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Emergency & decant accommodation

It's 11pm and thehouse is uninhabitable.Call us.

Same-night placement for households that cannot stay where they are — fire, flood, escape of water, structural failure or planned works. The right serviced home within hours, a day or two at most — and a hotel for tonight if nothing suitable is free.

24/7Answered by a person
TonightHotel held
HoursTo serviced options
PetsCome too
Night-one planner23:10
TonightHotel, 2 family rooms
Serviced home byThursday
Duty deskNight team

Illustrative — every incident runs to its own clock

What we respond to

If they can't sleep there tonight, it's ours.

Insurers, loss adjusters, housing associations, local authorities and property managers — and the households themselves when nobody else has called yet.

Sudden

Fire, flood, escape of water

The incident happened this evening. Hotel within reach tonight, serviced home matched over the next day or two.

Structural

Unsafe to occupy

Subsidence, collapse risk, gas or electrical failure. Placed the same day while the survey is arranged.

Surge

A street, not a house

Storm and flood events with a dozen households in one postcode. Hotel block held, families placed inside their school catchment.

Planned

Decant for works

Housing providers and property managers with a programme. The move is known, the budget is fixed, and we place around the works.

How the night runs

A hotel if we must. Then the right home.

A hotel is where an emergency can start, never where it ends. Nobody should be in a hotel on week three because somebody stopped looking.

Within the hour

Hotel held

Family rooms, pets where possible, within reach of the school and the job. Booked through Grhum Travel Solutions.

Morning

Needs taken properly

School, commute, care, access, pets, family size — a conversation, not a form.

Hours — a day or two

Serviced home matched

Contracted apartments and houses ranked on the needs, priced, held while you decide.

Move-in

Keys and a welfare check

Welcome pack, contents stored or moved, and the first check already in the diary.

Who calls
Anyone with the household's details

Claims handler, loss adjuster, housing officer, contractor on site, or the family themselves. We take it from whoever has the phone.

Billing
To the insurer or provider, with a reference

The household never pays. One line per incident, with claim or programme references applied.

Contents
Stored, moved or both

Removals and storage partners on the same thread, so the property can be emptied for works.

Overrun
Repairs slip; the placement follows

Extension pricing agreed at the outset, so week nine is a date change rather than a negotiation.

Emergency tonight

Phone the duty desk.

The night team can hold a hotel while you're still on the call and start the serviced search in the morning.

Send a brief

Out of hours · guest support

Fires and floods don't wait for Monday.

Emergency decant and same-night placements go straight to the duty team.

guestsupport@grhum.co.uk

Everywhere we put people

64 locations. Five nations. One phone call.