Cordova, Shelby County
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Cordova, Tennessee
Cordova is a Shelby County address where the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement issues the permit that governs the rebuild, and the work is scoped from there.
Call (901) 459-6565 Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in West Tennessee
- Service
- Fire damage
- Held at
- 38016 and 38018
- County
- Shelby
A fire page exists here because at least one code in the town carries the purchase, and not because the town looked worth claiming.
This is a place with no fire department, no city hall and no municipal boundary of its own making, sitting between Shelby Farms Park and the Wolf River corridor on ground that was farmland in the 1980s. The subdivisions that replaced it were laid out with attached garages opening into the house, which is where a large share of residential fires in stock of this age begin. Open plans carry smoke across the whole first floor before anyone is awake. Two-story houses with an open stair send it straight into the bedrooms above.
Construction permits for this area come from the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement, which issues for Memphis, Arlington, Germantown, Lakeland, Millington and the unincorporated county from one desk, working to the 2021 International Building Code adopted with local amendments on 31 December 2021. A fire rebuild that touches framing, wiring or egress is a plan review rather than a repair. Knowing that before the scope is priced avoids pricing work that will be reviewed on a different basis. It also settles which inspector will be in the house when the wall closes.
Type any of these into a search box and the answer is the same: 38016 and 38018, all held. The authority for building work here is the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement, whatever a contractor tells you about it over the phone.
What decides this job at this address
- Fire damage purchased at
- 38016 and 38018
- Service disconnect
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water
- Landmarks people give on the phone
- the Wolf River Greenway, Shelby Farms Park and the Cordova Depot
- Home Improvement license
- Required in Shelby County from $3,000 to $24,999
- Nearest named water
- the Wolf River, Fletcher Creek and Grays Creek
- Road distance
- 15 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement
So the structural check and the permit question run in parallel from the first visit. Anything that looks like a garage-origin fire is examined at the common wall and above the garage ceiling, because that assembly was meant to hold the fire and often did not. Ductwork is opened at the plenum and at a run far from the fire, since in a slab house the supply trunk is in the attic and carries residue everywhere. MLGW is the single utility for gas and power here, which at least makes the disconnect one phone call.
What the building stock here does
Engineered lumber is the defining material of this stock and it changes the assessment. Floor trusses and I-joists lose capacity quickly once the web is charred, so what looks like a smoke-only floor above a garage fire may not be one. Vinyl siding softens and drips rather than charring, carrying residue down a wall face and onto the ground. Blown attic insulation across the whole footprint takes residue in and does not give it up, so it leaves rather than being cleaned, and the ceiling wallboard beneath it usually goes with it.
Refusal is part of the method: work needing a licensed plumber, electrician or structural engineer first is stopped until that person has been and gone.
Fire damage work by type
These describe the work itself, at region level, in more detail than a town page has room for. The Cordova particulars are already above.
Also at this address
- Water damage in CordovaThe Wolf River runs a hundred and five miles from Baker's Pond in Mississippi to a mouth near Mud Island, and this is where it crosses the widest, flattest ground on the way.
- Mold removal in CordovaFletcher Creek and Grays Creek run through the middle of this area in shallow bottoms with subdivision on both sides, and the Wolf River Greenway follows the low ground beyond them.
- Everything covered in CordovaThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Ask what happens if the moisture readings come back normal on day two. Anybody who cannot describe how a job ends is not describing a job with a defined end.
Boarding up and tarping are not part of the repair; they are what stops the loss growing while everybody argues about the repair.