[Andrew Briscoe]

Is anyone busy with flood work with all the rain around the country,
or has this type of work dryed up  :

Andrew

[Paul Moss]

Flood restoration has gone down the pan

[Billy Russell]

Flood restoration has gone down the pan

Only because they realised your crap at it! 

 

[Derek_Walker]

Don't you mean down the drain 

[Owen R]

Down the drain is right.
Here, in West Wales, we've just had some of the worst flooding ever recorded, BUT I haven't had one job as yet.
I have thousands of pounds worth of equipment siting in my workshop gathering dust and I'm seriously thinking of packing it all in.

[John Kelly]

Flood and fire restoration is in the worst position I have ever known in 20 years I have been involved. The Insurance companies who are basically investment banks are not sending contractors out but just offering a cash settlement well below the actual cost of the damage. Unfortunately in this climate most people are accepting the cash.

To the guys who responded a few months ago about a new opportunity, unfortunately due to the current situation the contract which looked imminent never materialised. Apologies for that. There was a lot of time and money put into this and at the moment nothing is on the table. It may (has to) change at some point in the future.
In the maintime I can see a further lot of restoration companies going bust. There have already been a few this year.

[jasonl]

People I know are inundated with work . I have not been paid by too many networks , which in turn has left me unable to pay  some suppliers I will be able to soon- Ill be sitting this one out . 

If you get on the right networks the work is there.

[John Kelly]

Not what I am hearing from the people I am in contact with, even the building networks are very quiet. Personally never not been paid by any networks. Maybe you need to choose who you work for better.

[benny d]

Flood work seems to have dried up atm... 

[Neil Williams]

I find this all very strange. Even if the house owner has been offered a 'cash' closure on the matter there still remains the need to get walls and floors dried out, so someone must be getting the work through this route.
Got to say that even though I have a dedicated flood website (basic but it's out there) there's been no work coming from it. The last 2 'wet' jobs I have done have been thanks to a builder removing slates of a roof just as the week of rain started, and this job took only an hour as it had been a constant drip for 8 hours onto one patch of landing carpet, and the other was because of a dodgy connector on a water pipe between upstairs bathroom and down stairs living room, which eventually over the weekend brought the ceiling down.
So absolutely zero that relates to water rushing in through the front door!

[John Kelly]

Thats the problem Neil. A lot of them they just have a wet carpet and don't know or understand the damage the water that has steeped into the fabric of the building can do. They are getting this cash and getting Joe Bloggs the builder in for a quick fix and spending the rest. There must be massive mould problems lurking in some houses now.