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•16 May, 2025
Why Restoration Companies Are Replacing Paper SOPs With Digital Alternatives
The SOP binder was there. Technically.
Coffee-stained. Dog-eared. Wedged under a stack of customer receipts on the passenger seat.
It had the right steps...if you could find the right page. If you could remember to look through it. If you weren’t ankle-deep in Category 3 water with a distraught customer staring over your shoulder.
Across town, another restoration technician walked into a similar CAT-3 water loss job site. She tapped open a digital SOP on her phone, complete with annotated pho
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The SOP binder was there. Technically.
Coffee-stained. Dog-eared. Wedged under a stack of customer receipts on the passenger seat.
It had the right steps...if you could find the right page. If you could remember to look through it. If you weren’t ankle-deep in Category 3 water with a distraught customer staring over your shoulder.
Across town, another restoration technician walked into a similar CAT-3 water loss job site. She tapped open a digital SOP on her phone, complete with annotated pho
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