Fast, Reliable Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup Across Selma
Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Selma typically costs between $1,800 and $6,500 depending on the scope, and our crews can usually be on site in Selma within 90 minutes of your call. We’re not a national franchise with a call center in another state. Wade Ferris owns this company, publishes his address, and answers his own phone. If you’re dealing with a trauma scene, an unattended death, or a hoarding situation in Selma, call (855) 915-0646 right now and Wade will walk you through exactly what happens next.
Selma homes present a specific set of problems during biohazard work that you won’t find in most Central Valley cities. The vineyards ringing the south and west sides of town don’t just produce raisins. They push water through clay soil into crawl spaces all summer long, which means a trauma cleanup in a 1950s raised-foundation house near a vineyard edge often turns into a combined biohazard and structural-drying job. We’ve been doing this kind of work across Selma long enough that we check for crawl space moisture before we even bring equipment inside.
Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is Selma’s Preferred Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup Company
Wade Ferris founded this company in 2007 and has spent eighteen years building a reputation in small Valley towns like Selma the hard way: by showing up, doing the work, and answering the phone when something goes sideways. We’re locally owned and owner-operated. The name on the truck is the name of the man you’ll talk to. Ask anyone on your street. In a town the size of Selma, somebody you know has either used us or knows somebody who has.
Our Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup team is background-checked and uniformed, and every single member carries IICRC credentials. That matters when you’re letting strangers into a house where a death occurred. We also carry RIA affiliation and IFA recognition, which are the industry’s hardest standards to meet. But what matters more in Selma is that we’re local enough to be at your door fast and accountable enough to see you at the grocery store afterward.
Wade’s Restoration of California works throughout Selma and the surrounding farm towns, from the older neighborhoods along Floral Avenue to the newer tract developments east of Highway 99. Our dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our Fresno office, which puts us about thirty minutes from most Selma addresses. When you call, a live person answers. Not a voicemail tree. Not an answering service. Wade himself picks up.
Our Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup Services in Selma
Crime Scene Cleanup
Crime scenes in Selma homes require fast containment before blood and other biological material soak into porous surfaces. Once fluids penetrate subflooring or drywall, the job shifts from cleaning to removal. In Selma’s older homes, that’s a bigger deal than it sounds. Many of the wood-framed houses built from the 1940s through the 1970s have raised foundations with crawl spaces underneath. If blood seeps through flooring, it enters that crawl space and contaminates joists and subfloor framing. Our team handles it all: containment, removal, disinfection, and verification that the space is safe to occupy again.
Trauma & Unattended Death Cleanup
An unattended death in a Selma home is not just a cleanup job. It’s a biohazard event that has often been developing for days or weeks before discovery. Bodily fluids penetrate flooring, soak into subflooring, and create odor and contamination that surface cleaning cannot fix. We treat these scenes with the respect they deserve and the thoroughness the situation demands. We also photograph everything for your insurance claim and deal directly with your adjuster so you don’t have to relive the details over the phone.
Hoarding Cleanup
Hoarding situations in Selma’s older homes bring their own complications. We’ve worked houses where the accumulated material concealed failing galvanized plumbing, rodent infestations, and mold that had been growing unnoticed for years. Our hoarding cleanup process respects the homeowner’s situation while making the space safe. We sort, remove, disinfect, and coordinate with hoarding support services when asked. In Selma’s 1940s-1970s housing stock, we also watch for the plumbing failures that hoarding conditions tend to hide.
Blood & Bodily Fluid Cleanup
Blood cleanup in Selma homes requires more than bleach and elbow grease. Bloodborne pathogens are a real hazard, and OSHA-compliant cleanup means proper containment, removal of affected porous materials, and hospital-grade disinfection of the remaining structure. In Selma’s raised-foundation homes, our crews always check the crawl space beneath the affected area. Irrigation-driven moisture from nearby vineyards can spread contamination laterally through damp subflooring, which means a small visible stain sometimes indicates a much larger problem underneath.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Selma
Our crews run professional-grade equipment from Injectidry, Phoenix, and XPOWER. That’s not a brand-name flex for the website. It matters because Selma’s older homes need serious air movement and dehumidification after biohazard work, especially during Tule fog season when nothing dries on its own. We keep stock on hand for the equipment we use most in Selma, and we’re an IICRC-certified firm, which means our moisture readings, drying logs, and disinfection protocols meet the industry’s documented standards. Wade hands every homeowner the full moisture log at job’s end. Almost nobody else in this trade does that.
Common Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup Problems We See in Selma Homes
- Crawl space contamination beneath raised foundations. Homes built in the 1950s and 60s on Selma’s south and west sides sit close to flood-irrigated vineyards. When a biohazard scene occurs above, blood and fluids seep down into crawl spaces that are already damp from lateral irrigation moisture. That means full framing removal far more often than in drier cities.
- Secondary mold after Tule fog season cleanups. From roughly November through February, Selma sits under dense ground fog for weeks at a time. After disinfection, wall cavities and subfloor materials stay damp. Without aggressive drying, cleaned trauma scenes develop mold inside the same walls we just treated.
