Top 5 water damage restoration companies in Detroit, MI (2026)

Our pick for Detroit

1. RMO Mitigation & Restoration

RMO is a locally owned restoration company in Southfield, 9.8 miles from Detroit. The owners work with clients directly, a person answers every call, and one company handles the whole job, from the first hour to the last repair.

Phone answered

24/7, by a person

On site

About 60 minutes

To Detroit

9.8 mi, about 17 min

Ownership

Local, not a franchise

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Why RMO is first in Detroit

We work in Detroit at every scale. Together with our sister company, RCO Cleaning, we look after a couple of large buildings in the city, and we keep a standby team for Signature Aviation at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, so a crew is ready to go if something happens at its facilities. And we answer for Detroit homeowners and landlords every week: basements that back up in a storm, pipes that burst in a cold snap, water from the floor above.

• Locally owned, not a franchise

  RMO belongs to the people who run it, here in Metro Detroit. There is no franchise office between you and the owners.

• The owners on your job

  Vadym, George and Jackson come out to jobs, work with clients directly and answer for the quality themselves.

• A person answers, 24/7

  Call 248-845-0000 at 3 a.m. and someone who can send a crew picks up. Not a recording, not a message service.

• A crew in about 60 minutes

  Across Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties. When two office buildings flooded in Southfield, we had 15 people there in 20 minutes.

• An IICRC-certified team

  Trained to the industry's standards: ANSI/IICRC S500 for water damage and S520 for mold.

• One company for everything

  Water, sewage, fire, smoke, mold, storm and biohazard work, and the contents, by our own crews; asbestos and lead by licensed abatement partners we've worked with for years.

• The rebuild, too

  Framing, drywall, flooring and finishes by our own crews, so the job ends with the company that started it.

• Crews for any size of job

  When two Dearborn buildings flooded seven hours apart, we sent 30 people, worked both at once and saved both.

• Commercial-grade equipment

  Truck-mounted and portable extractors, LGR and desiccant dehumidifiers, air movers, air scrubbers, moisture meters and thermal imaging.

• Dry by the numbers

  Moisture readings every day and a drying log, until every wet material measures the same as a dry one.

• Insurance, handled

  We work with any carrier you use and document everything an adjuster needs. Many of our clients have paid nothing beyond their deductible.

• Cleaning in the same call

  Our sister company, RCO Cleaning, works from the same office, so the cleaning before and after is one more call to the same people.

Locally owned, not a franchise

Many of the restoration names around Metro Detroit are franchises: a national brand on a locally owned office. RMO isn't one. It belongs to the people who run it, from our office at 18000 W. Nine Mile Road in Southfield, so there is no franchise layer between you and the owners. Vadym, George and Jackson come out to jobs, meet the people whose homes and buildings we're working in, and answer for the quality themselves.

What we handle in Detroit

And everything around it: board-up and tarping, contents packed out and cleaned, odor removal, mold work, asbestos and lead abatement through our licensed partners, biohazard cleanup, HVAC and duct cleaning, electronics and equipment cleaning, and the rebuild. If it happened to a building, we handle it.

Getting to Detroit fast

Our office is a few miles from Detroit's northwest side. Crews come down the Lodge Freeway or the Southfield Freeway, or along Telegraph Road on the far west side. Detroit has mainly a combined sewer system: rain and sewage share the same pipes, and when a storm overwhelms them, the water comes up through basement floor drains. On June 26, 2021, 5.77 inches of rain fell on the city, the most in a single day in at least 80 years, and city officials said about 5,000 homes had flood damage after the August 2023 storms. Nine in ten Detroit homes were built before 1980.

What happens when you call

1. 1

   A person answers

   Call 248-845-0000, day or night. Someone who can send a crew picks up.

2. 2

   A crew in about 60 minutes

   With extractors, dehumidifiers, air movers and meters already on the truck.

3. 3

   The water out, the damage mapped

   We stop the source, extract the water, and find where it went with moisture meters and thermal imaging.

4. 4

   A plan you can follow

   What we found, what we're doing and how long drying should take, with photos and readings for your insurer from the first hour.

5. 5

   Dry, then rebuilt

   We measure every day until it's dry, then our own crews do the repairs. One company, start to finish.

Insurance, handled

We will work with any insurance carrier you use. Over the years we've worked through claim after claim for homeowners, property managers and building owners. We document the damage from the first hour with photos, moisture readings and drying logs, and we work with your adjuster on the scope, so the claim can be settled on the facts and cover the whole job. Many of our clients have paid nothing beyond their deductible.

The other four on our list

These companies also serve Detroit, described by what they say on their own websites.

Questions Detroit property owners ask us