Catastrophe situations typically involve numerous flood claims, making for brisk business for restoration companies. When a property owner states they have insurance, it would be wise to clarify if it is going to be a standard property claim, or insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). 

RIA’s Water Loss Specialist SM (WLS) Advanced Certification Program incorporates a wide variety of vetted industry-related courses representing the four major domains of knowledge as part of its prerequisite course requirements.

This project really began a year before the flash flood came through the village of Penn Yan, New York.

Rock Real Estate is a large commercial real estate broker and property management group in south-central Pennsylvania.

In 2013, State Farm paid out $1.3 billion worth for a total of 175,000 water loss claims. Can you guess which states were in the top 10?

Many of you have gone to a hands-on drying school at one time in your career.

Several years ago when I was operating a restoration business, we received a water loss call to a home in a nearby mountain top community.

We brought you the neat – yet unusual – story on Jason Brown earlier this month. As you may recall, the Rainbow International Fairfield, N.J. president pumped some 1,500 gallons of water into his own basement so he could dry it, demonstrate he and his team’s expertise and – ideally – drum up some new business with the attention it generated in the process.

1,500 gallons.

That’s the amount of water that Jason Brown, the president of Rainbow International’s Fairfield, N.J. location, estimates he pumped into his home’s basement on Sunday, Oct. 7. A basement that he says he paid $30,000 to refinish not many years prior.