# About Abatement

## What Abatement is

Abatement is a directory of asbestos removal and lead abatement contractors. Each listing page shows what we know about one abatement contractor.

## Where the data comes from

We take records from the sources below.

- [Listing enrichment](https://abatement.fyi). License: source. Data updated by hand.
- [Public licence registers and member directories](https://abatement.fyi/sources). License: Mixed source terms; see notes. Delaware: Public Domain. Overture Maps Places: CDLA-Permissive-2.0. Other registers: no reuse licence established unless qualified in notes.. Data updated by hand.
- [Business websites](https://abatement.fyi/). License: Business website facts; original text and images retain their rights.. Data updated by hand.

## A listing is a record, not an endorsement

A listing shows what we know about one abatement contractor. It does not mean that we recommend it.

## How a listing is checked

Every published listing has its own page, and search engines can index it.

Our team reviews each new listing before it goes live.

An owner proves control of a listing with an email address on the business domain or a manual check by our team.

An owner change to the name, phone, website, street address, address line 2, city, region, postal code and country goes to review before it shows.

## Claim or correct a abatement contractor

To claim a listing that is unclaimed, open it and select "Claim this listing".

To report a mistake, open the listing and select "Suggest a change".

You can also write to us at support@abatement.fyi.

- [Find your abatement contractor](https://abatement.fyi/search)
- [Add a abatement contractor](https://abatement.fyi/submit). Tell us about a abatement contractor we do not list.
- [Contact us](https://abatement.fyi/contact)

Also on the [web page](https://abatement.fyi/about).