Water Damage Restoration in San Antonio — Extraction to Final Paint, One Contractor

We write the estimate ourselves, in Xactimate

Xactimate is the estimating platform the insurance industry works in — line-item codes, regional unit pricing, the format an adjuster reads every day. We write our scope in it in-house, which means your adjuster and our project manager are comparing the same line items instead of translating between two documents. When a scope disagreement comes up, it comes down to a specific line item and a photograph of what was behind the wall.

• Same day it is needed. No waiting on a third-party estimating service to fit your loss into their queue.
• Written by people who were in the room. The crew that took the moisture readings is the crew whose findings go into the scope — which is also why a supplement for hidden damage can be put together the day demo uncovers it.
• Within our lane, and we say where it ends. We are your contractor and documentation advocate, not a licensed public adjuster. We do not negotiate or settle your claim for a fee on your behalf — we document the loss and argue the scope.

One contractor, extraction through rebuild

The standard arrangement in this industry is two companies: a mitigation crew dries the structure and leaves, and a rebuild contractor you have to find, vet and schedule puts it back. The gap between them is where projects sit for weeks and where accountability disappears, because each company can point at the other. Raging Bull is a licensed and insured general contractor that does wet demo and remodel-grade finishes, so both halves are one contract.

• One scope, start to finish. The rebuild is priced against the same documented loss as the mitigation, so there is no second estimate that mysteriously exceeds what the carrier allowed.
• One phone number. The same people through drying, demo, the claim, the finishes and the walkthrough at the end.
• Finishes done by remodelers. Hand-matched texture, tile, cabinets and paint from the crew that does bathroom remodels for a living. Restoration work should be invisible when it is finished.

You're paying out of pocket

A single room caught early — a supply line under a sink, a water heater that let go while someone was home — often is not worth a claim at all, because the deductible can be most of the job. For losses that size we quote a flat number before equipment goes through the door, and it does not move unless the scope does.

What actually moves the number

• How many rooms the water reached, and what it crossed — tile, carpet, or wood.
• Whether the subfloor is wet. This is the big one: a wet subfloor is the difference between drying a room and rebuilding one.
• Whether drywall and insulation have to come out, or can be dried in place with the wall opened low.
• How many days the air movers and dehumidifiers have to run before the moisture readings say dry.
• The category of water — clean supply line, grey water, or sewage — which decides what can be saved and what has to go.
• What the rebuild actually is: paint and baseboard, or flooring, cabinets, and tile.

Call (512) 665-1073 and describe what happened — you'll get a real number on the phone, not a “we'd have to come look at it.” If we can't price it honestly without seeing it, we'll say that too.

The adjuster calls come to us

The part nobody warns you about isn't the cost — it's the phone. The adjuster wants measurements. Then photos of the back wall, by six o'clock. Then a question about what's under the flooring. Handled by a homeowner between work and dinner, that is how a claim quietly shrinks.

We take that off you: the estimate, the scope disagreements, the supplements, the photos on demand. The same person who answers the phone at two in the morning is the one who talks to your adjuster at two in the afternoon.

Timeline is a different question from price

Structural drying is typically 2–4 days whoever is paying. The equipment runs until the moisture readings say dry, not until the calendar says so — and that part does not speed up or slow down based on who is writing the check. The rebuild after it is what varies with scope.

An insurance job doesn't take longer because the work is slower. It takes longer because approvals sit between the steps — and the only thing that shortens that is documentation good enough that there's nothing left to argue about.