Minnesota puts buildings through a punishing climate cycle. Deep winter freezes burst pipes and build ice dams that force water up under shingles and into wall cavities. Spring snowmelt saturates yards and lifts basement water tables. Summer brings hail, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and 70-plus degree dew points that feed mold. Fall storms drive rain horizontally into failing siding. Every one of these events turns into a restoration job, and every job needs a crew that understands the materials, assemblies, and insurance processes specific to this state.

Patriot Building Solutions is a veteran-owned restoration and commercial cleaning company headquartered in Inver Grove Heights. Owner Israel Martinez served eight years in the Marine Corps, making E5 faster than anyone in his unit, and carries HAZMAT, First Responder, and Six Sigma certifications. He built this company specifically to deliver the things big franchise restoration brands keep promising but rarely execute: direct owner access, honest scopes, documented work, and a crew on site when they said they would be there. Ninety-nine and a half percent of our customers stay with us, because we handle their emergencies the way we would handle our own.

Our restoration work follows IICRC-aligned protocols for water (S500), mold (S520), and fire and smoke (S700) along with Minnesota Department of Health mold guidelines and EPA requirements for work in pre-1978 structures. We document every step, moisture maps, atmospheric readings, drying logs, containment photos, product safety data sheets, so your insurance claim gets paid and your property’s record shows exactly what was done. Call (651) 412-3830 24 hours a day or request a free assessment online, and we will be on site fast.

Veteran-Owned Accountability. Owner Israel Martinez answers the phone. When your basement is flooding at 2 AM or smoke is still settling after a kitchen fire, you will not be handed off to a franchise call center. Israel’s Marine Corps training shapes how this company operates: mission first, crews accountable, clear chain of communication. It is the reason our customer retention sits at ninety-nine and a half percent and our referrals come directly from adjusters and property managers who have seen us perform under pressure.

Certified, Not Just Claimed. HAZMAT, First Responder, and Six Sigma certifications on the ownership side, and IICRC-aligned protocols across the crew. Our training stack covers water damage response, mold remediation, fire and smoke cleanup, confined-space entry, and hazardous materials handling. When a job presents lead paint, asbestos concerns, sewer contamination, or mold colonies in wall cavities, we are equipped and credentialed to handle it, not subcontracting the hard parts out and hoping for the best.

Insurance Documentation That Gets Paid. Every restoration job generates a documentation package: scope of work, moisture and atmospheric logs, drying progression charts, before-and-after photos keyed to the scope, safety data sheets for every product used, and content manifests for commercial losses. Adjusters get what they need to approve claims quickly, and property owners get a complete record that satisfies buyers, lenders, and regulators later. Review our photo gallery for examples of completed restoration work.

Local, Not Franchise. We are based in Inver Grove Heights, serve the Inver Grove Heights area within a 50-mile radius, and live in the neighborhoods we restore. We understand the housing stock, pre-war Minneapolis and Saint Paul homes with plaster walls and knob-and-tube wiring, post-war ramblers in Bloomington and Richfield, exurban builds in Lakeville and Rosemount, and the commercial inventory scattered from Maple Grove to Woodbury. That familiarity translates into accurate scopes, realistic timelines, and honest conversations about what your building actually needs.

One Crew, Start to Finish. On every job, the people who scope the loss are the people who work it and the people who verify it is done. We do not rotate a fresh team through each phase and hope the notes carry over. That continuity is how nothing gets missed between the emergency call and the final handoff, and it is a big part of why nearly all of our customers stay with us and refer the next one. When you deal with the same faces from the first hour to the last, someone always knows the whole story of your building.

The Right Discipline for the Right Season. A January frozen-pipe burst, a March ice-dam leak, a June hailstorm, and an August basement mold problem are four different jobs with four different first moves. Because we run all of these disciplines under one roof, we scope the actual cause before we deploy equipment, instead of forcing every loss through a single generic playbook. That is the difference between a crew that dries a symptom and one that solves the problem the Minnesota calendar handed you.