How Whatcom Restoration Desk works
Whatcom Restoration Desk connects Whatcom County owners and tenants with a restoration company, at no charge to them. We don't dry houses or clean soot ourselves. A request you send goes to one independent company that covers your part of the county; that company gets in touch and comes out to inspect, then quotes the job and books it.
Who pays us
The company we refer you to pays a fee for each introduction. Homeowners and tenants pay us nothing. Pricing is entirely the company's, and none of the hands-on work is ours.
Conditions for the companies we refer
- The scope and price on paper before any work. It should list what comes out, what stays to be dried or cleaned, and the expected number of days.
- Meter readings and photos on day one and the last day. That record is what shows an adjuster the house actually got dry.
- Time to read before signing. Any form, and especially one that mentions your insurance, can wait while you read it.
- An active Washington L&I contractor registration. L&I's lookup page lets you confirm it from your phone.
Call (360) 323-8913 if a company we sent you didn't hold to these.
Looking up a contractor
Washington makes construction contractors register with the Department of Labor and Industries and carry a bond plus liability insurance. Any company's record is on L&I Verify a Contractor. Get the registration number, a certificate of insurance and the written scope before anyone starts.
Sources
Each guide ends with the sources it relied on. We ran the weather and river numbers ourselves from NOAA and USGS records; flood claims are FEMA's and housing figures are the Census Bureau's. How the data page was built.
Photo credits
All photos come from Unsplash under its license: Zac Gudakov, Lorin Lindell, Angela Thomas, Pavl Polo, Aivars Vilks, Luca Severin, Eric Parenteau, Hydra 4x, Amritanshu Sikdar. No photo shows work by any particular company.