Eads, Shelby County
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Eads, Tennessee
Eads in Shelby County, where a mix of district and private supply runs the water and holds the shutoff — and the desk that covers this end of the region picks up.
Call (901) 459-6565 Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration, region-wide
- Service
- Fire damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38028
- County
- Shelby
If nothing was purchased for this at an address, the page states it plainly rather than routing the call somewhere else anyway.
Structural water for firefighting out here comes off a tender rather than a hydrant on most parcels, because there is no municipal grid across the fifty-nine square miles this postal area covers. That changes the arithmetic of the first twenty minutes and it changes what is left standing afterward. Long gravel drives, unlit at night and sometimes several hundred feet from the road, slow every vehicle that uses them. A barn or shop set well back from the house often burns without anyone on the property seeing it start.
Herb Parsons Lake, a hundred and seventy-seven acres opened to the public on 1 July 1954 and run by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, sits just east of here, and it is in Fayette County even though everyone locally treats it as the Eads lake. The Fisherville crossroads and Hickory Withe are the same kind of case. Local geography here runs across a county line that nothing on the ground marks. For a fire loss that line decides the responding department, the permit desk and the county recorded on the claim.
This one is complete: ZIP code 38028, purchased without exception. Cleanup rarely needs a permit; the reconstruction behind it is a matter for the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement for the unincorporated county.
What decides this job at this address
- Fire damage purchased at
- 38028
- Service disconnect
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water
- Landmarks people give on the phone
- Herb Parsons Lake, the Fisherville crossroads and Hickory Withe nearby
- Home Improvement license
- Required in Shelby County from $3,000 to $24,999
- Nearest named water
- the Wolf River, Grays Creek and Herb Parsons Lake nearby
- Road distance
- 20 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement for the unincorporated county
The practical consequence is that access and staging are planned before the truck leaves. A gravel drive that will not carry a loaded vehicle after rain is a real constraint, and turning space near a barn is more often the limit than the width of the drive. Power comes off at the pole or at the panel through MLGW, which supplies electricity across the whole county; there is no municipal gas out here, so any fuel on the property is propane in a tank the owner controls. Board-up and tarping usually have to cover more openings than a suburban house has.
What the building stock here does
Large houses on large lots hold more contents and more finished square footage than the county average, and a good deal of it is wood: floors, trim, cabinetry, exposed structure in a great room. Smoke in a volume that size stratifies, and the film ends up on beam tops, cabinet crowns and fan blades rather than at eye level. Detached and attached outbuildings extend the loss well past the house, and equipment, tack, tools and stored vehicles inside them each carry their own cleaning question. Contents in those buildings have usually been there a long time, which makes the clean-or-replace conversation longer here than in a subdivision garage.
Insulation in an exterior wall is checked at the bottom of the cavity, not at the cut line. Wet insulation holds water long after the drywall face reads dry.
Fire damage work by type
What follows is the fire damage catalog, held regionally so that a reader in Eads and a reader forty miles off get the same accurate account.
Also at this address
Before you call
If the power is off in part of the house, leave it off and say so. Nobody should be resetting a breaker on a circuit that has had water across it.
Ring the number for your county, have the fire report number if one was issued, and photograph the contents of every closet and drawer before anybody carries a box outside.