Junk hauls, water emergencies, fire cleanup, mold remediation. One locally-owned crew, an owner who answers the phone, and a city we know inside and out.
Call us anytime: 317-853-9363
We've been doing this work in Indianapolis for 14 years. It started with junk removal, the kind of work where you show up with a truck, do what you said you'd do, and people call you back next time they need help. Over the years the work expanded. Customers who'd called us for a garage cleanout were calling back when their basement flooded. Properties we'd cleared after a tenant moved out were calling us for fire cleanup down the road. So we got certified. We learned water damage restoration the right way: the IICRC way. We took on mold work and built a partnership with an industrial hygienist for the situations that need real testing. We added fire and smoke cleanup. And we kept the same approach the whole way through: show up when you said you would, do what you said you'd do, answer the phone when people call.
"Show up when you said you would, do what you said you'd do, answer the phone when people call."
When you call The Cleaning Source, the person who answers is the same person who runs the company, drives one of the trucks, and shows up to do the assessment when something goes wrong. There's no call center or script. There's no rotating cast of customer service reps reading from a database. It's the owner, and that's not a marketing claim, it's just how the business is structured. He's been doing this work in Indianapolis for 14 years, he knows which neighborhoods flood when storms hit, which adjusters work which carriers, and which dumps charge what for what. That kind of knowledge is what locally owned actually means.
Same number, day or night, owner picks up
On-site for assessments and most jobs
14 years of local knowledge, not a franchise playbook
There's a difference between calling yourself a restoration company and being certified to do the work. Here's what we actually carry.
Industry-standard certification for water damage restoration. The IICRC sets the protocols every reputable restoration company follows.
Fully licensed to operate in Indiana for the services we provide.
Founded in 2012, serving Indianapolis and a 40-mile radius continuously since then.
Working relationship with an industrial hygienist for mold testing and post-remediation verification when situations call for it.
Every business says they're different. Here's specifically what makes us different. Concrete things, not adjectives.
When you call, you get the person who runs the business. Not a dispatcher, not voicemail, not an answering service. This is the single biggest difference between us and the franchise restoration companies you've seen on TV.
If you call us about mold and we look at it and decide you can clean it yourself with bleach and a fan, we're going to tell you that. If your water damage is small enough that you don't need professional drying, we'll say so. The reputation we've built over 14 years is worth more than any single job.
Most restoration companies only do disasters. Most junk haulers only do hauls. We do both because they share the same skills (showing up, doing physical work, communicating clearly) and because most people who call us once for one will eventually need the other. The variety also means we're not desperate to upsell every job. Junk removal pays the bills steadily, so disaster work doesn't feel like a sales pitch.
For water and fire damage, we bill your insurance directly when policies allow, document everything for the claim, and coordinate with your adjuster from day one. You don't pay out of pocket and wait for reimbursement.
Every job, every time. Doesn't matter if it's a single couch haul or a multi-day water damage restoration. The space we leave is cleaner than the space we walked into. Small thing, but it's how we were taught to do this work.
We run a tight crew. Small enough that everyone knows what they're doing, big enough to handle most jobs same-day. Our trucks and equipment are commercial-grade because the work demands it: industrial water extractors, professional-grade air movers and dehumidifiers, HEPA air scrubbers for mold and fire jobs, full PPE for sewage and biohazard situations. We invest in the right equipment because doing the job right the first time is what 14 years of repeat business is built on.
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Most of the work we do, people call us because something has gone wrong. A pipe burst. A fire happened. A loved one passed and there's a house full of stuff that needs to go. By the time someone calls a company like ours, they're usually stressed, sometimes upset, occasionally in shock. The way we treat that phone call and every interaction afterward is the entire job. The cleanup is just the technical part. The harder part, and the more important part, is making sure the person on the other end of the phone feels like they made the right call. Fourteen years of word-of-mouth referrals tells us that's the part we've gotten right.
Years in business
Mile service radius
Emergency response
of Completed Jobs
We serve homes and businesses anywhere within a 40-mile radius of Indianapolis. That includes the city itself plus all the surrounding suburbs and exurbs, from Westfield in the north to Greenwood in the south, Brownsburg in the west to Lawrence and Greenfield in the east. We've worked in pretty much every neighborhood and small town in this radius at some point over 14 years.
Junk removal, water emergency, fire cleanup, mold, or anything in between. Call or text the owner directly.