School starts Monday. The wedding is in three weeks. Someone wants the Fort Worth house "back" before the assembly is dry. That is how you hang rock on a wet plate and paint a fire-stained bay. Reconstruction starts when the building is known — not when the calendar is loud. Mitigation vs rebuild is its own post. This page is the wait.
Service map: PRC home. Rebuild still waits on a dry standard — reconstruction after the meters, not after the calendar.
If water is still running or the house is open, call us. Do not wait on the form. Coverage follows the policy. We document.
What you see on arrival
Westover Hills flood cut still reading wet at the plate. Southlake hail-opened deck with insulation on the attic floor and a bedroom that 'only needs paint.' Fort Worth kitchen fire, cabinets still in, hose water in the hall. Aledo mechanical room that dumped into the slab. Photograph as-found. If water is moving, extract first — towels are not extraction. Board the opening if weather can write a second loss. Emergency. Board-up.
The pressure is real. The plate does not care. A Fort Worth living room hung wet will telegraph for years. That is not a schedule win.
What is wet or damaged that you cannot see
The plate behind the cut. Pad past the stain. Soot in the return. Char in the bay that looks like stain from the room. Thermal is a hint. The number is a meter against unaffected material of the same type in this house. ANSI/IICRC S500 for wet assemblies. ANSI/IICRC S700 for fire residue. Structural drying. Fire. Thermal.
Open the bay you are about to close. If the meter is not at the dry reference, it is not a rebuild day. It is another drying day.
What comes out vs what stays
Category 3 pad comes out. Paper that will not hit dry standard comes out. Charred framing that will not take a load comes out. Occupied millwork in Rivercrest stays if Category 1 and the cavity will dry. Hardwood is its own call. Finish of what goes back has to match what was there — Level 5. Salvage vs tear-out.
Do not 'just skim' a fire-stained ceiling to make a listing photo. Residue class first. Then the finish. Encapsulation is not a cover for skipped demo.
What the log contains
The rebuild log is the drying log plus the as-built. If those two files do not talk, the punch list will.
When the family stays vs leaves
They stay when the wet band is contained, electric is safe, the floor holds, and it is not sewage in the sleeping rooms. They leave when it is not. ALE is the carrier. We do not promise a hotel.
Families want to come home. That is ALE and livability, not a reason to hang wet rock. Say when the house is actually ready.
What the first estimate usually misses
Drying days. The wet plate. Finish level. Adjacent rooms. HVAC after a fire. In Texas you choose the contractor. A program list is optional. Texas Department of Insurance. TDI bulletin B-0017-17. If the PDF is a hallway number, estimate review.
A rebuild estimate written before demolition is a guess. After the finishes are off, write the real one. Review the first PDF if it already exists.
When rebuild starts
Dry standard first. Then rock, paint, millwork, floor. Hail-opened deck: roof and attic in the same file as the room — roofing, then rebuild. Occupied millwork: dry the cavity, then finish as found. Fort Worth. Southlake. Westover Hills.
Then hang, skim, paint, millwork, floor — as found. Occupied millwork and Level 5 planes take time because the house had time when it was built.
Call us. Photos on contact once the source is stopped. The calendar is not the meter.