Christian Fahoome had his own disaster restoration company when he noticed a hole in the market. Specifically, he didn’t see a company that helps everyday people clean up when, for instance, a kitchen fire badly damages a house.
"A lot of this market is what I call Mrs. Jones' home fire," Fahoome says. "The small fires for individual owners."
That prompted him to start
ECRS (an acronym for Electronic Cleaning Restoration Services), which specializes in helping home owners and small businesses people clean up disasters that are small on the grand scale of things but are overwhelming when it comes to that individual person. The industry is largely aimed at handling large disasters that happen to big companies or organizations and are facilitated by insurance companies.
The Troy-based firm got its start 2.5 years ago. It has doubled its staff to four people over the last year, hiring two technicians. Fahoome expects to bring on one more employee before the year is out to meeting the growing demand for his company.
"It has been very well received," Fahoome says. "We're getting more and more momentum."
Source: Christian Fahoome, owner of ECRS
Writer: Jon Zemke
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