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    Winning at Documentation: How restorers can protect their business and get paid

    Kris Rzesnoski, CR,NRD reference

    Winning at Documentation: How restorers can protect their business and get paid — Kris Rzesnoski, CR, WLS, FLS, CLS, RTPE / Encircle Inc., 2023.

    Source: Kris Rzesnoski, CR, WLS, FLS, CLS, RTPE / Encircle Inc. · · 2023

    • Kris Rzesnoski, CR, WLS, FLS, CLS, RTPE / Encircle Inc.
    • Business & Estimating
    • winning
    • documentation
    • restorers
    • can
    • protect
    • their
    • business
    • get
    • paid

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    What this document argues

    A 168-page practitioner's book by Kris Rzesnoski of Encircle, approved for five IICRC continuing-education credits, arguing one point: in restoration, proof is what gets you paid. Twelve chapters start with the legal paperwork every restorer should hold — work authorisations, waivers, change orders, health and safety questionnaires, completion certificates, lien notices, subcontract agreements — then work through scoping for estimates, protecting the back end of the business, large losses, contents, report writing, and closing a job with payment in hand.

    Why a contractor cares. It is the most directly practical item here on field documentation: what to capture, when to capture it, and which form has to be signed before work begins.

    Why a public adjuster cares. It is the mirror image of your own file. It sets out what a competent restorer's documentation should contain, which is the measure of whether a scope is supported — though it comes from a software vendor, so read the process apart from the product.

    A summary written by the National Roofing Directory, not an extract. The work itself is Kris Rzesnoski, CR, WLS, FLS, CLS, RTPE / Encircle Inc.'s and is not reproduced here.

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