Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Los Gatos
Fire damage in Los Gatos rarely stops at the flames. What lingers is smoke, soot, and that acrid odor that seeps into everything from wool rugs to the lumber behind your drywall. If your home off Blossom Hill Road or up in the 95033 hills just went through a fire, call us now at (855) 915-0646. We answer live, 24/7. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration crew knows Los Gatos homes because we work in them every week, and we’ll be on site inside the hour for emergency board-up and smoke mitigation.
Los Gatos isn’t one kind of town. It’s a valley floor with Victorian-era streets and a mountain wildland-urban interface off Summit Road. That split matters when a fire hits. A 95030 Craftsman and a 95033 hilltop estate need two different restoration approaches, and most companies only really know one or the other. We work both daily.
Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is the Fire & Smoke Company Los Gatos Homeowners Call First
Wade Ferris founded this company in 2007, and he puts his name, his address, and his license number right on the contract. No shell company, no call center in another state. When a fire hits a Los Gatos home, the job gets assigned to a small crew that Wade knows by name, and Wade himself stays on the phone with the adjuster while the work gets scoped. That’s the difference between us and the national outfits that send a rotating cast of strangers.
Los Gatos homeowners have specific fears about fire restoration. The biggest one: a crew that treats your $3 million creek-side home like it’s a beige rental in San Jose. We don’t. We’ve restored smoke-damaged carriage-house doors, custom hardwood floors, and smart-home systems in the hills, and we’ve pulled smoke odor out of 100-year-old lath and plaster downtown without gutting the walls. Ask anyone on your street. The guy who shows up is likely Wade or someone he’s trained for years.
We’re locally owned and owner-operated. We answer our own phones, including Wade’s cell, at any hour. And every fire restoration job comes with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. No fine print.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Los Gatos
Smoke & Soot Removal
Smoke particles in Los Gatos homes behave differently depending on where the house sits. In a 95030 historic home near Los Gatos Creek, soot works its way into original plaster walls and old-growth framing. In a 95033 hillside estate, the same smoke gets pushed through radiant floor cavities and custom cabinetry by the mountain topography that funnels fire-season air. We clean both properly using HEPA filtration from Dri-Eaz and targeted chemical sponge work on surfaces where wet cleaning would do more damage than good.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Odor removal is the restoration step most companies rush, and it’s the one Los Gatos homeowners notice first. A house can look clean and still smell like last week’s kitchen fire. We treat the source, not just the air. That means thermal fogging, hydroxyl generators, and when a chimney fire pushed smoke through an HVAC system, we’ll clean the ductwork too. We follow every Odor job with a written scope of where the smell was found and how we treated it. No mystery. You’ll see the log.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
After a fire in Los Gatos, the furniture, rugs, electronics, and clothing in your home usually need off-site cleaning. We pack them out with a written inventory, clean them at our facility, and store them until your home is ready. High-value items like original art, custom rugs, and wine collections from hillside estates stay separated and get special handling. We photograph every box before it leaves your driveway.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
If your Los Gatos home has a broken window from the fire or a hole in the roof from the fire department’s ventilation cuts, the next storm will make it worse. We board up and tarp on the same call. In the 95033 mountain parcels, the time between a fire and the next heavy rain can be measured in hours, especially in winter. We move fast for that reason.
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.
Trusted Brands We Use on Los Gatos Fire Jobs
We run Dri-Eaz HEPA air scrubbers and Injectidry negative-pressure cleaning systems on fire restoration work in Los Gatos. The equipment matters because smoke particles are microscopic and settle into places a box fan can’t reach. We don’t show up with rental store gear. We carry professional drying and air-cleaning equipment that’s calibrated for the job, and our techs know how to run it. Our background-checked, uniformed team also uses Phoenix and XPOWER when the project calls for it. If a piece of gear breaks mid-job, we swap it out same day. We don’t leave a Los Gatos household waiting while a machine is down.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Los Gatos Homes
- Smoke behind original plaster in 95030 Victorians. Fire smoke seeps between the lath strips and lingers for decades. We inject deodorizer behind the plaster rather than tearing out walls that have stood since 1910.
- Soot coating ductwork in hillside estates. A kitchen fire in a custom home off Summit Road pushes soot through the entire HVAC system. Standard cleaning leaves residue that recirculates every time the furnace kicks on. We clean ducts, registers, and the air handler itself.
