Pack-Out, Cleaning, and Storage
Contents Cleaning, Pack-Out, and Storage Services
TCM Restoration cleans and restores the belongings inside homes and businesses across Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley after water, fire, and smoke damage. Our contents team packs out what needs to move, inventories every item, cleans and deodorizes what can be saved, and stores it all at our facility until your rooms are ready, so you know where your belongings are and how they’re being cleaned.
- Every item tagged and inventoried
- Cleaning matched to each material
- Storage at our facility
- We work directly with all major insurance carriers
Credentials
Certified Contents Cleaning and Restoration Professionals
Our IICRC-certified technicians clean your belongings to the restoration industry’s standards, so delicate pieces get the care they need. Our A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau lets you check our record before you trust us with your belongings.
Why Choose TCM Restoration
Why Property Owners Choose TCM Restoration for Contents Cleaning
After a fire or flood, it can feel like everything you own is ruined, and sorting through it in a damaged building is exhausting. Many of those belongings can be saved. Crews from our Anchorage and Palmer offices pack them out, clean them, and bring them back, so you don’t have to pack, move, or store anything yourself.
TCM Restoration started in 1996 as a cleaning company, and cleaning is still at the center of what we do. Our team works to save as many of your belongings as possible, including the photos, documents, and keepsakes that mean the most, so you’re not paying to replace more than you need to.
Need to Protect Your Belongings? Contact TCM Restoration
Call us to set up a free estimate, and we’ll plan the pack-out around the rest of your repairs.
How Contents Cleaning Works
Our Contents Cleaning and Pack-Out Process
We walk through and plan the pack-out
We walk through each damaged room with you, decide together what needs to come out, and explain how the pack-out will go. Most things you need day to day can stay with you.
We tag, pad, and pack every item
Every item is tagged and added to an inventory before it leaves the room, then padded and packed for the move to reduce the risk of anything being lost or damaged.
We clean and deodorize your belongings
Once your belongings arrive, we match each item to the right cleaning method, from dry or wet cleaning to immersion or ultrasonic cleaning, then polish and deodorize everything smoke and soot reached.
We store and return everything
Your belongings stay in storage with us until the repairs are done. Then we return your items far better than we found them and check everything against the inventory with you.
What’s Included
What Our Contents Cleaning and Pack-Out Includes
- Pack-out of the belongings in damaged rooms
- Tagging, inventory, and tracking for every item
- Careful padding and packing for transport
- Furniture cleaning and restoration
- Electronics cleaning after smoke or water damage
- Clothing and textile cleaning
- Careful handling of documents and photographs
- Cleaning for appliances, artwork, and collectibles
- Dry, wet, spray-and-wipe, and abrasive cleaning
- Immersion and ultrasonic cleaning for heavy smoke
- Polishing and deodorizing
- Storage until your rooms are ready
Related Restoration Services
More Restoration Services From TCM Restoration
Packing out your belongings frees up the rooms so the building can be repaired, and our own crews handle that work too, from drying and cleaning to the rebuild.
Water Damage Restoration
When water soaks a room, our water crews extract it and dry the structure, so your cleaned belongings come back to dry floors and walls.
Water damage services →Fire and Smoke Damage
While your belongings are with us, our fire crews clean the soot and remove the smoke odor from the building itself, so nothing picks the smell back up.
Fire damage services →Mold Remediation
If mold has reached a room, we clean the belongings worth saving while our mold crews remove the growth from the building before anything returns.
Mold remediation →Reconstruction
Our licensed construction team rebuilds the rooms we packed out, from drywall and flooring to cabinets and paint, and finishes them before your belongings come back.
Reconstruction services →Reviews
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Service Areas
Contents Cleaning and Pack-Out Across Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley
Pack-outs in Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak, and Girdwood start with a call to our Anchorage office. Anywhere in the Mat-Su Valley, our Palmer office sends the contents team.
Anchorage
Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak, JBER, and Girdwood
8535 Dimond D Cir Suite G
Anchorage, AK 99515
24/7 for Emergency Services
866-615-3717
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Palmer
Palmer, Wasilla, Big Lake, Houston, and the Mat-Su Valley
5856 E Shop Cir Suite A
Palmer, AK 99645
24/7 for Emergency Services
866-896-5339
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Restoration FAQs
Anchorage and Mat-Su Contents Cleaning and Pack-Out FAQs
Why do my belongings have to leave the house?
To keep them safe and give us room to work. Empty rooms let our crews reach every wall and floor, and your belongings stay clear of dust, soot, and the work. Even items that look fine can be damaged by lingering moisture or smoke in a room under repair. Not everything has to go, though. Unaffected items can sometimes be moved to a safe part of the house, and large or built-in pieces can be cleaned in place.
Which belongings can usually be saved after a fire?
More than most people expect. Hard items like metal, glass, ceramics, and solid wood furniture usually clean up well, and many fabrics can be cleaned and deodorized. Items that are charred or melted usually can’t be saved, and food, medicine, and cosmetics exposed to heat or smoke should be thrown out. Speed matters, because soot is acidic and keeps corroding metal after the fire is out, so the sooner we clean your belongings, the more we can save.
Can water-damaged furniture be saved?
Often, if it’s solid wood. Wood that’s been wet for less than about a day usually dries and cleans up well, while longer soaking can loosen joints and lift veneer. Particleboard and MDF swell and lose strength, so those pieces are usually replaced. Upholstered furniture wet with clean water can often be cleaned and dried if we start within about a day, but pieces soaked by floodwater or sewage hold contamination in the padding and usually can’t be saved.
Can my electronics be saved after smoke or water damage?
Often, if they haven’t been turned on. Soot is acidic and conducts electricity, and water can short a circuit board, so powering up a device before it’s cleaned can ruin it. Devices exposed only to smoke have a good chance, while those damaged by direct heat usually don’t. Leave all your devices unplugged, and we’ll clean and check them before they’re powered on again.
Can smoke-damaged clothes and bedding be cleaned?
Many can, as long as they weren’t burned. Soot stains fabric easily, and the heat of a washer or dryer can set smoke odor for good, so both have to be dealt with before anything is washed. We remove the soot, deodorize the fabrics, often with ozone, and then launder them.
What is ultrasonic cleaning, and what can it clean?
It’s a deep-cleaning method that uses high-frequency sound. We place an item in a tank of cleaning solution and send sound waves through the solution, creating tiny bubbles that burst against the surface and loosen soot from cracks a cloth can’t reach. It works well on glass, ceramics, metal, jewelry, figurines, window blinds, and many plastics, while books, documents, photos, furniture, and wood frames are still cleaned by hand.
Non-Emergency Projects
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