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PLUMBER PARTNER PROGRAM // NORTHERN VIRGINIA + DC

Plumber Referral Program — get paid for the water damage you can't bill.

You cap the line and the leak stops. The soaked drywall, the wet subfloor, the ceiling in the room below — none of that is on your invoice, and none of it is your problem to carry. Hand it to us instead: 60-minute target response across Northern Virginia and DC, the insurance claim handled end to end, every plumbing repair we uncover routed straight back to you, and your referral paid the same week the job is invoiced.

Become a partnerCall (888) 293-5663
RESPONSE
60-min target
BILLING
Carrier direct
PLUMBING WORK
Returns to you
PAYOUT
Same week

PROGRAM EXPLAINER · RESTORATION DOCTOR PARTNERSHIP DESK

Trusted by plumbing partners across Northern Virginia

250+ REFERRING PARTNERS & COUNTING
  • Copperline Plumbing Co.
  • Kettle Run Plumbing
  • Brasswick & Sons
  • Ironvale Plumbing Co.
  • Milldam Plumbing Works
  • Saw Creek Plumbing
  • Anchor Ridge Plumbing
  • Stoneferry Plumbing Co.
  • Vantry & Hale Plumbing
  • Old Quarry Plumbing
  • Harrowgate Plumbing Co.
  • Blue Kettle Plumbing
  • Hammerton Plumbing
  • Gristmill Plumbing
  • Tallow & Vane
  • Northcut Plumbing
  • Boulderline Plumbing
  • Ravenford Plumbing
  • Steelcreek Plumbing
  • Drydock Plumbing Co.
  • Holloway Pipeworks
  • Marlstone Plumbing
  • Harbor & Oak Plumbing
  • Wexford Brothers Plumbing
  • Sablecreek Plumbing Co.
  • Fallow Creek Plumbing
  • Merribrook Plumbing
  • Tanner & Doyle Plumbing
  • Larkspur Plumbing Co.
  • Aldergate Plumbing
  • Redbird Rooter
  • Wrenchford Plumbing
  • Dripwell Plumbing Co.
  • Cobbleford Plumbing
  • Pipevine Plumbing
  • Kilnstone Plumbing
  • Rockmill Drain & Sewer
  • Windmere Pipe Co.
  • B. Ardmore & Sons
  • Caldwell Pipe Co.
  • Vesper Plumbing Group
  • K. Hollis Plumbing
  • Pemberly Plumbing Co.
  • Ostrander Plumbing
  • Pipewright Plumbing LLC
  • Valveworks Plumbing
  • Sumphouse Plumbing
  • Fluegate Drain Co.
  • Trapdoor Drain & Sewer
  • Spigotville Plumbing
HOW THE HANDOFF WORKS

Three steps, and two of them are ours.

  1. 01

    You find the water. One call or one text.

    You are already standing there with your hand on the shutoff. Text an address and a photo to our dispatch line, or call (888) 293-5663 and hand the phone to the homeowner if that is faster. That is the entire ask. You do not fill out a claim form, you do not wait around to meet our truck, and you do not have to close the homeowner for us. If they want to sleep on it, fine — we come when they call.

  2. 02

    We roll a crew, mitigate, and bill the carrier.

    Crews stage out of Vienna and run around the clock. We extract, pull what has to come out, set containment and drying equipment, log daily moisture and psychrometric readings to IICRC S500, and photograph the whole job. Then we build the estimate, deal with the adjuster, and bill the insurance company directly. On a covered loss your customer usually writes exactly one check — their deductible.

  3. 03

    The plumbing comes back to you. So does the money.

    Rebuild-side plumbing is yours: resetting the fixtures we pulled, the supply line that failed inside the wall, the drain the camera picked up on the way through. Your company goes on the job file as the plumber of record and the homeowner gets your number. Your referral payment is issued the same week that job is invoiced, and a monthly statement lists every job you sent, where it stands, and what it paid.

If you want to see what step two actually looks like on site, our emergency water damage page walks the first six hours of a loss, hour by hour.

PARTNER COVENANT // RD-PPP-001
RESTORATION DOCTOR · PARTNER PROGRAM

Four things we put in writing.

Everything above this line is marketing until somebody commits to it. This is the commitment. It applies to every job you send us, starting with the first one, and it does not change once you have sent us fifty.

  1. 01

    We never do plumbing.

    Zero plumbing licenses, zero plumbing trucks, zero temptation. Restoration Doctor is a mitigation and restoration contractor — water, fire, mold, sewage, and the reconstruction that follows. We are not licensed to pull a plumbing permit in Virginia and we have no intention of becoming licensed. There is no version of this partnership where we quietly grow a plumbing division on the back of your referrals.

  2. 02

    Every plumbing repair we uncover goes back to the referring plumber. In writing.

    When we open a wall and find the second failure — the corroded branch, the bad joint, the water heater three years past its life — your company name is already on the job file as plumber of record, and that is the number the homeowner gets. It is written into the file, not remembered as a favor. If the homeowner insists on someone else, we tell you that instead of quietly letting it go.

  3. 03

    Your customer stays your customer.

    We work the loss. You keep the relationship. We do not sell your customer a maintenance plan, we do not leave another contractor's magnet on their fridge, and we do not market to them after the file closes. You introduced us into that house; that introduction is the only reason we are standing in it.

  4. 04

    Transparent referral terms — never recovered from the homeowner's claim.

