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294 GTA firms · July 2026

Toronto restoration companies, sorted by who is open and who answers

Water, fire, sewage and mould restoration firms across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, each listed with its hours, its area, its Google rating and a quote request. Ranked by the RestorationIndex Score. Nothing here can be paid for.

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Which top-rated restoration companies are homeowners hiring this month?

Ranked by the RestorationIndex Score

These are the 8 highest-ranked restoration companies across the Greater Toronto Area right now, ordered by the RestorationIndex Score described on the methodology page rather than by who paid. Each row carries the score, the Google rating and review count behind it, the area it works, and a quote request.

What restoration services does RestorationIndex cover?

RestorationIndex covers 4 restoration and remediation categories across the Greater Toronto Area, from water damage and flooded basements to mold, fire and sewage cleanup, so you can compare specialists in the exact emergency you have instead of generalists. Behind the directory sits a dataset of 294 businesses, each scored on reviews, on what the company states on its own site and on its record, at an average rating of 4.75 across 238 rated companies. Every category hub ranks the firms working that trade on the published score alone, never on ad spend, and every one of them ends in a quote request. Typical GTA pricing for each service is researched from named local sources, so you can read a contractor's figure against something. Pick a service below for the ranked list, who covers which area, and what the job usually costs here.

How much does restoration cost in Toronto?

Emergency restoration is priced by how far the damage spread, not a flat rate. A typical GTA water damage restoration runs $3,000–$25,000 and mold remediation $1,500–$15,000, while an independent mold inspection is $300–$1,500. Much of a restoration bill is often covered by home insurance.

Every figure in these guides traces to a named Canadian source, never to an estimate of our own. Each guide sets out what actually moves the price, what home insurance usually absorbs, and the Ontario rules that apply, so the number a contractor gives you on the phone lands against something.

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Typical GTA job, by service

Where does RestorationIndex cover across the GTA?

RestorationIndex maps every one of its 294 listings to the Toronto neighbourhood, borough or GTA city nearest its map pin, so you can start with the companies closest to you. That is where a firm is based, not a promise about how far it travels: most restoration companies here cover far more ground than one neighbourhood, so an area page is a starting point rather than the full field. Coverage now spans 45 areas, from downtown Toronto and the boroughs of North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke out to cities like Mississauga, Vaughan and Markham. By listed-company count, the deepest coverage right now is in Islington-City Centre West (38), Burlington (25), Willowdale (19), Don Mills (17), Markham (15). Each area page orders the firms working there by the same published score and shows which of them run around the clock, which matters more than anything else when the damage started at midnight. Open the area nearest the water to see who is closest.

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How does RestorationIndex work?

There is not much to it, and that is deliberate. You narrow the list by the damage or by where you are, you read what public review data says about the firms that come back, and you send a request to one.

  1. 01

    Compare ranked companies

    Start from the damage or from where you are. Either way the list comes back in published-score order, never in paid order.

  2. 02

    Read the row

    Every row carries the same fields: rating, review count, the area, whether the firm runs 24 hours or when it closes today.

  3. 03

    Send a request

    A company that has claimed its listing publishes the number it wants you to call. For every other row, the request form reaches RestorationIndex.

How does RestorationIndex rank companies?

Every company here carries one score out of 100, and the list is in that order. It is built from three pillars. 40 points for what its customers said, on a rating blended with the dataset average of 4.76 using a 10-review prior, so a 5.0 on 4 reviews cannot leapfrog a 4.8 on 300. 35 points for what the company states on its own website, read off the page and kept with the exact sentence it came from: licensing, insurance, WSIB coverage, the standards bodies it names, how long it says it has been going. And 25points for its record, meaning a website that still answers, a phone number, photos, hours, and the themes its own reviewers keep repeating. Nobody here checked a licence or a certificate, so a profile says “Says it is licensed” and never “Licensed”. No company can buy a higher position, and the method is identical for all 294 listings.

Read the full methodology
40what its customers said
35what it states on its own site
25website and record
26–86the spread these scores actually run across

What should you ask a Toronto restoration company before hiring?

Restoration is bought in a hurry, which is exactly when scope, insurance and price get agreed too loosely. These are the questions worth asking on the first call, before equipment is on the floor.

RestorationIndex questions, answered

How does RestorationIndex rank restoration companies?

RestorationIndex ranks companies on one published score out of 100, built from three things: what its customers said (40 points, on a rating adjusted for review volume so a 5.0 on 4 reviews cannot outrank a 4.8 on 300), what the company states on its own website about licensing, insurance, standards bodies and years going (35), and its record, meaning a website that answers, a phone, photos and hours (25). No business can pay to rank higher. Every weight is on our methodology page.

Is RestorationIndex free for homeowners?

Yes, and there is nothing to sign up for. All 294 company records and every cost guide are open to read. Nothing on this site is gated, nothing is sold, and a company cannot buy its way up the list. When you find the firm you want, you send it a request from its profile. A company that has claimed its listing also publishes the number it wants you to call.

Does RestorationIndex take my details or send them to contractors?

There is a request form, and what you send through it reaches RestorationIndex. Your details are not published on the site and are not sold. Everything else the site shows about a firm comes from public Google Maps records, and no company has paid for its place in any list.

Which areas does RestorationIndex cover?

RestorationIndex covers the Greater Toronto Area, from downtown Toronto and the boroughs of North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke out to 45-plus neighbourhoods and cities including Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham and Oakville. We track 294 businesses across 4 service categories.

How current is the review data on RestorationIndex?

Every rating and review count on RestorationIndex comes from public Google Maps data, refreshed for the July 2026 dataset. Across the 238 of our 294 companies that carry a rating and at least three reviews, the average is 4.75 stars. We re-rank pages as new reviews land, so positions reflect current reputation.

294 companies196 open 24hmedian rating 5.0July 2026

Know your area but not the trade?

Every area in the index has its own page listing the restoration companies based there, each with its hours and a quote request.

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