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Fast, Reliable Reconstruction & Cleanup Across Fresno

Reconstruction and cleanup in Fresno after water, fire, or smoke damage typically runs $1,800 to $14,000 depending on scope, with full room rebuilds starting around $6,500. Wade’s Restoration of California handles the whole thing from demo to final paint, and Wade Ferris himself answers the phone at (855) 915-0646, 24 hours a day. We work throughout Fresno, from the tower district to the acreage north of the San Joaquin River, and we know what happens to valley homes when a swamp cooler overflows or tule fog sits on a stucco wall for three straight weeks. If you’re standing in a wet hallway right now, call. We’ll be there.

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Key Takeaways:

• Full-service Reconstruction & Cleanup from demolition through paint, trim, and final walkthrough.
• Locally owned and owner-operated since 2007; Wade Ferris publishes his name, address, and license number and answers his own phone.
• Every reconstruction job is covered by the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
• We deal with your insurance adjuster directly, including photo documentation and moisture logs.
• No trip charge inside Fresno County, plus a permanent Senior & Veteran 10% discount.

Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is Fresno’s Preferred Reconstruction & Cleanup Company

Ask anyone on your street. Wade has been rebuilding, drying, and cleaning Fresno homes since 2007, and the work stands up. This isn’t a national chain where the estimator flies in from some regional office and never touches a hammer. Wade Ferris lives here, works here, and will run into you again at the hardware store. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is.

Fresno homeowners keep calling us back because of the documentation. On every water, fire, and mold job, Wade takes moisture readings every single day and hands you the full log at job’s end. Almost nobody in the trade does that, and it matters when your adjuster asks questions. It also matters when you want to know the slab is actually dry under that new flooring.

Calls are answered by a live person, 24/7. That includes Wade himself, who can have a crew heading toward your Fresno neighborhood inside the hour. We don’t use an answering service. You call, a person picks up.

The 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped in writing on every reconstruction contract. If it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. You have his cell number. You won’t need it, but you’ll have it.

Our Reconstruction & Cleanup Services in Fresno

Here’s what we do most often for homeowners across Fresno, ZIPs 93701 through 93714 and beyond.

Full-Service Reconstruction

We rebuild what fire, water, or mold destroyed. That means demolition, framing, insulation, drywall, paint, trim, cabinetry, and flooring. On a Fresno ranch home with a failed under-slab supply line, we coordinate the structural drying, then rebuild the slab repair, the flooring, and any baseboards so the whole thing reads as one job. You don’t have to hire a plumber, a drywaller, and a flooring crew separately. We run the whole scope.

Drywall & Flooring Repair

Fresno’s pre-1980s housing stock in central and southwest neighborhoods is mostly wood-frame stucco ranches and craftsman bungalows. When pinhole leaks in original galvanized supply lines saturate a wall cavity, we cut back to dry studs, dry the cavity, patch with 5/8-inch drywall, and match texture. The same goes for ceilings under swamp cooler overflows, which is one of the most common calls we get in the 93702 and 93710 ZIPs. If your ceiling has a soft spot near a hallway or bathroom, don’t wait.

Contents Restoration & Pack-Out

When a room has to be demoed, the contents have to go somewhere safe. We do pack-outs, and we do them carefully. Furniture, clothes, family photos, the whole thing gets inventoried and moved to a clean, dry space, then brought back when the rebuild is done. We document everything photographically, which your adjuster will want. In Fresno homes with original hardwood floors under water-damaged carpet, we handle the cleaning and restoration of both.

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

After the demolition dust settles, the carpet and furniture left behind still hold smoke soot, tule fog mustiness, and general construction grime. We run professional-grade extraction and air-scrubbing equipment from Dri-Eaz and B-Air to pull particulate out of upholstery and carpet fibers. For Fresno homes that sat through a Creek Fire smoke event, this step is the difference between a house that smells finished and one that still smells like a campfire every time the furnace kicks on.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fresno

We work on all makes and configurations of water heaters, swamp coolers, supply lines, and HVAC-related leaks. Our crews are IICRC-certified and RIA-affiliated, and we run professional-grade drying and air-scrubbing equipment from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, and XPOWER. For Fresno customers, that matters because it means we stock the gear and parts needed to start mitigation the same day, not tomorrow. Wade Ferris does not do callbacks because a float valve re-stuck two weeks later. We inspect the cooler pan and water line before we ever pull moisture readings on a ceiling claim.

Common Reconstruction & Cleanup Problems We See in Fresno Homes

Fresno sits at the base of the Sierra Nevada where wildfire smoke from foothills fires, including the 2020 Creek Fire, funnels into the valley and gets locked in by the region’s notorious thermal inversions. That makes soot infiltration and smoke odor remediation a recurring need even for homes miles from any flame. Simultaneously, the valley’s signature tule fog drives weeks of near-saturating exterior humidity into the same aging stucco housing stock that relies on evaporative coolers, creating a hidden mold-and-moisture cycle that blindsides homeowners who think of Fresno as a purely dry climate. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Swamp cooler overflows. On pre-1980s Fresno homes, rooftop evaporative coolers are common. When a float valve sticks open at the end of a long summer, water can pour silently into attic insulation and ceiling joists for days before anyone notices. We check the cooler pan and water line on every ceiling claim because restorers who skip that step get called back weeks later after the valve sticks again and re-wets the new drywall.
• Tule fog mold inside wall cavities. Winter humidity near saturation pushes moisture into poorly-sealed stucco envelopes while forced-air heating desiccates interiors. That stresses seals and concentrates condensation inside wall and ceiling cavities. We routinely find hidden mold inside Fresno wall cavities before any visible ceiling stain appears. It’s a pattern that would surprise a contractor from nearby Clovis where newer homes have tighter building envelopes.
• Under-slab supply line failures. Slab-on-grade construction is the norm valley-wide. When a supply line under the slab fails, there’s often no visible water on the floor. Instead, moisture migrates into the stem walls and wicks up into baseboards. Crews who treat every Fresno slab leak as a simple flooring job leave hidden wicking that buckles new baseboards within a season. We use specialized structural drying, not just a pulled-up subfloor.
• Smoke soot bonded to fresh paint. Post-construction cleaning crews who don’t account for tule fog dust and soot bonded to fresh paint end up burnishing stains into new drywall with dry towels before the job is even signed off. We account for it. We clean with the right chemistry for Fresno’s particular particulate mix: soot from valley inversions, agricultural dust, and highway exhaust that settles into every surface during a remodel.

Here’s one specific example from our work in Fresno. On a slab-on-grade ranch off Calaveras Street in the 93702 ZIP, our crew arrived for a ceiling loss caused by an attic swamp cooler float valve that had stuck open and saturated the insulation and top chords of two ceiling joists. We pulled the original fiberglass batts, set Dri-Eaz LGR dehumidifiers and Phoenix axial air movers inside the attic for structural drying, then replaced the joist section, rehung 5/8-inch drywall, and coordinated a pack-out for the contents below before the owner even filed the insurance documentation. That’s the job done in one trip, with no callback.

Pricing for Reconstruction & Cleanup in Fresno, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Fresno

From our Fresno office, Wade’s Restoration of California serves the whole Central Valley including Fresno, Old Fig Garden, Clovis, Fowler, and Sanger. If you’re on the edge of the county and need a crew, call us. Wade will tell you straight whether it’s a job for today or one we’ll scope and schedule like a proper remodel. Reconstruction is never rushed, but it is never left waiting.

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