    Your referral payment is a flat, disclosed, business-to-business payment from us to you. It is not a percentage, it is not scope-dependent, and it does not appear as a line item on anybody's estimate. It never touches the homeowner's invoice and it is never recovered from their carrier — it comes out of our margin, which is exactly why it stays flat. Ask for the line-item estimate on any job you referred and check it yourself.

SIGNED / ISSUING ENTITY
Restoration Doctor — VA Water Damage LLC
  • VA DPOR CLASS A · 2705191604
  • SCOPE: NORTHERN VIRGINIA + DC
  • APPLIES: EVERY REFERRED JOB
  • REV. 001
PROOF / PARTNER INTERVIEWS

Partners on the record

Plumbers who send us work, talking about what actually happens after the handoff — how fast we showed up, who ended up doing the plumbing, and what the homeowner said afterward.

We used to walk away from the water
Marcus · Copperline Plumbing Co.
The plumbing came back to us
Dan · Harbor & Oak Plumbing
One text and they took the whole loss
Tony · Redbird Rooter
Copperline Plumbing Co. — the full story
Marcus · Copperline Plumbing Co.

Partner stories are dramatized recreations.

TRANSPARENT TERMS

What you get paid, and how it works

Plumbers have every reason to be suspicious of restoration referral money, and most of that suspicion is earned. So here is the whole mechanism, in plain terms, before you give us a phone number.

A flat payment per referred job

One number per job we take on, agreed before you send the first one. Not a percentage of the estimate. Not scope-based. Not larger because we found more damage behind the wall. Flat is the point: it removes any reason for either of us to want that job to be bigger than it actually is.

Paid the same week the job is invoiced

You are not waiting on the carrier and you are not waiting on the homeowner's mortgage company. When our mitigation invoice goes out, your payment goes out — check or ACH, your call. A monthly statement follows with every job you referred, the address, the current status, and what it paid.

Never recovered from the homeowner's claim

The referral payment comes out of our margin. It is not padded into the estimate, not billed to the carrier, and not passed along to your customer. We do not inflate scope and we do not leave equipment running past dry standard to build hours — the daily readings are in the file and you are welcome to read them.

Or bank credit instead of cash

Some shops would rather not take a check at all. You can bank the same value as service credit against your own emergency work. If one of your techs nicks a supply line in a finished basement, you call us, we clean it up, and it draws down your balance instead of your insurance. Several partners keep a balance sitting there for exactly that day.

No cost, no exclusivity, no quota

Joining costs nothing. There is no minimum, no territory lock, and nothing stopping you from sending work to somebody else next week. If we ever embarrass you in front of a customer, stop calling us — that is the only enforcement this program needs, and it keeps us honest better than a contract would.

We do not print a dollar figure on this page on purpose. The rate moves with the type of work and we would rather commit to a real number on a real call than publish one and quietly walk it back later. Call and ask — you will have it in about ninety seconds.

The estimate side of this is not a black box either — see exactly how we document and bill a loss on our insurance claims page, then ask for the line items on the first job you send us.

WHY PLUMBERS SEND US THE CALL

Your referral is your reputation. Here is what you are lending it to.

60-minute target response

Crews stage from Vienna and run 24/7. Across the Northern Virginia core we target on-site arrival within an hour of the call — including 2 a.m. on a holiday weekend, which is when most of these calls actually happen. If we cannot hit the window on a given night, you hear that on the phone instead of your customer hearing it on their doorstep.

How our emergency response runs

IICRC-certified crews, warrantied work

S500 for water, S520 for mold. Moisture meters and psychrometric readings logged daily and photographed, so drying ends when the structure is actually dry. Our mitigation work is warrantied — if something we did comes back, it comes back to us, and it never lands on the plumber who made the introduction.

We bill the carrier, not your customer

Xactimate estimates, adjuster negotiation, and the whole claim file handled on our side. On a covered loss your customer typically pays their deductible and nothing else. That is the part that makes you look good three weeks later, when they are telling their neighbor who sent us.

How we handle insurance claims

30 Northern Virginia cities covered

Vienna, Arlington, Alexandria, McLean, Reston, Fairfax, Falls Church, Ashburn, Leesburg, Manassas, Woodbridge and the rest of the map, plus Washington DC and the Maryland suburbs. If your trucks run in NoVA, we cover your service area — you never have to check first.

See every city we cover

4.9 stars, publicly

A 4.9-star average across 1,777 Google reviews, and a photo record of the work behind it. Before you spend your reputation on us, go read what the last few hundred homeowners said — that is the only due diligence this decision really needs.

Before and after the work

Your commercial accounts too

Property managers, HOAs, restaurants, medical suites, and multifamily buildings run on the same terms — same 60-minute target, same covenant, same referral. A burst riser in a 40-unit building is exactly the call we want you handing off.

Commercial restoration
SECTION / FAQ

Frequently asked

PARTNER SIGNUP // RD-PPP-001

Become a partner

Four fields and an optional one. We call you back the same business day, tell you the referral number, and put your shop in the dispatch system so your next call routes straight through. Nothing to sign, nothing to pay, and nothing changes about how you run your business.

Same-business-day callback
Nothing to sign, nothing to pay
Your dispatch number, saved in your phone

Not a plumber, or here about something else? Use our contact page instead and it lands with the same office.

Rather just talk? (888) 293-5663 — 24 / 7.

FIELD MONTAGE — DRAMATIZATION
PARTNER PROGRAM // RD-PPP-001

The next water call you walk into is worth something.

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