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 reference measurements for each floor in your project. Choose three walls in the 360° 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 360° tour consistent with those door labels. This aids us in stitching the sketch together:

Tip: With working on large and open projects, it will be useful if several technicians can work on the same project at once. To know more on how to do this, see: How to Document a Property Simultaneously.

Feel free to watch this video that details best practices for documenting Commercial and Large Loss Projects, as well as efficiently shooting these types of properties in order to return the best sketch possible: DocuSketch Best Practices for Capturing Commercial and Large Loss Projects.

You may also schedule a time to discuss this with our experts in training prior to visiting the job site by booking here: Commercial Properties Documentation and Sketching.