For restoration companies
For restoration companies
HyreRestore publishes independent guidance for homeowners dealing with water, fire, mould and storm damage. This section is for the restoration companies we intend to connect them with — what the model is, what it is not, and where it has actually got to.
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Where this has actually got to. The matching programme is still being built. There is no live enquiry feed, no pricing, no contract and nothing to buy. What exists today is an early-interest register: tell us who you are and where you work, and you hear from us before this page changes. We would rather say that plainly than imply a network that is not there yet.
Who we are looking to work with
The bar is the advice we already publish to homeowners, applied consistently. We tell readers to check certification, licensing, insurance, written scopes and daily moisture documentation before they let anyone start work. Routing those readers to companies that fail their own checklist would make the checklist dishonest. So we are looking for:
- Real, registered restoration businesses with a verifiable operating history and a local address — not a storm-following crew with a magnetic door sign.
- IICRC certification held by technicians, not only by the company. Water damage restoration and applied structural drying for water work; mould remediation where the work is mould.
- State licensing where the state requires it. Several states licence mould assessment and remediation separately and some prohibit one firm from doing both. Reconstruction usually needs a contractor licence of its own. “Not licensed for that in my state” is a complete answer where it is true.
- General liability and workers’ compensation cover, plus pollution liability where the work involves contamination.
- Written scopes before work begins: what is being removed, what is being dried, what the drying goal is and how long it is expected to take.
- Moisture documentation you hand over — readings on day one and every day after. It is the single clearest indicator of a professional operation, and we tell every homeowner to ask for it.
- No pressure to sign on the spot. Mitigation can begin under a limited work authorisation. We tell homeowners to be slow with an assignment of benefits, and we are not going to introduce them to firms that push one across the bonnet of a truck.
- Companies that answer enquiries they accept. A homeowner who is never called back is a homeowner we have failed.
The homeowner-facing version of all of this is on choosing a restoration company, and what we can and cannot confirm about any firm is set out in how we vet.
What this is
An independent publisher with an audience of homeowners who arrive mid-loss and stay to work out what they are dealing with. They read the first 24 hours, how restoration works, what drives the cost and the claims material before anyone quotes them. None of it is gated and none of it asks for an email address. The ones who decide they want an introduction fill in one form, of their own accord.
That produces a different conversation than a purchased list does. They already know the difference between mitigation and reconstruction, that a drying goal is a number rather than a feeling, that category 3 water is handled differently from a clean supply leak, and that they are generally not required to use the mitigation firm for the rebuild. You spend the call scoping work instead of teaching vocabulary.
What this is not
- We do not subcontract restoration work. We hold no restoration contracts, employ no technicians, own no equipment and have nothing to pass down a chain. You contract directly with the homeowner and we are not a party to it.
- We do not take a cut of a job. Whatever the commercial model turns out to be, it will be for an introduction, never a percentage of the work or of a settlement.
- We do not sell a claim. We take no assignment of benefits, we do not act as a public adjuster, and we have no financial interest in whether a homeowner files. We publish the case for being slow about signing an AOB; profiting from one would make that page a sales document.
- We are not a lead reseller. Selling one homeowner’s emergency to a dozen firms is the practice the model exists to avoid, and it is written into how the model works.
- Paying us does not buy editorial coverage. Editorial and commercial are separate, that separation is published in our editorial policy, and it is not negotiable.
What is not decided yet
The points below are open questions, not withheld answers. When they are settled they will be published here rather than sent privately to whoever asks.
| Open question | What is undecided |
|---|---|
| Commercial model | Per enquiry, subscription, or something else, and at what price. |
| Exclusivity | Whether an enquiry goes to one company or a small number. |
| Delivery | How an accepted enquiry reaches you, and how quickly. |
| Invalid enquiries | What qualifies as one, and how it is raised and resolved. |
| Contract terms | Minimum commitment, if any, and how to pause or leave. |
| Coverage | Which markets open first, and in what order. |
Where to go next
- How it works — how enquiries arrive, what one contains, exclusivity, and the things we will not do.
- Register your interest — your company, your service area and what you actually do. Free, and it is not an application with an outcome attached.
- Partner FAQ — cost, exclusivity, verification, bad enquiries, removal, and whether paying changes editorial coverage.
If you would rather understand the publisher first, about HyreRestore sets out who writes this and how we are paid, and the lead quality standard is what we hold ourselves to on the enquiries we pass on. For anything not covered here, contact us.