Bartlett, Shelby County
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Bartlett, Tennessee
A fire & smoke damage restoration call from Bartlett begins with the fact that the older fabric clusters around the Nicholas Gotten House of 1871, now the Bartlett Museum.
Call (901) 459-6565 Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration across the region
- Service
- Fire damage
- Held at
- 38002, 38133, 38134 and 1 more ZIP codes
- County
- Shelby
If nothing was purchased for this at an address, the page states it plainly rather than routing the call somewhere else anyway.
Incorporated on 1 November 1866 as Union Depot, the city grew along Stage Road and then outward into thirty-two square miles of subdivision. Almost none of that fabric is old: the Nicholas Gotten House of 1871, now the Bartlett Museum, is the exception. What that produces for a fire is houses close together with engineered roof trusses, attached garages and exterior finishes that carry flame up a wall face quickly. Separation distances on a 1980s cul-de-sac are short enough that the neighbor's siding is part of the assessment.
This is one of only two municipalities in Shelby County running a fully separate building and codes department; Collierville is the other. Everywhere else in the county, Memphis included, construction permits come from the joint Memphis and Shelby County office. That distinction matters most on a fire job, because a rebuild involves framing, wiring and often a change of layout, and the plan review desk here is a local one. Getting it wrong costs about a week at the point in a job where a week is expensive.
The sheet shows the service against 38002, 38133, 38134 and 38135 and against nothing less than that. The authority for building work here is the City of Bartlett, which runs its own building and codes department, whatever a contractor tells you about it over the phone.
What decides this job at this address
- Fire damage purchased at
- 38002, 38133, 38134 and 38135
- Service disconnect
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water
- Landmarks people give on the phone
- the Nicholas Gotten House of 1871, now the Bartlett Museum, the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center and Stage Road
- Home Improvement license
- Required in Shelby County from $3,000 to $24,999
- Nearest named water
- the Loosahatchie River and Fletcher Creek
- Routes through the town
- Highway 70, Highway 79, Highway 64, Interstate 40 and Germantown Parkway
- Road distance
- 15 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the City of Bartlett
So the rebuild path is settled early, while the cleaning is still going on. Board-up and tarping close the roof the fire department opened, since an open roof in a humid month turns a fire loss into a fire-and-water loss within a day or two. The city utility is raised if a sprinkler or a burst line is involved and MLGW is raised for the gas and the power, which is two calls rather than one. Residue mapping runs through the supply trunk and the attic, because in this stock both sit in unconditioned space.
What the building stock here does
Because whole streets were framed by the same crew in the same season, what is found in one house is a fair prediction of the next, including where a fire stop was left out. The door between an attached garage and the house is the assembly that most often decides whether a garage fire stays a garage fire, and in this stock it has frequently been swapped for a hollow-core door without regard to what it was doing. Smoke that gets past it enters at floor level and crosses the whole first floor. Textiles and stored contents in the garage determine how heavy that residue is.
Every crawl space is entered and photographed rather than judged from the hatch, because the far corner is where standing water sits and the hatch never shows it.
Fire damage work by type
Each of these covers one kind of fire damage job across the whole region. None of them is a second Bartlett page under another name.
Also at this address
- Water damage in BartlettThe valve that stops a supply leak in this city belongs to a municipal utility rather than to MLGW.
- Mold removal in BartlettThirty-two square miles of graded subdivision drain north and west into Fletcher Creek and the Loosahatchie, and the grading is the part worth noticing.
- Everything covered in BartlettThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Keep the policy number and the claim number beside you, but do not wait on the carrier to authorize drying. Mitigation is expected to begin before an adjuster reaches the door.
Boarding up and tarping are not part of the repair; they are what stops the loss growing while everybody argues about the repair.