Restoration & Disaster Repair

An introduction to restoration and disaster repair: what restoration contractors do, how water damage is categorized and dried to a documented standard, how fire, soot, and smoke damage are cleaned and deodorized, how mold, asbestos, and lead hazards are handled safely and legally, and how the insurance-driven restoration business actually runs.

The second restoration course, for people who know the basics and want to run the work well: water mitigation to the S500 method with moisture mapping, drying goals, and the daily log; psychrometrics and drying equipment sizing in plain terms; mold remediation to S520 with containment, negative air, removal, and clearance; fire and smoke restoration with test cleaning and contents handling; working with adjusters in the line-item estimating format with scope agreement and supplements; and large-loss and commercial response through the rebuild after mitigation.