The standards behind every Estimate Review finding.
Estimate Review's rubric checks scope against a specific set of standards and regulations, not a vague sense of "best practice." Every one of them is listed here, with a link to the official source. If nothing in this list actually supports a finding, Estimate Review labels it practice-based instead of guessing a citation.
The IICRC standards Estimate Review's Category and Class logic is built on.
ANSI/IICRC S500
The water damage restoration industry's consensus standard: how to assess the Category (1-3) and Class (1-4) of a water loss, and the drying, cleaning, and documentation procedures that follow from that assessment. Estimate Review's equipment sizing reads from it directly -- and when an estimate scopes fewer air movers or dehumidifiers than the sizing calls for, the shortfall is what gets priced.
Official source →ANSI/IICRC S520
The companion standard for mold remediation: containment, clearance testing, and post-remediation verification for mold-damaged structures and contents.
Official source →ANSI/IICRC S700
IICRC's standard for fire and smoke damage restoration: evaluation, mitigation, cleaning, deodorization, and sealing of fire- and smoke-affected structures and systems.
Official source →The hazard triggers that flag for field confirmation.
Estimate Review never asserts a positive lead or asbestos result -- it flags scope that would trigger these rules if the field facts confirm it, and cites the regulation that applies.
EPA Lead RRP Rule
Requires certified, lead-safe work practices whenever renovation, repair, or painting work disturbs painted surfaces in housing or child-occupied facilities built before 1978.
Official source →OSHA 29 CFR 1926.62
The construction-industry lead standard: exposure limits, monitoring, and protective-equipment requirements for work that disturbs lead-based paint or other lead-containing material.
Official source →OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1025
The general-industry counterpart to 1926.62: the airborne lead exposure limit and biological monitoring requirements for work outside active construction sites.
Official source →EPA Asbestos NESHAP
Inspection, notification, and work-practice requirements that apply before demolition or renovation work that may disturb asbestos-containing material.
Official source →Model code editions cited for roofing and building-envelope findings.
Ice barrier, drip edge, flashing, underlayment, and ventilation checks reference specific sections of these editions. Codes are adopted locally with amendments, so the edition and any amendment that actually applies depends on the jurisdiction -- Estimate Review's roofing findings are scoped to the edition it can confirm, not assumed nationally.
Two references we compiled ourselves.
Permit-exemption reference
A working reference we compiled from model-code permitting provisions, used to flag scope that typically requires a permit (structural, electrical, plumbing, mechanical) versus cosmetic, like-kind repairs. It flags for field confirmation -- it is not a legal permit determination.
Code adoption by jurisdiction
A reference tracking which cities, counties, and states have adopted which code edition, and any local amendment on top of it (an added ice-barrier requirement, for example). Used to scope a roofing citation to the jurisdiction it actually applies to.
What the standards say, and what your carrier pays for, are different questions.
Everything above is public and applies to everyone. The estimating guidelines your carrier or TPA publishes are neither -- they are specific to that program, and they routinely refuse things the standards support.
Your own guidelines, read and applied
Upload the estimating guidelines a carrier or TPA sent you and Estimate Review checks the estimate against them alongside the standards above, quoting the sentence and page behind each flag. Those documents stay inside your organization; nothing about them is pooled or shared.
When the two disagree, you see both
S500 supports antimicrobial application on a contaminated loss; several carriers refuse it on Category 1. Review still reports the gap and the standard behind it, and tells you plainly that the guideline governing this claim disallows it. How Estimate Review works.
Terms Estimate Review uses, defined plainly.
- Category of water (1-3)
- IICRC S500's classification of a water loss by contamination level: Category 1 is clean water, Category 2 ("gray water") carries some contamination, Category 3 ("black water") is grossly contaminated -- sewage backups, flooding from rivers, and similar sources.
- Class of water intrusion (1-4)
- IICRC S500's classification of how much moisture a structure's materials have absorbed, from Class 1 (least, limited to part of a room) to Class 4 (deeply held moisture in low-permeance materials like hardwood or concrete, needing specialty drying).
- ACM / RACM
- Asbestos-Containing Material, and the subset the EPA regulates more strictly as Regulated ACM: friable material, or material likely to become friable during the work, containing more than 1% asbestos.
- NESHAP
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants -- the EPA's Clean Air Act program that includes the asbestos work-practice rule cited above.
- RRP threshold
- The EPA Lead RRP Rule's dividing line: housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978, when lead-based residential paint was banned for consumer use.