Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Santa Fe
Fire and smoke damage restoration in Santa Fe typically runs $2,800 to $7,500 for a moderate kitchen fire, with emergency board-up and tarping available same-day when you call (888) 534-8116. We’ve worked on ranch homes off FM 646, pier-and-beam houses near Avenue M, and plenty of acreage properties along the Mustang Bayou watershed. The faster smoke soot gets addressed, the less it sinks into drywall and framing, and the less you’ll spend on odor removal later. Wade Ferris answers his own phone, and he can have a crew in Santa Fe within the hour on most calls.
Why Wade’s Restoration of Houston Is Santa Fe’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
Wade’s Restoration has been doing fire and smoke work in Santa Fe long enough to know what the national franchises miss. A kitchen fire in a 1980s ranch on a two-acre lot isn’t the same job as a fire in a League City townhome. The houses here are older, the lots are bigger, and too many of them have been through Harvey. Wade’s crew understands all three.
We’re a locally owned, owner-operated outfit. Wade Ferris founded the company in 2007, publishes his address and license number, and answers his own phone at 2 a.m. when a Santa Fe homeowner calls after an electrical fire. The people who show up are background-checked, uniformed, and they carry professional-grade XPOWER air movers and B-Air units. Every fire and smoke job comes with the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. One call brings Wade back.
Ask anyone on your street. Santa Fe is a small enough town that people remember who actually showed up and did the work. Wade’s reputation here is built on documented moisture logs, direct adjuster communication, and the kind of accountability that only exists when the owner lives in the same county and expects to run into you at the hardware store.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Santa Fe
These are the services Santa Fe homeowners call us for most. You can reach us at (888) 534-8116 for any of them.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
After a fire, your home is exposed. Window openings, burned-out walls, roof damage, all of it is open to wind, rain, and whatever else Galveston County decides to throw at it. We board up and tarp same-day, and we build it to hold against the kind of wind-driven rain Santa Fe gets during Gulf storm events. We don’t staple a tarp and hope for the best. We secure it like it has to last, because it usually does.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Smoke doesn’t stay in the room that burned. It moves through wall cavities, gets pulled into HVAC returns, and settles as soot on every surface it touches. In Santa Fe’s older ranch homes with pier-and-beam foundations, it also drafts under the subfloor. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team cleans surfaces, pulls affected materials, and treats the framing so the smoke doesn’t come back as an odor problem six months later.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Sealing a smoke smell away doesn’t work. It has to be neutralized at the source. We use thermal fogging, ozone treatment where appropriate, and hydroxyl generation, and we do it after the soot is removed. On a manufactured home out on a Santa Fe acreage lot, the smell lives in the wall cavities and the fiber insulation under the floor, and that has to be pulled or treated. You can’t mask what’s still there.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
Fire and smoke damage most of what’s in the house, too, not just the house itself. Furniture, clothing, tools, the stuff in your closets and outbuildings. We document, inventory, pack out, and clean or store those contents while the structure work is happening. Every item gets photographed for your adjuster. Nothing gets thrown away without permission.
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 Service in Santa Fe
We run IICRC-standard equipment from Dri-Eaz, XPOWER, and B-Air on Santa Fe jobs, and our crew keeps the Injectidry floor-drying mats on the truck for the pier-and-beam situations that are common in 77510 and 77517. If your home has a split system, an older gas furnace, or a manufactured-home structure, the equipment and the approach are different, and we stock the parts to handle it. One trip, done right.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Santa Fe Homes
- Smoke trapped under pier-and-beam floors. A fire on one side of the house pulls smoke down through gaps in the subfloor. If the framing under there picked up moisture from a previous flood, the smoke odor binds to damp wood and won’t let go until that material is cut out or dried thoroughly.
- Restoring a structure that doesn’t meet post-Harvey FEMA elevation rules. After Harvey, FEMA redrew the flood maps and moved a lot of Santa Fe parcels into AE and AO zones. If a fire rebuild goes forward without checking the current LOMA and Base Flood Elevation, the finished work can get red-tagged by the county even if the fire inspection passes.
