Vehicle Damage
If your business or home has been damaged by a motor vehicle, then call American Technologies Inc. to assist you in getting back to normalcy as quickly as possible. More often than desired, vehicles are crashing into and through buildings. This has become more and more prevalent with additional vehicles on the roads in conjunction with drivers trying to multi task while driving their vehicles, eating, smoking, talking on the cell phones, etc.
Most of the time, the damage done from the vehicles are minor but there are the other times when the damages are severe. Often during the severe cases, there is issues with the structural integrity of the building and requires emergency shoring and board up until the building officials from the local city municipality can inspect the property. Our highly trained project managers, superintendents and skilled construction technicians can assist you through the entire process from the initial emergency services, pulling the permit, meeting with the building inspectors and managing the entire construction project from initially removing the unwanted vehicle to getting the completed permit signed off by the building inspector.
Some of the common damages to building following vehicle damage include the following materials:
1. Masonry / Brick
2. Landscaping
3. Fencing
4. Commercial Storefront
5. Doors / Windows
Case Study: Yucaipa, CA Home
While evading the police, a drunk driver ran his Chevy truck through a “T” intersection, breaking through the front yard fence, bushes, trees, and power lines before slamming into the corner of a 1920’s home. American Technologies, Inc. and American Restoration were called in to handle the board up and structure repairs.
The homeowners informed American Restoration that drunk drivers had driven through their yard before and expressed concern that it would happen again during reconstruction. Unfortunately, the homeowners’ fears became reality when the week following the initial job walk another truck ran into the electrical pole in the front yard.
It quickly became apparent that the structure was very unstable. At the initial board up, ATI/AR crews shored up the exterior walls to prevent a collapse. In the restoration phase, the interior of the house was shored to hold up the roof as the block repairs were being performed and steel reinforcement added to meet building code requirements. The walls were cinder block throughout the house, and reconstruction was split - maintaining cinder block walls in the interior walls and wood framing on the exterior. American Restoration also determined that the truck crash had affected the plumbing in the home and performed those repairs as well. American Restoration successfully completed the home’s restoration to the complete satisfaction of the homeowner.
