We’re experts when it comes to mold remediation. No matter the scale of infestation or damage to your home, RestoPros is ready to deliver when it comes to cleaning, repairing, and restoring your home from flooding, mold, mildew, and even trauma. That said, we’ve done our best to equip you with the knowledge you need to recognize and resolve damage to your home in the event of a crisis. But there’s only so much you can do by yourself. Calling in a professional team, even with the fastest response, can take time. So what advice can we give to those in North Texas who want to help out friends but don’t have the experience to remediate the damage themselves?
Show Hospitality
For many people, cleanup of a home after flooding or disaster isn’t an afternoon event. In some cases, mold cleanup is a single room and family can live around the cleanup. Restoration can take place while the homeowner is at work and their kids are at school. During the summer, the kids need a place to stay and for large-scale problems, many folks need a place to stay for a day or two to speed up the process. Hotels may be inexpensive but it’s a great opportunity to reach out and offer your guest room or couch to a friend so they have a place to crash. Even just offering to watch their kids in the meantime will help.
Mold is often found in bathrooms and kitchens, which means that when a home is being cleaned and mold removed, the kitchen isn’t accessible. Want to help out a friend that’s recently found mold throughout their home? Offer to take them to lunch. It can help relieve stress and will provide a meal that they don’t have to find a way to prepare without a kitchen. Plus, it gets them out of the house so they aren’t trying to move around drying equipment while it’s in use.
Hold a House Warming
This is something that’s not commonly thought of. We hold apartment and house-warming parties when people move, often bringing them items that they already have in abundance. But when a disaster strikes, a family can lose many items in an instant. Once the cleanup is done and the flood waters have receded, a gift of towels, linens, toiletries, and in some cases clothes are helpful to get friends back on their feet. It doesn’t have to be much, but asking how you can help or offering to hold a ‘back to normal’ party after the home has been restored can be great way to brighten a friend’s spirits after catastrophe.
Just Be There
It’s advice that we all know, but just being there for your friends is probably the best help you can give. Staying at hand in an emergency, helping to pick up or drop off their kids or cleanup may or may not be helpful depending on the situation. The best advice we have for you is to just be nearby when your friends need you and ask them what would be most beneficial. Whether it’s borrowing your shower so they can go to work refreshed or simply just being able to hang out somewhere that’s not their home, they’ll let you know what they need.
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