Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Tomball
Fire and smoke damage restoration in Tomball typically runs $1,200 to $8,400 depending on square footage, how far soot traveled, and whether structural materials like OSB sheathing need replacement. Most jobs in the 77375 and 77377 zips can be scoped within 24 hours, and our crews are already on the road to Tomball when you call. Wade Ferris answers his own phone at (888) 534-8116, and he will be the one telling you what happens next, not a call center.
We have worked enough fires in Tomball to know the difference between a 1970s ranch near the historic townsite and a 2012 stucco-over-OSB tract home off Hufsmith-Kohrville Road. They burn differently, they hold smoke differently, and they need different cleanup approaches. That local knowledge is what keeps a contained kitchen fire from turning into a whole-house odor problem that follows you for years.
Why Wade’s Restoration of Houston Is Tomball’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
Ask anyone on your street. Wade Ferris has been showing up to fires, floods, and mold jobs in Tomball since 2007, and his name is on every truck, every contract, and every moisture log he hands over at the end of a job. He publishes his address and license number. He lives with the work. When he tells you he will be there himself, he means it.
Homeowners in Tomball call us because they want a real person who remembers their street, their subdivision, and what happened to their neighbor’s house two doors down. We do not rotate through anonymous crews from a regional office. The people Wade sends are background-checked, uniformed, and trained on the same equipment we have used for nearly two decades: Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, XPOWER, B-Air, and Injectidry. Our standing is IICRC-certified and RIA-affiliated.
Response time to Tomball is measured in hours, not days. Our Houston dispatch coordinates crews that serve Tomball locally, so when a kitchen fire hits a home in the 77377 corridor on a Tuesday night, we can have a board-up crew and an air scrubber running before sunrise. That is the difference between cleaning soot and replacing drywall.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Tomball
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration is the umbrella over everything we do after a fire. In Tomball, the work usually breaks into four phases, and we handle all of them with our own crew and equipment.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot is acidic. Left on surfaces for more than a few days, it etches glass, corrodes metal fixtures, and permanently stains painted drywall. In Tomball’s newer tract homes, soot also gets pulled into HVAC returns with undersized duct runs, which means bedrooms on the far side of the house can re-contaminate within weeks if the ductwork is not cleaned before the first cooling cycle. We clean the ducts before we clean the rooms.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Odor removal in Tomball is not a spray-and-pray job. Smoke odor lives in wall cavities, behind stucco veneer, inside OSB sheathing, and in the insulation above your ceiling. We use thermal fogging, hydroxyl generators, and odor-blocking primers to seal what we cannot remove. In the 77377 zip, where OSB sheathing wicks smoke far faster than older pier-and-beam framing, we often open the wall cavities and treat them directly rather than masking the smell with deodorizers that fail by the next humid spring.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
When a Tomball kitchen fire fills the house with smoke, everything porous absorbs it: upholstered furniture, bedding, clothing, books, even the kids’ stuffed animals. We pack out salvageable contents, clean and deodorize them off-site, and return them with a written inventory. If something is not worth saving, we document it for your adjuster. You are not left guessing what got thrown away.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
After the fire department leaves, your home is open to weather, animals, and anyone who happens to walk past. Tomball gets over 50 inches of rain a year, and a broken window or burned roof section becomes a water entry point fast. We board up openings, tarp the roof, and seal weep holes on brick veneer so fire-dried wall cavities do not absorb rainy-season moisture that turns into mold misdiagnosed as lingering smoke odor.
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 Tomball
We service and install equipment from the brands Tomball homeowners actually have in their homes. That includes B-Air air movers and scrubbers, XPOWER axial fans and dehumidifiers, and Injectidry systems for pulling moisture and smoke residue from wall cavities and hard-to-reach cavities. We keep common parts stocked for these units, which means a faster turnaround when your cleanup hinges on a working air scrubber. No waiting on a backordered filter from a warehouse in another state.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Tomball Homes
- Smoke-damaged OSB sheathing hiding behind stucco veneer. Fast-built 2000s and 2010s tract homes in 77377 used OSB panels behind a thin stucco skin. After a grease fire, those panels wick smoke deep into the wall assembly. Contractors who only clean the surface leave charred-but-hidden structural panels that off-gas odors every humid spring. We open the wall, inspect the sheathing, and replace what is compromised.
- Soot in HVAC returns re-contaminating bedrooms. Newer Tomball homes often have undersized duct runs that pull smoke-laden air into every room during a fire. If the ducts are not cleaned before the AC kicks on, bedrooms smell like smoke for months. We clean ductwork as part of every fire job in Tomball, not as an add-on.
- Board-up crews skipping weep hole sealing. Brick veneer homes need weep holes to breathe, but after a fire those same holes let rainwater into fire-dried wall cavities. A board-up crew that slaps plywood over windows and leaves weep holes open is setting you up for mold that gets misdiagnosed as smoke odor. We seal weep holes as part of our board-up protocol.
