# About Water Damage Papa answers questions about water damage, drying, mold and insurance claims for people in the United States. We are an independent publisher with no affiliation to any restoration company, franchise, or insurer. We do not perform mitigation or restoration. We do not dispatch contractors. We do not sell leads, and we do not accept payment for referrals. There are no phone numbers on this site and no lead forms. ## Why this site exists Water damage search is owned by the companies that also decide the scope, bill the insurer, and often ask the homeowner to sign an assignment of benefits before the equipment comes off the truck. Nobody in that chain has a commercial reason to explain that standard homeowners policies exclude flood, that mitigation and repair are separate phases with separate payments, or that the category of the water decides what can be saved. That is the gap this site exists to fill, and it is why the emergency and insurance sections carry no advertising and no affiliate links of any kind. ## How we pay for it The site is supported by display advertising and by affiliate links on genuinely homeowner-appropriate products — moisture meters, water alarms and leak detectors, wet-vacs, dehumidifiers and automatic shutoff valves — on the prevention pages only. We never take affiliate revenue on remediation services, biocides or professional drying equipment, and we carry no advertising or affiliate links on the emergency, insurance, mold or health sections, or on any page marked as requiring a professional. Those are technical rules in our build, not intentions. ## All topics [Emergency](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/emergency/)[Insurance](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/insurance/)[Water categories](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/categories/)[Causes](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/causes/)[Drying](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/drying/)[Mold](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/mold/)[Costs](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/costs/)[Glossary](https://waterdamagepapa.shop/glossary/) By The Water Damage Papa editorial team Last reviewed: 2026-08-17