Every assumption.
Out in the open.
A useful estimate should tell you where it came from.
And, just as importantly, what it cannot tell you.
Your area & material choices
The form records an approximate affected area, selected materials and scenario-specific observations. These values are user-provided, not independently measured.
A clear line between
known and assumed.
Approximate observations, not verified dimensions or a diagnosis.
Quoted verbatim from homeguide.com, angi.com, homeadvisor.com on 2026-09-27. National averages, each built by its publisher’s own method (contractor estimates, post-project surveys or labor statistics).
RestoreWorth coefficients, applied to the base row only. No publisher quantifies them; each is a separate row in the result, never folded into a published figure.
No state, metro or ZIP adjustment. No observed invoice, quote or paid price is in the model.
No restoration contractor has reviewed how these published figures are combined.
Conceptual SVG. Not measured moisture, hidden damage or a forecast.
The low and high are the publishers’ own quoted bounds, not a confidence interval or a probability. Where a publisher leaves its high end open (a “+” after the figure), the row says so.
EPA / CDC safety context only. These sources do not validate any price.
What this number
doesn’t know.
The model does not know your ZIP code, actual labor rates, hidden damage, structural condition, taxes, permits, contents, temporary housing or insurance terms. It cannot establish necessary remediation or safe occupancy.
Do not use this site to approve, reject or negotiate a quote. Use it to see what a restoration scope involves and what published national averages say about it. The prices are sourced and quoted; what is still missing is local pricing and a review of the model by a restoration professional.
The publisher scope band and the second-publisher cross-check shown beside the result are coherence checks, not components of it: a whole-job band and a per-square-foot rate measure different things. Time-based visuals are schematic and are not a claim that damage spreads at a specific speed.
One loss, several entry pages. Contaminated water in a basement can be entered through three calculators, and each follows a different published guide: Sewage backup (HomeGuide’s sewage cleanup guide: sewage cleanup at $7–$15+ per square foot); Water damage (HomeGuide’s water damage guide: water removal and drying, per square foot, priced by water category ($9–$12 for Category 3 black water)); Flood & basement (Angi’s flooded basement guide: a national average of $3–$7 per square foot, with assessment, pump-out and deodorizing quoted as separate fees). The guides do not cut the job the same way, so the same inputs return different figures. RestoreWorth does not merge or average them: when a scenario can be described on more than one page, the result shows what the other pages return for the same inputs, with a link that opens each page on them, and the export repeats it. Reading the three as the same loss is our reading, not a publisher’s statement.
Published pages.
Rates quoted, not altered.
Every rate or fee in a PUBLISHED row is on one of these pages, captured on 2026-09-27 and reproduced without modification. How it is applied to your inputs is our reading, labeled where it matters. Each is a national figure built by its publisher’s own method: HomeGuide from the estimates homeowners receive from contractors; Angi and HomeAdvisor from surveys of their customers about what the project cost, paired with labor statistics, market research and expert interviews. None is a representative sample of invoices, and none is adjusted to any location.
angi.comarticles/flooded-basement-cleanup-cost.htm
Reference s6 · captured 2026-09-27
articles/how-much-does-fire-damage-restoration-cost.htm
Reference s7 · captured 2026-09-27
articles/how-much-does-it-cost-repair-water-damage.htm
Reference s8 · captured 2026-09-27
articles/how-much-does-mold-remediation-service-cost.htm
Reference s9 · captured 2026-09-27
articles/ozone-smoke-removal-cost.htm
Reference s10 · captured 2026-09-27
cost/disaster-recovery/clean-a-flooded-basement
Reference s11 · captured 2026-09-27
costs/carpet-removal-cost
Reference s1 · captured 2026-09-27
costs/fire-damage-restoration-cost
Reference s2 · captured 2026-09-27
costs/mold-removal-cost
Reference s3 · captured 2026-09-27
costs/sewage-cleanup-cost
Reference s4 · captured 2026-09-27
costs/water-damage-restoration-cost
Reference s5 · captured 2026-09-27
And the parts no publisher prices
- time ASSUMPTION
Publishers state that elapsed time raises cost (secondary damage, mold) but none publishes a coefficient. Carried over from the prototype and NOT validated.
- depth ASSUMPTION
No published per-inch coefficient for standing water depth was found. Carried over from the prototype and NOT validated.
- rooms ASSUMPTION
Extra rooms: our assumption, no published coefficient. It scales the base row only, never a line the publisher already prices per room or per job. NOT validated.
- minAreaPerRoom ASSUMPTION
A coherence bound, not a price. Without it the form accepted 20 rooms across 1 sq ft and still produced a five-figure total. No publisher defines a minimum room area; 25 sq ft is our floor. NOT validated.
Not included: finding and repairing the cause, contents cleaning, pack-out and replacement, temporary accommodation, permits, laboratory testing, taxes, major structural repair. United States, national averages. No state, metro or ZIP adjustment is applied. The low and high are the publishers' own quoted bounds, not a statistical interval. Period: Publisher pages captured 2026-09-27; individual pages were published between 2025-08-22 and 2026-05-30.
Real sources. A precise purpose.
US EPAA Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture and Your Home
Moisture, hidden mold and when contaminated-water damage needs experienced professionals. No pricing validation.
Safety Guidelines: Floodwater
Floodwater contamination and electrical hazards. No cost dataset or restoration quote benchmark.
Safety Guidelines: Reentering Your Flooded Home
Re-entry and electrical safety context. This site does not certify a property as safe.
Source pages reviewed for safety context on September 27, 2026. No affiliation, certification or endorsement is implied.
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Build a scenarioPast NFIP claims from FEMA open data (amounts paid, not repair cost): NFIP paid building claims by state