- Smoke trapped in radiant floor cavities in 95033 homes. Radiant heat systems sit inside subfloor assemblies that hold smoke like a reservoir. Air scrubbing alone won’t touch it. We use thermal fogging plus targeted injection to get smoke out of those cavities.
- Recurring odor from custom range hoods. Downtown Los Gatos homes with high-end kitchens often have custom hood venting that hides a thick soot layer. Cosmetic cleaning leaves it in place, and the kitchen smells like fire every time you cook. We remove and deep-clean those hoods as part of our odor work.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Los Gatos, CA
Here’s straight talk on what fire and smoke restoration costs in Los Gatos. A standard smoke and soot cleanup in a single room of a 95030 home typically runs $1,200 to $3,500. Whole-house odor removal after a chimney fire in a hillside estate usually lands between $4,000 and $12,000, depending on square footage and whether ductwork, radiant floor cavities, and custom cabinetry are involved. Contents pack-out and cleaning for a 3-bedroom Los Gatos home averages $3,000 to $8,000. Emergency board-up and tarping runs $600 to $1,500 for most properties, though large custom homes with oversize windows cost more. Every project gets a written scope before we start. No trip charge inside our own county, and a free second opinion on any written estimate. Call (855) 915-0646 and Wade will give you numbers you can plan around.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Gatos
Our crews cover Los Gatos and the surrounding South Bay communities. If you’re in Saratoga, Campbell, Communications Hill, or San Jose and dealing with smoke damage from a kitchen fire or wildfire, call the same number. We run the same equipment and the same 90-Day Done Right Promise across the whole area. You’ll get the same owner-operated service whether your home is a flatland rancher or a hillside estate.
Serving Los Gatos, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Gatos 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 - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Los Gatos
We treat the walls from the room side using injected deodorizers and thermal fogging, which means we don’t have to open up the plaster unless the fire itself damaged it. The smoke odor that sits behind lath and plaster gets neutralized at the source, not just masked at the surface. We’ve done this on historic homes throughout the 95030 corridor, and we know which products work on horsehair plaster without staining the original finish. Call (855) 915-0646 if you’re smelling smoke inside a downtown Los Gatos Victorian, and Wade will tell you honestly whether the walls can be saved.
Usually, yes. Custom cabinetry and hand-scraped hardwood are almost always restorable if we get to them before wet cleaning makes the damage worse. We use chemical sponges and controlled cleaning rather than flooding the wood with water, which is what causes warping and grain damage. For deep-set smoke in cabinet voids and subfloor cavities, we run Injectidry negative-pressure cleaning to pull residue out of the wood structure itself. Our techs recently finished a fire restoration off Summit Road in 95033 where the homeowner’s hand-scraped floors and custom cabinets were fully restored. The homeowner told us they couldn’t smell a trace of smoke, even in the walk-in wine cellar where the odor had been at its worst.
The 95033 mountain homes off Summit Road and Highway 17 sit in terrain that funnels wildfire smoke into every gap, and the homes there often have radiant floor heating and crawl spaces that trap smoke in ways valley homes just don’t. Access is also harder. Narrow, winding roads mean we plan equipment drops differently than a 95030 street job. And winter storms hit those mountain parcels harder and faster, so after a fire, the window for securing the home against rain can be very short. We run crews in both parts of Los Gatos every month, and the approach genuinely is different.
Yes, and we’ve handled pack-outs from Los Gatos homes with original paintings, Persian rugs, and custom electronics. Every item is photographed before it leaves your house, inventoried in writing, and cleaned at our facility using methods specific to the material. Art and rugs get different cleaning than clothing or electronics. If something can’t be restored, we’ll tell you that up front and document it for your insurer, rather than cleaning it badly and hoping you don’t notice.
We can have a crew at a Los Gatos fire site inside the hour in most cases, and board-up or tarping is often done the same day. In the 95033 hills, where winter rain arrives fast and hits hard, we prioritize these calls because a tarp delayed by twelve hours can turn a fire job into a flood job. Wade himself answers the phone at (855) 915-0646 and will tell you realistically when a crew can be on site.
Call Wade’s Restoration for Fire & Smoke Damage in Los Gatos
If your Los Gatos home has smoke damage, don’t wait for the smell to set into the framing and then call around. Call now. You’ll get Wade or someone on his team on the phone, you’ll get straight answers on cost and timeline, and you’ll get a crew that knows Los Gatos homes because we work in them all year. Free estimates. No trip charge inside the county. And a 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every fire restoration job we take.
Call (855) 915-0646 now.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of California, serving Los Gatos and the surrounding South Bay.