I'm glad it worked out for you...but you are also very lucky...the visual damage on a fire damaged structure can be the tip of the iceberg, depending on where the fire started and how it progressed.

You have to catch a contractor on a day of weak ness between bigger jobs where cash is lean.

I've always been of the mindset that staging a house to sell gives people a "visual" on how it looks as a home.

It runs great but has a few little visual flaws here and there.

I passed the visual inspection for lead as well, so he proceeded to do the dust samples.

Even a Home Inspector will give a generic opinion on the visual and will recommend an engineer look into it.  

Great visual.

Without these scenes, it’s hard to visualize a beautiful home when standing in front of a dilapidated structure.

Of course, that doesn't say anything about it being used in other areas (floor, wall insulation, piping, etc, nice little visual in this article: https://montrealgazette.com/ne...) .

Conduct a visual inspection yourself and make your own guesstimate.5.