Location: Warehouse in Washington DC Suburb Area
Loss: Smoke and Soot Damage
Solution: Erects Containment Barriers While Carefully
Tracking Inventory
Rolyn was hired to clean a 40,000 square foot warehouse that sustained smoke and soot damage due to an equipment fire. Inside the facility was several million dollars worth of packaged inventory consisting of computers and electronic components. The clean up efforts were to include both structural cleaning and content manipulation & cleaning. The challenge faced during the cleaning process was that the warehouse employees needed to be able to locate and access all items in their inventory at any given moment. In order to effectively manage the inventory, Rolyn cleaned the warehouse in sections.
Rolyn erected floor to ceiling containment barriers using six millimeter poly sheeting in order to create multiple chambers and to establish negative air pressure. The containment system enabled Rolyn to complete the cleaning and decontamination in stages while eliminating cross-contamination between clean and dirty areas.
Inventory from each section was removed and transported to a clean room located on-site where Rolyn technicians carefully cleaned and decontaminated all items. Shelving systems were cleaned while awaiting return of the inventory. Scissor Lifts were used to clean the walls and 30 foot high ceilings at the facility. Throughout the entire process, inventory locations were carefully documented to ensure that post-cleaning placements matched original locations.
As each section was cleaned, inventory was returned back to the decontaminated warehouse in the exact shelf locations from which it was removed. Rolyn employees worked around the clock, and by the end of the third day, two-thirds of the warehouse was completed and turned back over to the clients. The remaining work was in less sensitive areas and Rolyn worked during regular business hours over the next several days in order to complete the project. Rolyn's rapid recovery efforts and dedication allowed the facility to return to normal operations with minimal disruption.
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I cannot stress enough how well Rolyn managed the changing needs of our particular situation and met these challenges with great success. Your emergency measures allowed us to quickly bring our operation back on-line, and allowed us to remain in business. Without your efforts our business would have been closed forever. I was extremely pleased at the high level of administrative management work that went into the preparation and negotiations of our insurance claim. Your organization was extremely effective at maximizing our insurance claim potential. It has been a pleasure to work with Rolyn."