A special auction to benefit Flood Safe Habitats will take place at The EXPERIENCE Conference & Exhibition, which will be held April 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

A number of RIA members have partnered with All Hands Volunteers to create The Sandy Solution, a cleaning solution designed to remediate houses with mold growth as a result of flood damage from Hurricane Sandy, according to a press release.

Berks Fire Water Restorations, of Reading, PA, has won a 2013 Blue Ribbon Small Business Award, an award annually given to the best 100 small businesses in America.

The Problem:On October 29, Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the mid-Atlantic Eastern seaboard. Although wind damage was extensive, storm surge and associated flooding created hundreds of thousands of water-damaged structures from Delaware to Connecticut, with severe impact in New York and New Jersey.

You know the drill by now: There’s a residential loss. The homeowner calls their insurance company to file a claim. The job gets started.

I cringed when I heard my client say “we are not following the S520” as he was complaining about being mistreated by a claims adjuster on a job.

As floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy receded, homeowners, businesses and municipalities returned to their flood-damaged structures and quickly realized that the problem of water damage was compounded by chemical and microbial contamination.

XTARP SOLUTIONS has released UTARPit, an easy to install water mitigation roof tarp.

Nilodor has announced new Certified Restoration fire, smoke and flood restoration products.

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.