How do you calculate the cost of missed calls for a restoration company?

Multiply the after-hours emergency calls you miss each week by 52, by the share of caught calls that would have become jobs, by your average job value. The calculator uses 50% conversion as a conservative default and lets you set the other three inputs.

How many after-hours calls does a typical restoration company miss?

In EagleCallPro's After-Hours Line Test of 159 U.S. restoration companies, 54% of after-hours calls reached nobody: 28% went to voicemail and 26% rang out with no answer. If your company receives 10 after-hours emergency calls a week and you are at the industry baseline, you miss roughly 5 or 6 of them.

What is the average value of a water damage job?

Water mitigation alone typically runs into the low thousands of dollars, and reconstruction can multiply that several times. The calculator defaults to $6,000 and lets you enter your own figure.

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What is your after-hours gap costing you a year?

Short answer: more than any answering service costs. Set your average job value and how many emergency calls you miss each week. The calculator assumes only half of caught calls turn into jobs, which is conservative for restoration, and shows what walks to a competitor every year.

Average job value $6,000

Water mitigation alone runs into the low thousands. Include reconstruction if you do it.

After-hours emergency calls you miss each week 6

Not sure? We tested 159 restoration lines after hours and 54% reached nobody. If you get 10 after-hours calls a week and you are average, you miss about 6.

Share of caught calls that become jobs 50%

An emergency caller who reaches a human usually books. 50% is deliberately low.

Walking to your competitors every year

$936,000

That is 156 jobs a year that called you first and got nobody.

$78,000Per month

$3,000Per missed call

$2,564Per day

How the calculation works

Missed calls per week, times 52, gives missed calls per year. Multiply by the share that would have become jobs, then by your average job value. That is the annual figure. The per-call number is simply job value times conversion: what each unanswered ring is worth on average before it becomes someone else's job.

What it deliberately leaves out: the ad spend behind each call. In competitive markets a water damage restoration click costs $60 to $85 per 2026 industry data. If a paid click produced the call that rang out, that money is gone too, and it is not in the figure above.

Why the default is 6 missed calls a week

Because that is roughly what the industry baseline implies for a company getting ten after-hours calls a week. We placed real calls to 159 U.S. restoration companies outside business hours, one attempt each, and 54% reached nobody: 28% went to voicemail and 26% rang out with no answer at all. The full method and results are in the After-Hours Line Test. If you do not know your own miss rate, that is the honest place to start, and the fastest way to find out is to have someone call your line at 11pm on a Saturday.

What to do with the number

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<p>Calculator by <a href="https://eaglecallpro.com/tools/missed-call-calculator">EagleCallPro</a>, defaults from the <a href="https://eaglecallpro.com/blog/after-hours-line-test-2026">After-Hours Line Test</a>.</p>

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