The proper way to calculate insurance burden and effectively recover costs and increase your profit margin.

Sean M. Scott highlights the importance of supervision and project management for restoration professionals.

Training your staff on the proper estimation process pays for itself with found profits.

If your repair work is barely profitable, the problem may be your project manager.

The final phase involves compiling a list of items and tasks.

Know the odors you are dealing with and the best ways to treat them.

Seven factors to determine for the preliminary estimate.

The first phase is gathering data on what emergency services were involved.

An appraisal clause proves a useful tool as claims become more often contested.

For this R&R Roundtable, we asked four odor removal professionals — Tony Macaluso, Jeff May, Sean Scott and Andrea Stenberg — the same five questions on topics including common missteps or misconceptions, top tools, memorable projects and future predictions.