thermal imaging that assesses water damage and leaks without having to tear down drywall or pull up carpet, cutting on costs and saving time. This technology is also used to provide more photographic evidence and justification of repairs to insurance adjusters. Generally, damaged soft content items such as clothes, blankets, and leather goods have been cleaned through dry cleaning. Paul Davis Restoration avoids the dry cleaners with its cost-efficient advanced washing systems that use effective, environmentally friendly detergents to restore food-grade quality clean items. 

Quality Assurance Department

Reputable property emergency service and restoration companies will work closely with insurance companies on a client's behalf, reducing stress in a difficult situation. Paul Davis Restoration has a Quality Assurance Department staffed with experienced restoration insurance professionals that provide clients assistance in collecting data, writing and reviewing estimates, and negotiating with insurance adjusters.

Training and Certifications

Clients who select Paul Davis Restoration as their property emergency service and restoration company have the reassurance that their property is in experienced hands. To ensure the highest standard of quality service, Paul Davis Restoration franchise technicians must complete training through IIRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification) courses. Paul Davis Restoration's training facility, located at its headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, provides the best-in-class training through its IIRC approved "flood" house, training modules, and various restoration courses.

Commitment to Sustainability

Paul Davis Restoration uses green cleaning products. The restoration and reconstruction company is dedicated to reducing its environmental impact by using more natural ingredients. Property owners concerned with the cleaning products' contents can check out Paul Davis Restoration's ingredient disclosure statement to learn more. 

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The Bad

  • Preferred Vendor Program

Preferred Vendor Program

It may not be in a property owner's best interest to use their insurance company's preferred providers when selecting a property emergency service and restoration company. Insurance companies want clients to use preferred providers because the insurance company has special pricing arrangements with preferred providers. 

As a preferred provider, the restoration company will try to keep the prices low to maintain the partnership. This pricing arrangement may affect the amount of work and money a client gets in their insurance claim. Paul Davis Restoration has a national business development team that works to become preferred vendors with insurance companies.

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The Bottom Line

Paul Davis Restoration has fifty years of experience in the property emergency services and restoration industry. Through its history of innovation and state-of-the-art training certifications, clients have the reassurance that their property will be minutely taken care of from the assessment through its restoration or reconstruction. 

Paul Davis Restoration takes additional stress off of a client by working with insurance companies on clients' claims and providing multiple services through one contact point. We recommend asking if Paul Davis Restoration is a preferred provider with a client's insurance company and how that may affect a claim before hiring.

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Roger Allen

Great job in cleaning up the water and drying out walls. Poor service on going to Lows and Home Depot and selecting wood paneling. Surprise when our old paneling was $37 a panel and they offered us only $11. Another surprise when to finish off the bedroom you missed the false ceiling and a contractor never showed that you arranged for. We went with Lows for carpet with free labor and had nothing but problems. 4 times they came out and they had to reorder carpet and made huge mistakes. It was a bad experience for us from the Insurance Company Bear River, You the restoration company, Lows carpets. I realize this is the exception, but it happened to up. SUGGESTIONS: Have one person over all the restoration instead of different people for different parts of the business. Your boys are handling 70 to 100 clients at one time. They are over worked and stressed out. You make good money make sure we get good service.

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Vallecillos

They were great to deal with, but after moving the furniture that was put away, we realized that it was kind of shoddy work. For example, the guy that they hired for the baseboard, instead of bewing flat to the ground, it was raised up and didn't even touch the floor. It was covered by a bed that used to be there so we never saw that because after the work was done, everything was back how it was. Some of the planks that were replaced weren't laid right and nowthere's gaps in between. Customer service was good.

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Lucero

They were very polite and told me everything's gonna be okay. The people who work for them came through to provide the service and really did show empathetic value. They did an excellent job of restoring the home. It took a very long time for that to happen. When it came to the loss of my items, they were here for quite a while taking pictures and inventory of everything that I owned. They didn't send me back any pictures or send it to my insurance company or anybody. It kind of felt like a privacy violation because people were digging through our things.

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Chelsea

Every time I contacted them they got back to me. They completed the job exactly how we wanted it. The actual contractor had a little bit of issues but the customer service part was good.

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Buck

At the beginning there was not much communication, but then I got a different person to help me and he was amazing. They did an amazing job and I'm happy with it.

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Laurie

I was satisfied with the demolition clean up--the repair parts, no. They were two differen crews, two different superintendants, and totally different. Day and night.

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Brenda

The hard thing about Paul Davis is that they serve the insurance company over the client. I had a great experience with the employees and Paul Davis.

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Kerry

Our son recommended them. They team took foreve to send me my final check of a thousand dollars they owed me. The clean up went okay.

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