Tey found about five filing cabinets that have essential, retrievable information in paper form. Hall says, “We’d talked about converting all of the paper files to digital format, but never made the time to do it. Now we’ll need to spend thousands of dollars to copy and store them. It would make more sense and be far easier to do the conversion as documents are created rather than doing the conversion all at once.”
Working through the compromised materials that could be examined has been time consuming, but eye-opening. Klundt says, “Tis fire for me was a purge. As I went through the debris, I realized how much I was keeping that I didn’t need. I’m going to do a purge every year now. It’s easier to manage 3 to 12 months of information and materials than 3 or 4 years of it.”
Tere were glitches. On September 5, GO had been busy reordering all the supplies lost in the fire when Office Depot cancelled all the orders saying, “they were too large and needed to be investigated,” despite GO having been a loyal customer for more than a decade! Staples had read about the fire and sent them an “unbelievable gift box full of supplies to get us back up and running!” Obviously, Staples got all those previously-cancelled orders as well. Again, tapping into the power of social media, @GOSEED posted tweets telling the story with the last one showing a photo of the gift box and stating, “THANK YOU STAPLES! Your generosity is so much appreciated!! (red heart emoji) #StaplesCustomerForLife #LifeAfterTeFire.”
In retrospect, Hall says, “It probably would have been a lot cheaper if the whole building would have burned to the ground. Te smoke and water damage were extensive, with the debris filling five big dumpsters. Some of the exterior walls were salvageable, but they had to pull all of the drywall nails from the studs. Once we go back in to rebuild, all the surfaces, even those that were not touched by the fire but were exposed to the smoke, will need to be coated with shellac and sealed.”
Duane Klundt shows the post-clean-up view of inside the office, now down to the bare-bones.
Hall calls himself a “type A and a bit of a control freak,” but knows you can’t make other people move at your speed. It’s already taken nearly 6 months working with the architect and the structural engineer to get the plan redone to prepare for the rebuilding. Te good thing is he’s viewing the rebuilding as an opportunity.
Tis post-fire view of the GO fire damage, taken from Duane Klundt’s office, shows little was salvageable.
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Hall says, “Te building was a converted house that allowed us to develop a relaxing office environment, which we will maintain, but we’ll improve the functionality and flow. We had been reluctant to add on knowing the county regulations would require that we become ADA compliant. Now we will increase the office space and become ADA compliant at the same time. We’re adding a formal break room and a new conference room. We’ll create a separate room with a fireproof door; keep our computer server in that room and increase our server capacity. We’re reorganizing the private offices and relocating marketing into one central office. We’re all excited about turning the plans to reality.
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