# Renovation records

A term used when buying restoration.

The federal file a restoration firm keeps whenever it touches pre-1978 housing.

A firm performing renovation on target housing must retain, and produce to the federal regulator on request, all records needed to show compliance for three years after the job. Firm certification itself expires no more than five years from approval. The mold half varies by state and the threshold is the thing to ask about. Texas requires a remediation notification, with a fee, once contamination reaches a total surface area of twenty-five contiguous square feet. It is filed no fewer than five calendar days before the work starts, or by the next working day where waiting after a water loss would spread the mold. What no primary source addresses is what a SALE does to any of it, so the transfer of these files belongs in the [purchase agreement](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/purchase-agreement) instead of being assumed.

Part of: Buying a Restoration Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-restoration-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-restoration-business/terms/renovation-records
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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