About
Editorial standards
flood.repair is an independent, non-commercial publication for U.S. homeowners and renters facing water damage. Here is how we work and why you can rely on what you read.
The advice you find when you search “my house is flooding” tends to split in two directions. On one side are the government and nonprofit authorities — accurate, but written like policy documents and hard to act on while you’re standing in water. On the other are restoration-company blog posts — easy to skim, but thin and written mainly to win a service call. flood.repair sits deliberately in the middle: authority-grade accuracy, translated into clear homeowner steps, with no service to sell.
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Cite, don’t claim
Our authority is borrowed from the institutions that actually set the standards — FEMA, the CDC, the EPA, the IICRC S500 water-restoration standard, Ready.gov and the NFIP. We do not invent personal credentials or anonymous "certified expert" bylines. Where a claim matters, we link to the primary source so you can read it yourself.
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No sales motive
flood.repair sells nothing and refers no one. There are no quotes, no phone banks, no affiliate links, no lead forms. That independence is the entire point: an answer with nothing to sell is an answer you can trust.
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Action first, then the why
People arrive here mid-emergency. Every how-to opens with the single most important action and a short direct answer, then the full numbered procedure, then the reasoning. We write the safety-critical steps at a 7th–8th grade reading level and define jargon the first time it appears.
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Reviewed against current guidance
Each guide is checked against the most recent public guidance from the agencies we cite, and dated so you can see when it was last reviewed. Standards and programs change; when they do, we update the page and note it.
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Not professional advice
Our guides are general homeowner education, not a substitute for a licensed electrician, structural engineer, remediation professional, or your insurer’s instructions. When a situation calls for a professional, we say so plainly. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
The sources we rely on
We are not affiliated with any of these organizations. We cite them because they set the standards homeowners are measured against.
A note on bylines
Guides are published under The flood.repair Editors, a small editorial team. We deliberately do not attach invented licenses or fabricated personal résumés to our work. The credibility of a page should rest on the quality of its sourcing and the clarity of its steps — both of which you can check for yourself.