SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point Employee of the Month

8/15/2016 (Permalink)

Mr. Ramon is a hardworking individual with a very customer service frame of mind.

It doesn’t go without saying that all of our employees are hardworking individuals who strive daily to bring forth the best customer service in water/fire restoration and mold remediation.  In the month of July 2016 we asked our Crew Chiefs and Project Managers to put forth the name of one of our technicians who was going above and beyond the call of SERVPRO Ready.  With unanimous vote and second thought, there was a clear winner that our July Employee of the Month would be Mr. Ramon. Among the crew members the stories shared of just how far he goes to care for customers belongings and how quickly and effectively he is able to perform his work duties on the daily really made it clear that Mr. Ramon was an employee we are lucky to have. Thanks Mr. Ramon for being the hard worker you are and we hope you enjoy the special SERVPRO goodies.

Restoration Company Red Flags for Laguna Beach/Dana Point Residents

7/28/2016 (Permalink)

From start to finish, we are the one stop shop, call SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point at (949)-831-6201

 SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point recently had the opportunity to go out to a job site in Newport Beach as a consultant for an insurance company. We arrived at the customer’s home to inspect the work of another restoration company that on been on site for several hours. The customer had a supply line to the toilet in the upstairs bathroom burst earlier that day. The water flooded the bathroom and a family room below. The carpet on both levels was soaking wet. The furniture was sitting on the soaking wet carpet.

 The restoration company (Service First Restoration) had not even bothered to extract the water from the carpet or move the furniture from the carpet itself. When I asked them why, the technician in charge on site stated that the extractor was too heavy for him to lift by himself.  They had sent over only one technician to the job site. I recommended to the customer to get extraction immediately. Then the story changed. The technician said he didn’t even have an extractor on his truck. He said he would use a “shop vac” to extract the water from the carpet. These "shop vacs" are cheap and inexpensive and never get the job done properly, especially for the large loss this customer was going through at this time. That should have been the first red flag for the insured. The “restoration company” didn’t even have the correct tools to correctly remove the water.

The customer also had an extensive collection of displayed fine China and figurines worth thousands of dollars each. This is where the second red flag was waved. The restoration company didn’t do contents handling. They were going to call another company to handle it for them instead of having their own employees be trained and handle it right away.

Red Flag number three came as an extension to red flag #2; the “contents company” (Alpha) that was being brought on started talking about taking all the contents off site and wanted to bill thousands of dollars to store goods that the homeowner could have stored right on site. 

After all of these red flags the customer decided she had enough and asked the other restoration company to leave. SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point took over the project, started extraction of the moisture from the carpet straight away with the correct equipment.  Expertly packing the fine China and figurines and leaving them on site in the customer’s care and to the customer’s liking. We minimized the amount of damage and cost involved. Then we set up containment for drying and dust control and properly dried out the structure. Once this was complete, the restoration and repairs estimate was prepared and executed on time and on budget so as to benefit the customer entirely.

Give SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point a call at (949)-831-6201 or contact us online here. SERVPRO of Laguna Beach/Dana Point will make it "Like it never even happened".

Creating Happy Customers in Our Laguna Beach & Dana Point Community

5/26/2016 (Permalink)

Just a few quick pics taken at our SERVPRO corporate office.

Just recently a few managers in our office had the opportunity to travel back to the SERVPRO corporate for a five day long training course. We were warmly welcomed and made to feel at home very quickly. It was easy to see the amount of time and energy that went into the numerous presentation and workshops that we attended. There is a reason why SERVPRO has become the number one water damage restoration company in the nation and continues to further distance themselves from the competition.

It is because the purpose of SERVPRO corporate, and the over 1,700 franchises, has remained the same year after year, "happy customers", It's a message that the franchises do not take lightly. Sure, we were reminded of the importance of building the brand and being professional. We were kept up to date on technical advancements and the newly revised IICRC S500 standard for Water Damage. We were given advice on how to properly staff and grow our business. But at the end of the day all of that information was for the sole purpose of creating a happy customer. Although each franchise is independently owned and operated, I truly believe that most of the franchise owners have the sole purpose of creating happy customers.

It's easy to get caught up in the day to day operations and employee drama that exists in every workplace, but our customers rely on us to make a disaster better, not add to the stress of it all and make it worse. To take the damage of a fire, sewage backup, water loss or mold situation and make it better, to make it "Like it never even happened", that is what our goal is at the start and end of each job. After a hard day of cleaning soot from walls, extracting water from carpet or removing sewage from a flooded crawlspace, all of us here at SERVPRO take pride in the true purpose of our company...creating happy customers.

If you don't want to take our word for it, feel free to check out the words from our some of our previous happy customers here .

Or there is always the voice of yelp that will help you hear just how well we treat our customers.

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