Cleanfax, August 2013

Restoration CLEANFAX COM AUGUST 2013 Cleanfax 41 companies whose only business is forensic restoration Indeed an independent restoration mitigation company performing within their own field of expertise finds this difficult to make a profit as well In other words pricing is being set arbitrarily through the guide as opposed to the marketplace It is only the free market that can provide true value pricing that allows services and goods to be provided to customers and clients by stable companies making reasonable profits The result What has happened in the marketplace as a result of these price fixing measures To play in the price fixing game many contractors attend seminars where they are taught how to add line items to their invoices and make deals on terms with the insurance providers Every movement of their labor is logged and assigned a code that produces an invoice line item The consequence is a higher cost of the overall job Costs to the contractor in playing the game are added through purchase and third party pricing guides as to how their respective companies arrive at their pricing they have offered the explanation of surveys taken from contractors in each region then performed their calculations of each step covered within their system Averages were then formulated from those surveys However in speaking with many restoration contractors and from my own experiences the contracting world finds most of the charges to be arbitrary and skewed in favor of the insurance provider The contractor is left wondering why a supposed third party pricing guide would skew the price of their work one way or another For years now these pricing guides have been routinely ignored by the forensic restoration industry but with so many restoration and mitigation companies wanting to offer these services they are receiving unprecedented pressure from the insurance providers through pricing guides to play the price fixing game This adds instability to the marketplace Well seasoned companies who are mainly independent cannot survive as standalone Many independent contractors have been fighting this coercion from the insurance industry for years and have always been told by their adjusters to toe the line and quit crying lest they be effectively blacklisted from referrals and while many who try to play the game have gone out of business struggling against this collusion to make a profit Forensic restoration For many years now the forensic restoration industry FRI also known as the bio hazard industry has not been subjected to pricing guides for their operations Pricing has settled over the years through competition and risk assessment to a level of what is considered to be reasonable and customary for the work that is done within the industry Nothing in this world that deals with human blood and potential of disease has ever been cheap Yet the most popular third party pricing guides choose to look upon the forensic restoration industry as any other trade When Ive questioned representatives of PRODUCT FOCUS Disinfectants Benefect Decon 30 Decon 30 from Benefect is now EPA registered for use as a carpet sanitizer and to kill mold and mildew The botanical antimicrobial technology keeps getting better with this one step disinfectant and cleaner Decon 30 kills bacteria in only 30 seconds and is ideal for use on water damage mold carpet or even contents The lemon and thyme fragrance is very light and dissipates quickly Why would you use anything else 321 Concrobium Professional Restoration Products Concrobium Broad Spectrum Disinfectant Concrobium Broad Spectrum Disinfectant represents the next generation of plant based disinfection for professional restoration contractors The unique proprietary solution is botanically derived providing superior cleaning and users dont have to resort to applying additional products for disinfection With Concrobium Broad Spectrum Disinfectant pros can count on an EPA registered bactericide virucide and fungicide that contains no harmful chemicals The solution has no warning labels requires no PPE and can be fogged with a ULV fogger 322 ProRestore Products Microban BotaniClean Microban BotaniClean a leading alternative antimicrobial has some clear advantages over its competition Some claim to be non toxic but that doesnt mean non corrosive BotaniClean has a low pH of 35 05 compared to others that go as high as 111 115 which is quite corrosive on certain metals BotaniClean is a deodorizer includes a detergent and has broad spectrum efficacy as a virucide fungicide germicide and tuberculocide whereas one competitor claims efficacy only against mold with no viral bacterial or detergent claim In todays economy you want your dollars to stretch so choose the versatile EPA registered 34810 25 70385 category IV BotaniClean 323 Click for more Benefect info Click for more Concrobium info Click for more ProRestore Products info