Fire-Damaged Building — Insurance Reinstatement Record

The Situation

After a serious fire, the damage doesn’t stop when the flames do. In this building, the water used to fight the fire saturated the fabric — and in the weeks that followed, damp and mould spread through rooms the fire itself never reached.

The insurance process now faced a double question: documenting the full extent of the damage, and establishing exactly what was there before — because reinstatement would need to replace fixtures and finishes like-for-like.

What We Did

We documented the entire building two ways in a single visit:

• A Matterport 3D walk-around — a navigable, timestamped record anyone in the claim can explore room by room. It captures everything in view from every scan position, not just the angles someone thought to photograph.
• A LiDAR scan — dimensionally accurate point cloud data, so affected areas, fixtures and finishes can be measured and quantified rather than estimated.

Together they answer both halves of the insurance question. As evidence, an indisputable, remotely inspectable record of the damage. As a reinstatement reference, an accurate basis for specifying like-for-like replacement — written from the data rather than from memory and fragmentary photos.

The Deliverables

• A navigable Matterport 3D walk-around of the building in its post-fire condition
• A measurable LiDAR point cloud of the affected areas
• A timestamped record accessible to insurers, adjusters, and contractors
• An accurate reference for like-for-like reinstatement of fixtures and finishes

Why This Matters for Insurance Work

This is our insurance documentation service in practice. Fire-damaged buildings are unpleasant and often unsafe to spend time in — and the evidence inside them degrades by the week as damp spreads and strip-out begins. A single early capture freezes the building at a point in time, answers questions for the life of the claim, and means nobody has to keep going back in. Client confidentiality applies on projects like this: we publish only what each client clears.