For your own mental sanity, please find another company if your insurance assigns you here for home…read morerepairs or if you are looking to do work on the home. When we brought up issues in the home we were told (and I quote) "We are a restoration company, not a renovation company" - essentially alluding that we should be grateful for that the work they did, even though it wasn't complete. We were assigned TYL for a house fire that occurred about a year ago and it has been the most stressful and difficult process, and TYL made it no easier. I'll add a link to a Google Drive folder with screenshots, photos and videos of our experience. For now, I've attached screenshots from my record keeping of things that were wrong in the home in May - mind you we moved back in March
When they first come, they make it seem like it's about to be this fantastic process and that everything is going to go so smooth. But if it wasn't for the fact that I kept meticulous documentation and held them accountable, our house would've been half finished. The fire in the house started in August and they didn't even get started building things until maybe Oct - They said it was because they needed to get things approved and together. But even then, throughout the winter months, there would be weeks where nothing would be taking place and the house door would be open then because they originally told us March is when we would move back in once March starts approaching, you see them working at all hours of the day. Like if you were really spacing out your work correctly why are you in my house at 2 AM on a Wednesday in February? Then once we finally move in, we see things like the doors frames uneven, they took off a wall and didn't replace it, the porch isn't finished, windows are missing screens, the wood on the door is ripping apart (they refuse to take responsibility for it to this day) And worst of all when we moved back into the house after giving them our furniture, clothing, items that we care about for the last six months - Everything is still covered in soot and water. None of the items were cleaned and we ended up having to clean what we can and wash all of our laundry by ourselves. We threw away a good chunk of our items because they were water damaged, moldy, etc. from sitting in boxes for months untouched. and even to add insult to injury in the beginning,
Even to this day as we approach the one year, there's still things that are not done in the home, and I repeated myself so many times to the project managers (We've had two and both of them refused to come onto the site and take a look at things after the contractors worked on it, won't believe us when we tell them that something's not working right, and even when there were serious things going wrong in the house, they refused to come until we paid the deductible (Which we sent immediately, and even then they still took two weeks to respond. I then told them that that's not good project management. The same way that you would tell your job when you go on vacation you need to tell your clients as well )) something as simple as the soap pump that they installed not working, they refused to fix it. They kept telling us that we're doing something wrong and every single time we show them that it's still not working.
Honestly, the list goes on. I should've known that this would be a chaotic experience when they refuse to bring dehumidifiers into a home that was flooded with water after a fire. From having to chase behind them to make sure the house was adequately, put together, to coming back after six months to realize that all of our items in the house we're still covered in smoke and soot and just sat in a warehouse for months without even being looked at, to still having things in the home, not working correctly to this day - TYL Has done irreparable harm to my mental health, my piece of mind as well as my family's, and I can only hope that the work they did on our home doesn't fall apart or devalue the property.