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By: The Encircle Team
Location: Richmond, VA
Highlights:
Quick Floor Plan Creation: From hours to 1.5 minutes.
Less Admin Work: 387 admin hours saved.
More Jobs Handled: Twice as many daily jobs.
Happier Team: Major morale and efficiency boost.
Better Customer Service: Faster, more accurate service.
Find out how using Encircle for digital floor plans improves speed and accuracy in property restoration workflows.
Aaron and Kari Fischer own four Rainbow Restoration locations in Greater Virginia including Richmond, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, and the Valley. Their teams are part of the global Rainbow International brand, known for expertly handling water damage, fire & smoke, asbestos, and mold remediation. The business found a game-changer in Encircle Floor Plan and moved towards digital transformation, enhancing their longstanding reputation with insurance carriers and local tenants.
THE CHALLENGE: Upgrading sketching for customer and carrier satisfaction
Their technicians often used pen and paper to take measurements, a method prone to errors and lost information. Sometimes, these written notes didn’t make it into their digital records, leading to delays in providing accurate estimates to insurance companies. This sketching workflow was increasingly becoming a bottleneck.
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THE SOLUTION: Making field sketching easy with effortless tech
Rainbow Restoration chose Encircle Floor Plan to upgrade their sketching process, a decision driven by the tool's seamless integration with their existing software and its field tech-friendly design.
THE RESULTS: Speed, accuracy, and morale boost
#1: Time Cut Down Dramatically
Creating floor plans became much faster. Garrett shares the impact:
“It takes a minute and 30 seconds for you to do a Floor Plan on site. Then in less than four hours, you get that Floor Plan back and it's 98% accurate.”
#2: Big Save on Admin Work
Garrett notes, “Administrative time saved would be roughly four to five hours per job.” This big drop in admin time made things run smoother overall.
#3: Handling More Jobs
Their team could take on double the jobs. “Encircle has cut sketching time in half so we can hit twice as many jobs in a day than what we would have in the past,” observes Garrett.
#4: Team Spirits Soar
The whole crew got a big morale boost. Garrett explains, “For the guys to find out I can do a video walkthrough and then it'll put a sketch in or make a sketch, they were pretty excited about that.”
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Advice for digital transformation in restoration
Great news! Encircle floor plans can now be imported into Xactimate for instant sketches, so any restorer can go from site to Xactimate sketch in under 6 hours. Get started today to see what a shorter estimating process can do for your restoration business.
