Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration
Board-up, soot and fire residue removal, smoke odor work, contents cleaning and HVAC. Structure and contents are two separate jobs.
A fire is over quickly. What it leaves behind is not, and it is rarely what people expect.
The obvious part is the burned area. The part that costs more is everything the fire touched without burning: fire residues carried by heat and air movement into rooms nobody would think to check, drawn through door openings and HVAC returns, settling on surfaces that look untouched until you wipe one.
Then there is the water. Almost every structure fire produces a water loss on top of the fire loss, from suppression, sprinklers or a hose line. That water has been sitting in a building full of residues, and it does not behave like a burst pipe. It gets handled as its own job, with its own category determination.
We work three fronts at once. The structure — cleaning, decontamination, and removal of what cannot be cleaned. The contents — inventoried, evaluated, and either treated on site or moved out for processing. And the air — because smoke odor lives in materials, not in the air, and blowing air around a building does not remove it.
Odor is the part people judge you on. It is also the part where the trade is full of shortcuts. Masking an odor with fragrance is not deodorization; the smell comes back in the first humid week. Odor work begins with source removal — taking out the material that is holding the residue — and only then moves to the equipment. Which equipment depends on whether the building is occupied, and that is a real constraint, not a detail.
Where we stop. Reconstruction — rebuilding what the fire destroyed — is a separate line of work from fire damage restoration, scoped and estimated separately. Fires in industrial or chemical settings, and buildings with special requirements such as healthcare or laboratory environments, carry obligations beyond general fire and smoke restoration. Ask us before you assume the job is ours.
Our fire and smoke work follows ANSI/IICRC S700, Standard for Professional Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration, 1st Edition (2025).
Emergency board-up of openings, and tarping where the roof is compromised
Assessment of where fire residues traveled, including rooms away from the fire
Water extraction and drying where suppression water is present
Structural cleaning and decontamination of affected surfaces
Removal of materials holding residue that cannot be cleaned
Contents inventory, evaluation, on-site cleaning or pack-out for processing
Air duct and HVAC cleaning where the system ran during or after the fire
Smoke odor work, starting at the source
HEPA vacuuming — Removal of deposited soot particles from surfaces before any wet cleaning.
Air scrubbers — Multi-stage filtration units that draw air through and remove airborne particles and odors.
Hydroxyl generators — Can be used in occupied spaces, which means work continues while the building is in use.
Ozone generators — Used only in unoccupied areas and under professional supervision. If someone is living in the building, this is not the tool.
Thermal fogging — Fine droplets carried by heat into spaces that cannot be reached by hand.
Odor counteracting beads — Slow-release vapor for residual odor after source removal.
A map of where fire residues were found, room by room
A contents inventory, with what was treated and what could not be
Photographs before and during the work
An itemized estimate, separating fire restoration from any reconstruction
24/7 emergency line — (555) 555-0142
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