What a written scope measures before work starts

Affected square footage by room and by material. Drywall removal measured in linear feet and height. Insulation by square foot. Carpet and pad by square yard. Hardwood by square foot, with specialty drying itemized separately.

Equipment is listed per unit and per day, and the day count is set by readings rather than by a package. Daily monitoring is its own line because somebody has to take the readings and move the equipment as the numbers change.

Category. Category 3 water means removal, bagging, disinfection and often a dumpster, which is a different job from drying clean water that arrived through a supply line.

Class. Class 4 means specialty drying on plaster, hardwood, concrete or brick, which takes longer and needs different equipment than a Class 2 loss in drywall and carpet.

Access. A fourth-floor walk-up with no elevator adds labor hours. So does a basement packed to the ceiling that has to be inventoried and moved before the wet assembly can be reached.

We will not scope a loss nobody has seen, and we will not start work on a scope that has no measurements behind it. If the loss grows once the assembly is open, work stops and the scope is re-authorized.

A scope that changes without your signature is not a scope. That is the whole reason the written document comes before the first cut, not after.

We document to a scope an adjuster can read. We do not negotiate the settlement, we do not tell you a claim is approved, and we do not bill a carrier directly unless the carrier agrees in writing.