Replacing wood flooring through insurance

cb101

Hi

I have to have a fairly large area of wood flooring replaced due to a recent flood
some of it is damaged and some is probably OK. It seems like the restoration company will be removing and taking it away shortly. I was just wondering whether this will be just dumped or sold on/used elsewhere. I am in the process of arranging to get a wood burning stove fitted and so was wondering what the possibility was of them letting me keep some of it to burn or whether because it is part of an insurance claim it needs to be all taken away. I am also assuming it would be suitable to use on the stove?
Any ideas?
Thanks
C

dacouch

Give your Insurers a call, they may be happy for you to keep the damaged flooring.

If the damaged flooring has any value they may be selling it to a reclaimation yard

cb101

Thanks
Who do you think it would be best to approach the timber restoration/drying out people or loss adjuster

dacouch

Ring your Insurer or the loss adjuster

jeffcharlton

Be careful, some older (pre 1999) bitumen floor glues had asbestos in them. So if yours did, you may end up with asbestos fibres in your ash can.
Jeff Charlton
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cb101 wrote: »

Hi

I have to have a fairly large area of wood flooring replaced due to a recent flood
some of it is damaged and some is probably OK. It seems like the restoration company will be removing and taking it away shortly. I was just wondering whether this will be just dumped or sold on/used elsewhere. I am in the process of arranging to get a wood burning stove fitted and so was wondering what the possibility was of them letting me keep some of it to burn or whether because it is part of an insurance claim it needs to be all taken away. I am also assuming it would be suitable to use on the stove?
Any ideas?
Thanks
C