Free visual inspection and a written scope of work before any mitigation begins - photos, moisture readings, and drying logs go in your claim file
The scope we write is the scope we bill. Anything new gets shown to you, in writing, before we touch it.
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AfterTrusted Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration for Williamsburg Homeowners
A kitchen fire in a Williamsburg walk-up rarely stays in the kitchen. Smoke pushes through every gap it can find, soot settles into plaster and fabric, and within 48 hours the acid in that residue starts eating into metal fixtures, grout, and painted surfaces. Fire and smoke damage restoration in Williamsburg typically costs between $2,800 and $9,500 depending on square footage and how far the smoke traveled, and the first call you make determines whether your belongings get cleaned or replaced.
Wade’s Restoration has handled fire and smoke jobs across Williamsburg since 2007. Wade Ferris answers his own phone, shows up himself for the board-up, and stays on the job until the last box of contents comes back. Our home base sits right in the area, we’re fully licensed and insured, and we can have a crew at your door the same day you call. If your house just burned, even a little, call (363) 666-2319 right now. You’ll talk to Wade, not a call center.
What Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Service Includes
Fire damage is never just one problem. It’s the char, the smoke film on every surface, the smell that lives in drywall and floorboards, and the water from the fire department’s hoses all at once. Here’s what we do, piece by piece.
Fire Damage Cleanup
This is the heavy lifting that happens first: removing charred drywall, burned framing, ruined insulation, and debris before it can keep off-gassing into the rest of the house. In Williamsburg’s older housing stock, we routinely find that fire that looks contained to one room has carried heat into the joist bays above it, which means opening ceilings to check. Wade’s crew removes what’s burned, seals off the rest, and documents every layer so your insurance adjuster sees exactly what came out and why.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot isn’t just grime. It’s acidic, and it etches glass, corrodes metal, and stains painted walls if it sits too long. We use dry chemical sponges and HEPA vacuuming on surfaces first, then move to wet cleaning with the right chemistry for each material: alkaline cleaners for soot, not the same cleaner you’d use for mold. In Brooklyn apartments and rowhouses, where walls are shared with neighbors, this step keeps a kitchen fire from becoming a building-wide odor problem.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Smoke smell gets into cavities. Not just surfaces: the space inside walls, under floors, in the return ductwork. We treat odor as a contamination problem, not a masking problem. That means hydroxyl generators and thermal fogging paired with sealing where the fire’s heat opened pores in paint and wood. When we’re done, you shouldn’t smell the fire at all, on a humid day, with the windows shut.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
The clothes, books, dishes, and furniture that survived the fire still carry smoke. We inventory, pack, and transport them to our cleaning facility where every item gets ultrasonically cleaned, ozone treated, or hand-cleaned depending on what it’s made of. Then we store everything in a climate-controlled space until your home is rebuilt enough to bring it back. You get a line-item inventory, so you know what left, what’s being cleaned, and when it’s coming home.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
After the fire department leaves, your house is open. A hole in the roof or a missing window is an invitation to weather, squatters, and theft. We board up and tarp within hours, not days, using plywood and fasteners that won’t further damage the framing. This is the single most time-sensitive piece of fire restoration, especially in Williamsburg where a vacant-looking building draws attention fast, and we treat it that way.
Structural Fire Repair
Fire weakens framing, char compromises load-bearing members, and water used to fight the fire soaks everything it touches. Our reconstruction crews reframe, re-sheet, re-insulate, and rebuild to current code. Because Wade’s Restoration handles water damage as well as fire, there’s no handoff between mitigation and rebuild; the same team that dried the structure is the one putting it back together, which means fewer delays and no finger-pointing between contractors.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Brands We Service for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration
We see a lot of equipment in this work: portable deodorizers, air scrubbers, drying equipment left behind by previous mitigation attempts. Wade’s crew is factory-trained on Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying systems and we keep their tools on our trucks because they’re the ones we trust when there’s standing water under a burned floor. If your home had a Phoenix dehumidifier running after a water event and then a fire followed, we know how to integrate that equipment with our fire restoration process without wasting time.
The actual restoration work, though, leans on standards, not brands. Wade carries IICRC certification in fire and smoke restoration, and the company is affiliated with RIA and IFA. What that means for you: we follow the same cleaning protocols and documentation standards that insurance companies recognize, and when your adjuster asks for moisture logs, soot mapping, and a line-item scope of loss, we hand it over without a fight. Whether your home has a specific brand of furnace, a particular type of ductwork, or any other piece of equipment touched by the fire, we can handle it.
Signs You Need Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Right Now
- You can still smell smoke a week after the fire. If the odor persists after airing out the house, smoke particles are embedded in porous materials: drywall, insulation, carpet, upholstery. What you’re smelling are the finest, most toxic particles from the fire, and they won’t leave on their own.
- Soot is visible on walls, ceilings, or around vents. Soot migrates on air currents, so finding it in rooms the fire never touched means your HVAC system pushed it through the entire house. That’s a whole-home contamination problem, not a one-room cleanup.
- Yellowing or staining is spreading on painted surfaces. Smoke residue that’s left on walls will slowly discolor paint and plastics over weeks. The longer it sits, the deeper it gets into the finish, and repainting without proper cleaning just seals the acid in.
- Metal surfaces are showing signs of corrosion or pitting. Soot is acidic enough that it will pit chrome and tarnish brass within days. If you’re seeing spots appear on doorknobs, hinges, or appliances, the same residue is working on any exposed metal in the walls too.