- Incomplete Harvey remediations surfacing years later. Tomball sits in the upper Cypress Creek watershed, and Hurricane Harvey’s 40 to 50-inch rainfall totals in August 2017 flooded homes across 77375 and 77377. Many of those remediations were done fast and cheap. When a fire hits a home with hidden pocket moisture behind the baseboards from an old Harvey job, we find it because we map smoke paths and check for moisture at the floor line. A general contractor will not do that.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Tomball, TX
- Smoke and soot removal only (single room, no structural damage): $1,200-$2,800
- Whole-house smoke and soot cleanup (1,800-2,600 sq ft): $3,500-$7,200
- Odor removal with thermal fogging and cavity treatment: $900-$2,400 depending on wall assembly type
- Contents cleaning and pack-out (full house): $2,000-$5,500
- Emergency board-up and tarping: $450-$1,200 depending on openings and roof area
- Structural fire repair (OSB replacement, framing, drywall): $4,000-$14,000+
What drives the price in Tomball specifically is the wall assembly. A 1970s pier-and-beam home near the historic townsite cleans up faster and cheaper than a 2012 stucco-over-OSB tract home where smoke traveled through the sheathing joints into adjacent rooms. The newer the home, the more hidden the damage tends to be. Call (888) 534-8116 for a free estimate. Wade will walk the house with you, explain what he sees, and put the scope in writing before any work starts.
We Also Serve Cities Near Tomball
Beyond Tomball, our crews regularly work in Cypress, The Woodlands, Jersey Village, and Spring. If you are in one of those communities and dealing with smoke or fire damage, the same Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Tomball team that serves this area can be at your door. Same owner, same equipment, same written scope before work starts.
Serving Tomball, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tomball 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 Tomball
Our 2010 home in 77377 had a garage fire that filled the attic with smoke. How long before mold forms in the stucco-over-OSB walls if we wait on odor removal?
In Tomball’s humid subtropical climate, where indoor humidity rarely dips below 65% without active HVAC, mold can begin colonizing damp or fire-dried wall cavities within 48 to 72 hours if moisture is present. Smoke odor itself does not cause mold, but the water used to fight the fire and any fire-dried materials that later absorb humid air do. If your stucco-over-OSB walls got wet, do not wait. Call (888) 534-8116 and we will take moisture readings and tell you what needs to dry.
We bought a Tomball house with a disclosed but “remediated” kitchen fire. The previous owner used a general contractor. Can you tell if the smoke cleanup was incomplete?
Yes. We find incomplete remediations all the time in Tomball, especially in fast-built 2000s and 2010s tracts where a general contractor cleaned the visible soot but never opened the wall cavities behind the stucco. We inspect behind baseboards, inside HVAC returns, and at wall-floor joints where the expansive black clay soil has shifted the slab and opened crack pathways. If smoke residue or charred OSB is still there, we document it and give you a written scope.
Does Wade’s Restoration of Houston work with insurance on fire claims for homes in 77375 and 77377, even if the homeowner skipped flood insurance after Harvey?
We work with your adjuster directly on fire claims regardless of your flood insurance status. Fire damage is typically covered under standard homeowners policies, and we document everything with photos, moisture readings, and written scopes so your adjuster has what they need. If you are paying out of pocket because of a Harvey-era coverage gap, we will talk through payment options and give you the same upfront scope transparency we give every Tomball homeowner.
Will your fire cleanup crew seal my Tomball home properly against rain during the repairs?
Yes. Board-up and tarping is part of our fire restoration process, not an afterthought. We seal windows, doors, roof penetrations, and weep holes on brick veneer. Tomball gets over 50 inches of rain a year with peak events in spring and fall, and a fire-dried wall cavity that absorbs rainwater becomes a mold problem within days. We treat weather sealing as seriously as the smoke cleanup itself.
The smoke smell from our garage fire keeps coming back every time the AC runs. Is this a Tomball slab-home issue?
Yes, and it is common in newer slab-on-grade homes across 77375 and 77377. Soot gets pulled into the HVAC returns during the fire, and if the ductwork is not cleaned before the first cooling cycle, the system redistributes smoke particles through the house every time it runs. The fix is duct cleaning plus cavity treatment in the walls where smoke traveled. Masking the smell with deodorizer will not work. Call (888) 534-8116 and Wade will tell you what is actually happening in your ducts.
Call Wade’s Restoration of Houston for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Tomball
When a fire hits your Tomball home, you need someone who knows the difference between a 1970s ranch near the train depot and a 2015 tract home off Boudreaux Road. You need someone who will answer the phone at midnight, show up with the right equipment, and put the scope in writing before any work starts. That is Wade Ferris. Call (888) 534-8116 now for a free estimate. No trip charge inside the county. Senior and veteran discounts always apply. And if it is not done right, Wade will make it right, in writing. That is the 90-Day Done Right Promise, and it is stamped on every fire restoration contract we sign in Tomball.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of Houston, serving Tomball and surrounding communities since 2007.