Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s final resting place in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield Illinois. 

The polar vortex brought dangerously cold temperatures, large amounts of snowfall and lots of frozen and broken pipes, especially in unsuspecting areas of the country.

Absorbent Specialty Products has introduced Quick Dam a line of sand-less, self rising sandbags and flood barriers able to control and redirect water, an ideal accessory for restoration professionals to have handy as they respond to floods or water damage situations where standing water is still present.

Hydro-Force’s new Nautilus Extreme portable extractor is said to offer twice as much vacuum power as other portables on the market.

Read Through Our New IICRC Standards and Reviews

Building stabilization, structural clean-up, water and fire damage restoration and drying. Those were the services that needed to be conducted at Advertising Flag Company.

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

The year 2013 saw many research projects conducted at HSG CodeBlue’s Structural Drying Laboratory in Springfield, Ohio.

On the night of June 24, 2013 a massive storm hit several towns along the Iowa-Illinois border, an area known as the “Quad Cities.”

The IICRC S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration was made available for public review earlier in 2013, and we received a lot of comments that have helped us to create a revised document with multiple changes and clarifications throughout.