Collierville, Shelby County
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Collierville, Tennessee
Collierville in Shelby County, where Memphis Light carries the power — and the desk that covers this end of the region picks up.
Call (901) 459-6565 How fire & smoke damage restoration works
- Service
- Fire damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38017
- County
- Shelby
What is local to this town is on this page. The method, which does not vary by address, is on the pages linked below.
Downtown here is a listed historic district on the National Register, built around a square of commercial buildings that share party walls and have been altered repeatedly since the town was rechartered on 17 February 1870. Shared walls, common attic space above a row and floor assemblies added at different dates are exactly the conditions that let a fire in one unit become a fire in three. Above the storefronts there is often occupied or storage space reached by a single stair. What can be done to a building there after a loss is not what can be done on a subdivision street two miles away.
Only two municipalities in Shelby County run fully separate building and codes departments, and this is one of them; Bartlett is the other. Every other jurisdiction in the county permits through the joint county office downtown. On a fire rebuild that is the difference between a plan review across town and one at the town hall, and on a listed building it also brings a further review of anything that changes the exterior. Both conversations start before the scope is priced.
Nothing at all is left out. The service sits behind ZIP code 38017. Ask the Town of Collierville, which runs its own building and codes department about the permit before a wall goes back up, not after it has been closed.
What decides this job at this address
- Fire damage purchased at
- 38017
- Service disconnect
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water
- Landmarks people give on the phone
- the Collierville Historic District on the National Register, the town square and the Wolf River Restoration Project reach
- Home Improvement license
- Required in Shelby County from $3,000 to $24,999
- Nearest named water
- Nonconnah Creek and the Wolf River
- Road distance
- 25 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Collierville
So the sequence on the square runs differently from the sequence in a subdivision. The building is checked for compromised framing and for the alterations that appear on no drawing, then closed against weather, then sampled, because a building rechartered in 1870 and altered every generation since contains materials that decide the demolition method rather than the other way round. Only after that does anything come out. Cleaning starts dry, since water on a dry residue film drives it into old plaster and unsealed masonry, and both are one-attempt surfaces.
What the building stock here does
The subdivision stock burns and cleans much like the rest of eastern Shelby County. The historic core does not. Plaster on wood lath holds smoke in every key and crack, balloon- framed cavities carry it from a first-floor room into an attic with no fire stop between, and heart pine floors refinished four times will not take an aggressive wet method. Two building populations, two entirely different cleaning scopes, three miles apart, and the same policy language applied to both.
Roof tarping and board-up are treated as line items separate from restoration, so an emergency measure is never folded into a scope nobody has agreed on.
Fire damage work by type
Sub-service detail is regional by design. The Collierville specifics — ground, utilities, inspections — belong on this page and stay on it.
Also at this address
- Water damage in ColliervilleNonconnah Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the county near here and runs west from this point, so the town sits at the top of that watershed rather than at the bottom of it.
- Mold removal in ColliervilleThe Wolf River Restoration Project reach runs along the northern edge of town, and the bottomland it occupies is the lowest and wettest ground for several miles.
- Everything covered in ColliervilleThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
The desk covering the Delta and the northwest is a different number from the one covering the southwest. Sending a call to the right one first is the difference between today and tomorrow.
The smell is the last thing to go and the first thing to come back, and either outcome depends on whether the material holding the residue was actually removed.