Remodeling | Estimating, Job-Costing, Operations: Here in Washington, D.C., a client of one of my favorite remodelers recently asked the remodeler to travel 1,000 miles to south Florida to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Irma. In Louisiana, lumberyard owners told me two weeks after Hurricane Harvey struck that they expected to see trucks show up at their stores soon, driven by people who hoped to buy all the drywall they could and tote it back to Houston for sale.
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I had never considered the business of rebuilding before. I had been conscious of rebuilding efforts; my mother, an architect, has worked on many rebuilding projects in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but her efforts were a part of a charity service arranged by a service organization. I do not think I had ever considered the process both remodeling companies and individuals go through to rebuild. It is weird, and does require some emotional detachment (I think) to go about rebuilding after a natural disaster in a purely business focused manner. I had also not considered before the materials sourcing of rebuilding and remodeling companies in the area of a natural disaster. The logistics of bringing in materials from thousands of miles away must be headache inducing. The price calculations and adjustments that need to be made after shipping in or retrieving the materials must be a logistical nightmare.
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