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Fire damage in San Dimas rarely stops at the flames. A kitchen fire off Bonita Avenue or a hillside burn above town sends smoke through drywall, ducts, and insulation, and if the fire touched the foothills, the first winter storm will push mud and ash right behind it. Wade’s Restoration has handled the full sequence here enough times to know what comes next, and we get moving before the second round of damage starts. If you’re standing in a smoke-filled house right now, call (855) 915-0646. Wade Ferris answers his own phone, and he’ll be on the road to San Dimas the same night.

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

We’re not a franchise with a call center in another state. Wade’s Restoration is owner-operated, and Wade Ferris’s name is on the truck, the contract, and the published license. Ask anyone on your street near San Dimas Wash or over by the 210 side. They’ll tell you the same thing: Wade shows up, tells you straight what needs doing, and puts it in writing before work starts. Since 2007, we’ve worked the foothill neighborhoods from Charter Oak to Glendora, and we know the 91773 housing stock better than any crew driving in from the flatlands.

Every fire, smoke, and mold job we take carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right. In writing. No fine print, no phone menu. You call, Wade comes back. That’s how a locally owned company survives 29 years in this valley, and it’s why we still answer the phone at 2 a.m. when a San Dimas homeowner smells smoke in the walls.

We’re IICRC-certified and RIA-affiliated. The people we send to your door are background-checked, uniformed, and trained on professional-grade equipment from Dri-Eaz and Injectidry, not rental-store blowers. And Wade deals with your insurance adjuster directly, so you’re not the one relaying information between two sides at the worst time possible.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in San Dimas

Here’s the part of Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration that matters most in San Dimas: no two fires here look the same by the time we arrive. A stove fire in a 1960s ranch off Bonita Avenue has different smoke patterns than an ember-driven attic burn near the foothills. We treat each one for what it is. These are the services San Dimas homeowners call us for most.

Fire Damage Cleanup

After the fire’s out, the mess isn’t just char. It’s soot pressed into painted walls, water pooled under warped hardwood, and the smell of burned plastic that lives in the HVAC. Our crew removes compromised materials, extracts standing water, and stabilizes the structure before anything else. In older San Dimas homes with original plaster and 1950s drywall, we’re careful to salvage what can be saved, because matching those older textures isn’t easy.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Smoke and soot from a small kitchen fire can reach every room in a San Dimas ranch home in under an hour, especially during Santa Ana wind season when interior air gets pulled toward the canyons. We use HEPA air scrubbers and dry-sponge techniques on walls, ceilings, and trim, and we don’t paint over soot to hide it. If it’s not removed, it returns through the paint, and the odor comes back with it.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

This is where cheap work shows up. You can mask smoke odor with sprays, but a San Dimas summer will bake it back out of the drywall by August. We use thermal fogging, ozone where appropriate, and hydroxyl generators to break down the odor molecules themselves. For homes near the San Dimas Wash that also sustained mud intrusion, we treat the crawl space too, because that’s where the musty, burned smell likes to hide.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

Furniture, clothing, cookware, photo albums. If it survived the fire, it likely got coated in soot. We inventory, pack out, and clean contents at our facility, then store them until the home is ready. Wade hands you a photo log of everything taken, and nothing leaves your house without a signed inventory sheet. That kind of documentation also makes the adjuster’s job easier, which moves your claim along faster.

Emergency Board-Up & Tarping

This is the first call we make first. A fire-damaged home in San Dimas can’t sit open. Between the foothill wind and the winter rain that follows every burn season, an unsecured roof or broken window becomes a second disaster. Board-up and tarping happen same day, usually within hours of your call. We’ll leave a documented scope of what was secured and what comes next.

Structural Fire Repair

Once the mitigation is done, the rebuild starts. Framing, drywall, flooring, roofing, electrical. We coordinate directly with your insurance, and the same crew that did the emergency board-up in San Dimas is the crew that handles the structural work inside. No parade of subcontractors from outside the county. And the 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every piece of it, from the first tarp to the final coat of paint.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Dimas

We stock and work with equipment from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, and XPOWER, because those are the machines that hold up when you’re running air scrubbers around the clock in a smoke-damaged San Dimas house. IICRC protocols guide our work, and we maintain RIA and IFA affiliations to stay current on the standards that matter for foothill fire restoration. When parts or specialized tools are needed, we have them on the truck or sourced locally fast, because we’re not waiting on a shipment from a national warehouse across the country.

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

• Late board-up after a foothill fire. The embers may be out, but the wind isn’t done. An open eave or cracked window lets smoke linger and invites the next Santa Ana event to blow debris inside, compounding the damage.
• Mud intrusion in garages and crawl spaces near the San Dimas Wash. Standard fire restoration doesn’t account for sediment. Homeowners near the canyon mouths get sludge under the house after the first heavy rain, and it rots framing if it sits.
• Hidden water damage behind original walls. Firefighting water travels down into 1950s and 1960s wall cavities. Legacy galvanized supply lines, already stressed by the valley’s hard water, often leak during suppression, and you won’t see it until the drywall bulges or the baseboard stains.
• Smoke odor baked into older HVAC systems. Ranch homes in San Dimas often have ductwork that’s 40 or 50 years old. Smoke gets pulled through the returns and coats the inside, and unless the ducts are cleaned or replaced, the smell returns every time the heat kicks on.

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We Also Serve Cities Near San Dimas

Our crews work regularly in San Dimas and the surrounding foothill and valley communities. If you’re in Charter Oak, La Verne, Pomona, or Glendora and dealing with fire, smoke, or post-fire mud damage, the same owner-operated team that serves San Dimas can be at your door fast.

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