- You had a fire department response with water. Even a small fire means water was sprayed, and that water is now inside your walls and floors. Mold can start in 48 hours in the right conditions, and a fire that got put out fast can still leave you with a slow water damage problem behind the drywall.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Process - Step by Step
The goal is to stop the damage from spreading, document everything, and get you back into a clean, safe house. Here’s how we work, in order.
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Same-day assessment and board-up. Wade heads out to see the damage, takes moisture readings and soot samples, and gets the structure weather-tight if it isn’t already. He’ll sit down with you and explain what’s urgent, what’s not, and what the next 72 hours will look like.
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Water removal and drying. If the fire department left standing water, we extract it and set up drying equipment before any fire work begins. You can’t clean soot off a wet wall, and mold will beat us to the punch if we don’t move fast. Throughout drying, Wade handles your insurance adjuster’s questions directly.
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Debris removal and contaminant capture. Burned materials come out, and we set up HEPA air scrubbers to keep the soot that’s already in the air from settling into clean rooms. This is also when we start the full photo and written documentation that goes to your carrier.
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Structural cleaning and deodorization. Ceilings, walls, floors, fixtures: everything gets the soot-specific treatment it needs. We thermal-fog the cavities that can’t be reached any other way and monitor the air quality until it’s actually clean.
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Contents processing and rebuild. Personal property gets packed out, cleaned, inspected, and stored. Meanwhile, reconstruction crews rebuild what the fire destroyed, and when the space is ready, your belongings come home. The 90-Day Done Right Promise applies to the entire job, in writing.
How Much Does Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Cost in Williamsburg?
What actually moves the price: how much of the home got wet, whether drywall needs to come out for access, whether we’re cleaning or replacing contents, how far the odor traveled, and whether an adjuster is involved. We don’t do phone-quote games. Wade walks the property, writes out a line-item scope, and you approve it before work starts: the same price on the phone is the price in the paperwork. A free estimate means exactly that, free, no hidden trip charge anywhere in our own county. And if you want a second look at any written estimate from another company, that’s free too. Call (363) 666-2319 and we’ll set a time.
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Near Williamsburg - Our Service Area
Wade’s Restoration serves Williamsburg and the surrounding neighborhoods: Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in East New York and the Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Financial District are both within our regular response zone, and we work through Lower Manhattan, Greenpoint, eastern Williamsburg, and over into Long Island City. Typical response time inside the neighborhood is under two hours; in the wider service area, it’s the same day. If your house is sitting open after a fire, call now, and Wade can be headed your way with a board-up kit and a plan.
Serving Williamsburg, NY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Williamsburg area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Williamsburg
What is fire and smoke damage restoration?
Fire and smoke damage restoration is the process of cleaning, deodorizing, and rebuilding a structure after a fire: removing soot, eliminating smoke odor from the air and materials, drying water from firefighting efforts, cleaning or replacing belongings, and then repairing any structural damage. It also includes urgent steps like boarding up open windows and tarping roof damage. In Williamsburg, the work is typically covered by homeowner’s insurance when documented properly, and we make sure your carrier sees exactly what happened.
How long does fire damage restoration take?
A smoke-only cleanup in a small apartment might take 3 to 5 days. A fire that damaged structural framing and requires rebuild work typically runs 2 to 6 weeks, depending on permit timelines and the extent of the damage. Emergency board-up and tarping happens within hours, and contents cleaning often continues at our facility while the house is being rebuilt.
How much does fire and smoke damage restoration cost in Williamsburg?
Most Williamsburg fire and smoke restoration jobs fall between $2,800 and $9,500 for the cleanup and mitigation phase; full rebuilds with contents cleaning can run higher based on what was burned and what was wet. The factors are square footage, how much drywall and insulation came out, whether the odor penetrated the HVAC system, and how much of your personal property needs cleaning. We provide a written, line-item quote for free before any work begins, and the price doesn’t move after that.
Do you service homes with Phoenix or Dri-Eaz drying equipment still inside?
Yes. If you had prior water mitigation equipment from another company still in place when the fire happened, we’ll work with it or swap it out for our own equipment depending on what’s safe and functional. Wade’s crews train on Dri-Eaz and Phoenix systems and can integrate them with our HEPA scrubbers and deodorization equipment without delay. We won’t bill you for removing someone else’s equipment.
Can you come out today if my house just had a fire?
Yes. Calls are answered by a live person, 24 hours a day, including holidays and 2 a.m., and Wade himself answers his own phone. He can be at your door in Williamsburg within the hour for emergency board-up and tarping. Fire restoration is a same-day emergency; we treat it that way every single time.
Does fire and smoke damage restoration come with any warranty?
Every fire and smoke restoration job we do is covered by the 90-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. That’s in writing on your contract, not a handshake. We’re IICRC-certified and affiliated with the RIA and IFA, which means we follow a standard you can hold us to, and we’re happy to explain what that standard covers on your specific job.
How should I prepare for fire damage restoration?
Don’t touch or clean anything yourself. Soot is acidic and smearing it into walls and fabrics makes professional cleaning more difficult, and some of what’s left after a fire is genuinely hazardous to breathe. Shut off HVAC systems if the fire was nearby, stay out of the affected rooms, and call us or your insurance company first. We’ll guide you through what to do while we’re on the way.
Schedule Your Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Service in Williamsburg Today
If you’re dealing with fire or smoke damage in Williamsburg, don’t wait for the smell to set in or the soot to eat into your fixtures. Call (363) 666-2319 right now and we’ll have a real person on the line: Wade or one of his team, not an answering service. Estimates are free, no trip charge inside our own county, and we’ll be there same day.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration, serving Williamsburg since 2007.