Best practices for documenting commercial property losses

Large, open floor plan warehouses should be shot approximately 15 feet inside the perimeter from the outer wall and placed approximately every 25 feet. After those shots are taken, the interior should be shot around objects, such as machinery, interior rooms and racks:

If a fire escape plan or any diagram of the property can be located, attach a comment photo of the diagram. This will speed up the delivery of your sketch. These can often be found in stairway entrances, exits and on hotel room doors. Blueprints or factory floor plans are also helpful:

Please provide three 3 reference measurements for each floor in your tour. Select three walls in the tour, take a comment photo of the wall and label the photo according to its measurement:

In a building where doors have labels, label the rooms in the tour consistent with those door labels. This aids us in stitching the floor plan together:

You may schedule a time to discuss this prior to visiting the job site here: Commercial Properties Documentation and Sketching.

Alternatively, you may contact our commercial properties product manager, Jason Van Cleave through 888-400-8858 ext 69.