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Voted Best Restoration Company — Seven Years Running. Here's What That Means to Us.
June 15, 2026
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When Restoration 1 of Horry County opened in November 2016, we weren't exactly a household name. For the first couple of years, we were a small operation still finding our footing — building a team, earning trust one job at a time, figuring out what it meant to serve the Myrtle Beach community the right way.
By 2019 we had started to gain traction. And in 2020, something happened that we didn't take for granted: Horry County readers voted us into the Readers' Choice Awards for the first time as the best fire and water restoration company in the area.
We've placed every year since.
What the awards look like
The Readers' Choice Awards run across four Myhorrynews community publications — the Myrtle Beach Herald, North Strand News, Carolina Forest Chronicle, and Horry Independent. These are real readers, real votes, real community recognition. The category is Best Fire & Water Restoration Company, and it's not a category with a short list of small competitors. Belfor — a national restoration company that has been in business for over 40 years — competes in this same space.
Here's our record:
Myrtle Beach Herald: Winner 2023, 2025, 2026 | 2nd Place 2021, 2024 North Strand News: Winner 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026 | 2nd Place 2023 Carolina Forest Chronicle: Winner 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026 | 2nd Place 2020, 2023 Horry Independent: Winner 2023, 2025, 2026 | 2nd Place 2024
We have also been recognized four consecutive years by Sun News Best of the Beach readers in the Restoration Services category — voted on by residents across the Myrtle Beach area:
2022 — Bronze | 2023 — Gold | 2024 — Gold | 2025 — Silver
In 2026, BusinessRate independently recognized Restoration 1 of Horry County as the Best Water Damage Restoration Service in Myrtle Beach based on customer feedback and online reputation.
What we're being recognized for
When Horry County residents vote for the best water damage restoration company, the best fire damage restoration company, or the best mold remediation service in the Myrtle Beach area, they're voting based on experience. They've seen how we respond — at 2am after a pipe burst, the day after a kitchen fire, the afternoon a property manager found mold behind a wall in a Conway rental unit.
Our IICRC certification means we meet the industry's technical standards. Our response times, our communication, and our results are what earn the votes. Those are two different things, and we work hard at both.
Why we think the story matters
We opened out of a home office. We built this company from scratch in a market where the competition had decades of head starts. By year four we were being voted best restoration company in Horry County by the community we serve — across Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway, Surfside Beach, Murrells Inlet, Little River, Pawleys Island, and surrounding areas.
We didn't write these awards into existence. The homeowners, renters, property managers, and business owners who called us when something went wrong voted for them. That's the part that means something.
We plan to keep earning it.
If you're dealing with water damage, fire damage, mold, or any other property emergency in the Myrtle Beach area, call Restoration 1 of Horry County at 843-350-0231 or visit restoration1.com/horry-county. We're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In 2026, BusinessRate independently recognized Restoration 1 of Horry County as the Best Water Damage Restoration Service in Myrtle Beach based on customer feedback and online reputation.