Rainbow International’s training house at corporate headquarters provides hands-on experience for water damage restoration, real-setting beginner and advanced franchisee training sessions, educational demonstrations for the insurance industry, and corporate test-marketing of cleaning and restoration tools being considered for the network.
“This is the latest technologically-advanced structure that will put our franchisees and their technicians at the forefront of restoration services,” said David Bethea, president of Rainbow International. “This type of training house will allow us to teach everything our technicians may encounter on the job. It will provide a higher level of understanding that you cannot get out of a textbook or traditional classroom situation.”
The 1,200 square-foot training house is built inside a 5,000 square-foot warehouse adjacent to Rainbow’s existing training center on the corporate campus. The house is equipped with its own heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and a variety of other independent features to train multiple restoration scenarios. It features capabilities to flood and restore the house repeatedly, to simulate smoke damage to a portion of the structure for repairs and also to train on drying crawlspaces. Specialized training on drying wood floors and Category II and III restoration services for gray and black water contamination are also offered.
“We simulate real jobs from the initial emergency phone call to the final clean-up and completion of the project,” said Ed Jones, Vice President of Operations for Rainbow International. Jones said the facility, which hosted its first training class March 22, 2004, would be one of the best restoration training houses in the U.S. and Canada.