- Aging galvanized plumbing failures during cleanup. Selma’s 1940s-1970s homes run on galvanized pipe that corrodes in the Valley’s hard water. We’ve had more than one biohazard job turn into an unexpected water-loss event when a pipe let go mid-cleanup, spreading contamination into areas that had been untouched.
- Slab-on-grade homes with hidden wicking moisture. The 1980s-90s tract homes on Selma’s east side sit on clay soil that expands and contracts through the Valley’s extreme temperature swings. Slab cracks let moisture wick upward, which complicates moisture mapping and extends drying times after any biohazard work.
Pricing for Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup in Selma, CA
Here’s what you can expect in Selma’s market. Trauma and unattended death cleanup typically runs $2,400 to $6,500 depending on how long the scene sat undiscovered and how much structural material must be removed. Blood cleanup in a contained area usually falls between $1,200 and $3,800. Hoarding cleanups range from $2,800 to $8,000 based on volume, access, and whether plumbing or mold issues are uncovered. Infectious disease disinfection services generally run $900 to $2,500. The big variable in Selma is crawl space work. If contamination or moisture has spread into subfloor framing, add $1,500 to $4,000. Every estimate is free, in writing, with a scope agreed before work starts. Call (855) 915-0646 and Wade will give you honest numbers. No trip charge inside Fresno County. Senior and Veteran discount of 10% always.
One thing we want Selma homeowners to understand: flood-irrigated vineyards on the south and west sides drive moisture laterally through the clay soil into crawl spaces year-round. That means biohazard scenes in those homes often involve simultaneous mold remediation, a two-part problem neighboring foothill cities rarely see. A national franchise estimator who doesn’t know Selma’s irrigation patterns will miss that entirely. We won’t. We learned it the hard way, one flooded crawl space at a time.
We were called to a 1950s raised-foundation house on Selma’s south side near a vineyard edge after an unattended death was discovered. The crawl space was already damp from summer flood irrigation, and mold had colonized the subfloor framing. Our team contained the trauma scene, removed biohazardous materials, then coordinated with our restoration side to tear out affected framing and dry the space properly. The homeowner had called two other companies first. Both quoted surface cleaning only. Neither checked the crawl space.
We Also Serve Cities Near Selma
If you’re in Fowler, Parlier, Kingsburg, or Reedley, we handle biohazard and crime scene cleanup there too. The same owner, the same crew standards, the same written 90-Day Done Right Promise on every restoration contract. Call (855) 915-0646 and Wade can be heading your way within the hour.
Serving Selma, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Selma area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Biohazard & Crime Scene Cleanup in Selma
It can add $1,500 to $4,000 to a typical Selma trauma cleanup. When the home sits near flood-irrigated vineyards, lateral moisture through clay soil keeps crawl spaces damp year-round. That means blood and bodily fluids soak into already-compromised subfloor framing, which requires removal and structural repair rather than surface disinfection. A dry crawl space in a drier city might only need surface cleaning. Selma’s irrigation patterns change the math. Call (855) 915-0646 for a free estimate, and we’ll check the crawl space before quoting.
Yes, and we plan for it before we start. Selma homes built from the 1940s through the 1970s run on galvanized pipe that corrodes readily in the Valley’s hard water. In hoarding situations, that pipe is often concealed behind years of accumulated material. When we begin removing hoarded items and shifting weight, old plumbing can fail. Our crews coordinate hoarding cleanup with plumbing assessment so a contained job doesn’t become a water-loss event that spreads contamination. Call (855) 915-0646 to talk through your specific situation.
From roughly November through February, Selma sits under dense Tule fog for weeks at a time, which keeps ambient humidity high and prevents building materials from drying after disinfection. Even a properly cleaned trauma scene can develop secondary mold in wall cavities and subfloor spaces because moisture never fully leaves the structure. That’s why we bring in extra dehumidification and run longer drying cycles during fog season. It’s also why a written 90-Day Done Right Promise matters: if mold appears after we leave, Wade comes back. Call (855) 915-0646 and ask about our fog-season protocol.
Yes, and we’ve seen it happen in Selma. Flood irrigation on vineyards adjacent to residential lots pushes water laterally through the clay soil. That water enters crawl spaces under raised foundations and saturates the ground beneath the house. If a biohazard event occurs above that crawl space, fluids mix with irrigation moisture and spread further than they would in a dry home. By the time a homeowner calls us, the affected area is often larger than it appears from inside the house. Call (855) 915-0646 and we’ll crawl the space before giving you a scope.
Not if you call us first. We handle both biohazard cleanup and mold remediation under one roof, which matters in Selma because the two problems are frequently connected here. Older raised-foundation homes near vineyard edges often have mold colonizing subfloor framing before any trauma event occurs. If we’re already tearing out contaminated materials, addressing the mold at the same time saves you a second mobilization and a second bill. Wade’s Restoration of California is IICRC-certified for both types of work. Call (855) 915-0646 and we’ll give you one written scope that covers both.
Wade’s Restoration of California is the locally owned, owner-operated alternative to the national franchises. The owner’s name is on the truck. His number is in your phone after the first call. If something isn’t done right, the 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing, and one call brings Wade back. That’s the whole deal.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of California, serving Selma since 2007.