- Manufactured and owner-built homes without continuous waterproofing. Santa Fe has a higher share of these than most of Galveston County. When a fire strips open the walls and there’s no vapor barrier underneath, the next storm can saturate the same materials you just cleaned, and you’re tearing out fire-damaged work twice.
- Septic-tainted water under the house after a fire. Many Santa Fe properties on 77510 and 77517 are on private septic, not city sewer. If the fire department’s water or a flood event mixes with a septic backup, you get Category 3 contamination under a pier-and-beam house. That’s a completely different cleanup protocol than plain fire water.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Santa Fe, TX
Here’s what we typically see in Santa Fe:
- Emergency board-up and tarping: $350 to $1,200 depending on the size of the openings and the roof damage.
- Smoke and soot removal for a single-room fire: $1,200 to $3,800.
- Full-home odor removal and deodorization: $2,000 to $6,500, more if it’s a manufactured home with fiber insulation under the floor.
- Contents cleaning and pack-out: $1,500 to $5,000 depending on volume.
- Structural fire repair, including subfloor access on pier-and-beam homes: $4,000 to $15,000 or more.
The biggest cost driver in Santa Fe is what’s hiding under the house. If a fire exposed pier-and-beam framing that’s also holding moisture from Harvey or a septic backup, the labor and materials jump because you can’t just clean the surface. You’ve got to open the subfloor, dry or replace the framing, and sometimes bring the repair up to the current BFE. We give free estimates, and Wade writes the scope down before any work starts. No surprises at the door. Call (888) 534-8116.
We Also Serve Cities Near Santa Fe
If you’re outside Santa Fe proper, we handle fire and smoke damage restoration across this part of Galveston County, from Dickinson and Hitchcock down to La Marque and Alvin. Same crews, same equipment, same 90-Day Done Right Promise. Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Santa Fe is what we do most, but these nearby communities see the same Gulf storms and the same semi-rural housing stock, so the work is familiar.
Serving Santa Fe, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe
Yes, and we do it as a matter of routine now. The post-Harvey revisions moved a lot of 77510 and 77517 parcels into AE and AO flood zones, and if your fire rebuild doesn’t meet the current Base Flood Elevation, it can get red-tagged or denied insurance coverage even after the fire work passes inspection. If we’re touching structural elements, we verify the current LOMA status first. Call (888) 534-8116 and we’ll walk you through what your parcel shows.
Yes, and it usually does. Smoke pulls through gaps in the subfloor and saturates the framing and insulation underneath. If that framing picked up moisture during Harvey or from a septic backup, the odor bonds to the damp wood and won’t come out with surface cleaning. It’s one of the most common things we find on older Santa Fe ranch homes.
Yes, if it’s done properly. We don’t just cover openings, we secure the board-up to the framing with hurricane-rated fasteners and overlap the tarps so wind-driven rain can’t get underneath the edges. Santa Fe sits on the flat Gulf Coastal Plain, and storms here push rain sideways. A weak board-up fails fast. Ours holds until the permanent repair is scheduled.
It does. Manufactured homes and older owner-built structures on Santa Fe acreage often lack continuous waterproofing and vapor barriers, which means smoke odor gets trapped in the wall cavities and the under-floor insulation differently than in a slab-on-grade house. You often have to pull the bottom board insulation and treat the floor framing directly. Sealing the smell in without getting underneath the home won’t work.
Yes. If a flood or the fire response overwhelms a private septic system, you get Category 3 water, which contains sewage. When that water mixes with fire-damaged materials or sits under a pier-and-beam home, the remediation requirements get much stricter because you’re not dealing with clean water or even gray water. The wet framing has to be cut out or treated, and the smoke odor in that material becomes a secondary problem. This is the septic-plus-flood combination that defines restoration work in Santa Fe in a way it doesn’t in the sewered suburbs.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of Houston, serving Santa Fe since 2007.
If you’ve had a fire in Santa Fe, don’t wait for the smoke to set. Call (888) 534-8116 now. Wade answers his own phone. Estimates are free, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every fire and smoke job in writing.