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Our Story:
After serving for almost nine years in the US military, Thomas Maguire wanted to start a company with a simple mission: Helping People.
That company, PuroClean, is in the property restoration business dealing with the devastating effects of water, fire, mold, and biohazard damage. We restore homes and businesses but mostly, we restore peace of mind.
We do this by striving to provide an exceptional service experience, responding quickly, ethically and, most importantly, with compassion for what the property owners are experiencing.
Experience:
We are an IICRC Certified Firm and have been in the mitigation and restoration business in Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina since February 2009. We opened our Columbia, SC location in 2017 to serve the midlands of South Carolina. Our 17 employees have over 50 years of experience in the restoration industry. Our office has completed jobs as wide ranging as a $3.9M factory fire to home demolition and rebuild from ground up and to large commercial mold remediation projects. Most of our customers are homeowners and small business owners who have experienced a property loss.
The Owner: Thomas Maguire
Thomas is an award-winning executive with more than 20 years of successful experience from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to boardrooms in the US.
A native of Spartanburg, Thomas attended the Citadel on a partial Air Force scholarship graduating in 1998. His first duty assignment in the Air Force was Minot Air Force Base in Minot, North Dakota where he supported B-52 combat operations in Iraq and Eastern Europe.
After 2 years in Minot, he was selected for Air Force Special Operations at Hurlburt Field, Florida. While there he led all logistics support for the ultra secret black ops cell where he supported 117 combat missions in 21 different countries including Afghanistan and Iraq.
After leaving Florida, Thomas was handpicked to head the Air Force’s largest War Reserve Materiel Program supporting ongoing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was responsible for a $120 million yearly budget, over 20 sites in 10 different countries, $5 billion worth of equipment, and over 1700 personnel.
Thomas was recruited to the civilian sector to be the Chief Operations Officer for a small business in Michigan after almost 9 years in the Air Force. While there, he grew the company from 20 to 60 employees and from $30 million to more than $55 million in annual revenue. Two years after moving to Michigan, he and his wife decided to move back home to Spartanburg and go into business for themselves.
They started a PuroClean franchise and serve the Upstate whenever someone’s home or business suffers from the devastating effects of water, fire, mold, or biohazard damage.
Thomas has been honored with 18 awards for professionalism and leadership including the United State’s Air Force #1 Logistics Readiness Company Grade Staff Officer of the year, US Central Command Air Forces Lance P Sijan officer of the year, Tuskegee Airmen Company Grade Officer of the Year, and in consecutive years was the Logistics Officer of the Year.
His hobbies include reading and spending time with his two smart and beautiful daughters.
We live and work in this community too; we might even be neighbors. As a locally owned and operated business, PuroClean of Columbia of South Carolina is close by and ready to help with your mold-Water-Fire- Biohazard damaged property.
When a major storm or event occurs, you can call us and we will be there to help you.
Richard B. started working at PuroClean of Columbia in 2020. He was an Army Brat, and was born in Washington. He has lived in Columbia for 15 years now. He previously worked as a US Army Officer, was an Army Ranger, a Distribution Warehouse Manager, a Purchasing Manager, and a Global Commodity Manager. He is married, and his wife is an elementary teacher. They have two children together. A fun fact about Richard is that he is fluent in French.
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PuroClean of Columbia
(803) 500-9227
2651 Shop Road, Columbia, SC 29209
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