Sussex water damage: scope first, then the readings

Scope before drying

The drying is set for the materials named in the scope. A plan started before the scope can miss a wet subfloor or a cavity behind a wall, and the scope prevents that.

A calendar of checks for a village home

The table lists checks worth making on a schedule for a home in this part of the county.

After the first visit

The homeowner has the scope, the photographs and the drying target. The second visit repeats the readings, and each set is given to the homeowner.

Which towns sit closest to Sussex?

Sussex is about 24.8 km from the Milwaukee anchor, on ZIP 53089 in Waukesha County. The three nearest other towns in the service list are Lannon (5.2 km), Pewaukee (8.2 km) and Menomonee Falls (9.5 km), and a call about Sussex is passed to whichever crew is free nearest.

The record of a loss in Sussex is most useful when it sits beside the record of the nearest towns, because the same storm can leave a mark in several of them. Keep the photographs and readings from each loss in a single dated folder.

Calls from Sussex are taken on the same line and matched to the nearest free team. The address is checked against ZIP 53089 in Waukesha County, and the scope records that ZIP so the file can be filed without confusion. A loss reported in Sussex is read with the same meter readings as anywhere else in the service list, and the finding for each room is written into the scope before drying is set.