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Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across San Francisco

Fire damage in San Francisco moves fast and so do we. Call (855) 915-0646 and Wade Ferris or one of his crew will be on the road to your neighborhood within the hour, day or night. We know the Tenderloin’s narrow alleys, the Mission’s tight Victorians, and Chinatown’s unreinforced masonry buildings because we work in them every week. When soot is spreading through shared wall cavities and your neighbors are asking questions, you need someone who already knows the building type and what it takes to stop the damage where it started.

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Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team handles everything from the first board-up to the final coat of paint, with honest written estimates and a 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job. We don’t hand you off to a call center and we don’t disappear after the check clears. Wade answers his own phone and he’ll be the one walking the site with you.

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

We’ve been restoring fire-damaged homes and apartments across San Francisco long enough to know that every block has its own set of problems. A three-story Victorian in Noe Valley doesn’t fail the same way a SoMa loft conversion does. A Chinatown residential hotel with unreinforced masonry and shared air shafts behaves completely differently under smoke pressure than a single-family home in the Sunset. Knowing the difference before we open a wall is what saves you money and keeps the damage from returning.

San Francisco is a city of attached buildings. When one unit burns, smoke and soot don’t stay put. They travel through shared attics, crawl spaces, plumbing chases, and the retrofit penetrations that hundreds of local buildings now have because of the city’s mandatory Unreinforced Masonry retrofit program. We see it constantly: a fire that looked contained to one unit turns out to have pushed soot into three or four adjacent dwellings through cavities nobody knew were connected. That’s why we don’t bid a fire job by looking at the burn room. We walk the entire building, inspect shared spaces, and document everything before we give you a number.

Wade’s crew is background-checked, uniformed, and IICRC-certified. We carry professional-grade equipment from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix, and we’re affiliated with both the RIA and IFA. But what matters more on a San Francisco fire job is that Wade Ferris has been doing this since 2007, he publishes his name and license number, and he’ll be the one making sure the job is done right. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing on every fire restoration contract. If it’s not done right, he makes it right.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in San Francisco

Fire Damage Cleanup

Fire cleanup in San Francisco means more than hauling out burned material. In older buildings with lath-and-plaster walls, water used to extinguish the fire saturates the plaster and the framing behind it, and that moisture hides. Thermal imaging doesn’t read reliably through lath and plaster, so we use invasive moisture probes and extended drying protocols that account for the city’s fog-damp baseline. We remove charred structural material, salvage what’s sound, and document every step with photos for your insurance adjuster. Wade deals with the adjuster directly, so you’re not the one stuck relaying information between two sides.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Soot in a San Francisco apartment building rarely stays in the fire unit. In attached Victorians and Edwardians, it migrates through shared attics and crawl spaces and through the new penetrations left by seismic retrofit work. We set up negative air containment, run HEPA air scrubbers, and clean every horizontal surface in affected units, not just the room where the fire started. We’ve worked in Tenderloin tenements where we cleaned seven neighboring units before the soot could set into finishes permanently. If you wait a week, that soot becomes a stain and a smell that lives in the building.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

Smoke odor in San Francisco’s older housing stock is a different animal than in a modern drywall house. Lath-and-plaster walls absorb smoke and hold it. Shared air shafts in residential hotels and prewar apartments recirculate odor even after the source unit is cleaned. We use hydroxyl generators from Dri-Eaz, thermal fogging, and targeted sealing of porous surfaces. We don’t mask odors; we remove the source and neutralize what’s left. In buildings with common hallways, we’ll treat shared spaces too, because the smell in the hallway is what every tenant complains about first.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

When a fire hits a San Francisco apartment, there’s rarely room to clean contents on site. We offer full pack-out services: we inventory, photograph, pack, and transport your salvageable belongings to our cleaning facility, clean and deodorize them, and store them until your unit is ready. We coordinate with your adjuster so the pack-out is covered under your contents coverage. Everything is documented, and you get a written scope before we move a single box.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Francisco

We run Dri-Eaz and Phoenix equipment on every fire job because San Francisco’s climate demands reliable drying and air scrubbing. Fog-damp air means slower evaporation, and slower evaporation means you need equipment that runs true for days at a time. We stock replacement filters, desiccant packs, and HEPA cartridges locally so we’re not waiting on a shipment from out of state when your job is active. Our techs are trained on these systems and we maintain our own equipment, so it’s always ready when you call.

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

• Smoke migrating through retrofit penetrations. San Francisco’s mandatory Unreinforced Masonry retrofit program has exposed framing and created new openings in hundreds of older buildings. Smoke and soot travel through those spaces into adjacent units and common areas. If you only clean the burn unit, the smell comes back and your neighbors stay miserable.
• Hidden moisture behind lath-and-plaster walls. Water from firefighting sinks into plaster and the framing behind it, and thermal imaging can’t reliably read through the material. Leftover moisture leads to mold, which no amount of odor treatment will fix. We probe invasively and dry longer than a typical fire job requires.
• Access problems that delay board-up and air scrubber placement. Narrow alleys, one-lane streets, and metered parking in neighborhoods like SoMa and North Beach make it hard to stage equipment. Delays let soot set into painted surfaces and textiles permanently. We plan for San Francisco access constraints before we arrive.
• Shared air shafts recirculating odor in older residential buildings. In prewar apartment buildings and residential hotels, the air shaft is a highway for smoke odor. Even after a unit is cleaned, the smell returns through the shaft. We treat shared spaces and mechanical systems, not just the fire unit.

Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in San Francisco, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near San Francisco

Wade’s Restoration covers all of San Francisco, from the Mission District and Noe Valley to Chinatown and Visitacion Valley. If you’re in one of those neighborhoods, you’re inside our county, which means no trip charge to come look. Call (855) 915-0646 and Wade heads out.

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