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Fire and smoke damage restoration in San Anselmo typically runs $2,800 to $9,500 for a standard kitchen fire cleanup, with full structural repairs often reaching $25,000 or more depending on how far smoke traveled through your home’s older walls and crawlspace. Most jobs start with emergency board-up and soot containment within hours, not days. If you’re standing in a smoke-damaged house right now, call Wade at (855) 915-0646. He answers his own phone, and he’ll tell you straight what needs to happen next.

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San Anselmo isn’t like newer Marin towns where drywall comes down easy and studs dry fast. Nearly half the homes here predate 1940, with lath-and-plaster walls, pier-and-beam foundations, and original hardwoods that hold smoke differently than modern construction. You need someone who knows what hides behind a 1930s wall in this valley, not a crew from a call center in another state. That’s what we do.

Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is San Anselmo’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company

Wade Ferris started this company in 2007 and put his name on the truck. That’s not a slogan. His address is published, his license number is published, and when you call at 2 a.m., he picks up. People in San Anselmo have told us they’d rather trust a local who’ll run into them at the Fairfax Farmers Market than a national chain that won’t return calls after the check clears. We run on the oldest accountability mechanism there is: we live here too.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team handles everything from the first board-up to the final coat of paint. We’re IICRC-certified and RIA-affiliated, and we use equipment from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix, not rental-store junk. More importantly, we document everything: daily moisture readings, smoke-seal inspections, before and after photographs, and a written scope before any work starts. When your insurance adjuster has questions, Wade talks to them directly. You don’t relay information between two sides. That’s a big deal in San Anselmo, where floodplain designations and FEMA mandates can complicate a fire claim that started as smoke damage.

Every fire job in San Anselmo is backed by our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something’s not right, Wade makes it right. One call brings him back. No argument, no fine print.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in San Anselmo

Structural Fire Repair

Older San Anselmo homes need a different kind of structural fire repair than newer construction. Charring in a 1920s roof rafter or a fire-cut floor joist can’t just be patched over. We assess the full load path, remove compromised framing, and sister new material where code allows. On a Craftsman bungalow along Ross Avenue near downtown, our crew traced smoke infiltration from a kitchen fire through original lath-and-plaster walls and into the pier-and-beam foundation crawlspace. We removed charred framing, treated the smoke-damaged plaster with a chemical sponge, and deployed Dri-Eaz HEPA air scrubbers and Phoenix thermal foggers to neutralize odor before reconstruction. That’s the level of detail a pre-war home demands.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

San Anselmo’s creek-valley humidity is the enemy here. Smoke odor that would dissipate in a dry climate hangs around in this marine-layer air, especially inside lathe-and-plaster walls and under pier-and-beam subfloors. We don’t mask odor with spray deodorizers. We eliminate it at the source using thermal fogging, ozone treatment where appropriate, and full crawlspace sealing. If you don’t address the crawlspace, the smoke smell will wick back up through your hardwood floors in a month. We see it all the time in the flats near San Anselmo Creek.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Soot is corrosive. It etches glass, pits chrome, and in older Marin County homes, it attacks original cast-iron plumbing. We clean every surface that soot touched using chemical sponges and HEPA vacuums, not just the rooms where the fire happened. Smoke travels through wall cavities, and in a pre-1940 San Anselmo home, that means soot ends up in places you won’t see until it’s too late. We find it before it does permanent damage.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

When fire and smoke damage hits a San Anselmo home, the furniture, rugs, clothing, and heirlooms often hold more smoke than the structure itself. We offer full pack-out services: inventory, document, clean, and store your belongings in a secure facility while repairs happen on-site. That includes original Craftsman woodwork, which needs careful, non-abrasive cleaning, not a pressure washer and chemical bath. We treat the contents of your home the way we’d want ours treated.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Anselmo

We’re brand-agnostic when it comes to cleanup, but we use professional-grade gear: Dri-Eaz HEPA scrubbers, Phoenix thermal foggers and dehumidifiers, and B-Air air movers. When you call Wade’s Restoration for fire damage in San Anselmo, you get real equipment rated for this work, not a shop vac and a fan. We stock replacement smoke seals, soot sponges, and odor-neutralizing agents so we can start work without waiting on a parts shipment from Texas.

Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in San Anselmo Homes

• Hidden smoke damage behind lath-and-plaster surfaces. San Anselmo’s pre-war walls have air gaps and irregular framing that let smoke travel far from the fire itself. We’ve pulled intact wall surfaces only to find soot-blackened insulation twenty feet from the ignition point. If you don’t open those walls, that odor comes back in a month.
• Unsealed crawlspaces re-contaminating living spaces. Most San Anselmo homes sit on pier-and-beam foundations, which means smoke gets under the house. If the crawlspace isn’t sealed and treated after a fire, the odor bleeds up through the floor every time the heat kicks on. This is the number one call-back we get from homeowners who tried to handle it themselves.
• Corrosion acceleration on original cast-iron plumbing. Soot is acidic. On old cast-iron drain lines and supply pipes common in San Anselmo’s early-1900s homes, soot exposure accelerates pitting and rust. We include corrosion assessment on every fire job, because a water leak six months after a fire is a terrible surprise.
• FEMA floodplain complications on creek-corridor properties. If your fire happens in a home that’s been through San Anselmo’s repeated flood cycles, you may be in a FEMA-designated floodplain with substantial-damage rules. We pull the current flood map panel before scoping repairs, because the wrong repair trigger can force a mandatory elevation or demolition under Marin County’s floodplain ordinance. That’s a $100,000 mistake no one wants to discover mid-project.

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We Also Serve Cities Near San Anselmo

Our crews work throughout central Marin, including Fairfax, Kentfield, San Rafael, and Larkspur. If you’re in one of those communities, check out our San Anselmo page for local details, or call us directly. We’ll be there fast, no matter which side of the creek you’re on.

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