Reconstruction & Cleanup in Houston - One Crew From Dry-Out to Rebuild

Fast, Reliable Reconstruction & Cleanup Across Houston

If your home took on water from Brays Bayou or you’re looking at wind damage after a storm rolled through, reconstruction and cleanup in Houston isn’t a weekend project, it’s a race against the city’s humidity. Mold starts colonizing wet drywall and subfloor within 24 to 48 hours here, not the week you’d get in Phoenix or Dallas. Wade Ferris runs Reconstruction & Cleanup crews that know Houston’s housing stock, its bayou flood patterns, and how to document everything for your adjuster. Call (888) 534-8116 and you’ll get a live person, usually Wade himself, who can tell you straight what you’re dealing with.

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

Wade Ferris has been in this trade since 2007, and he runs things the way Houston homeowners want: name on the truck, published address, and a face you’ll see again at the hardware store. Around Highland Village, Houston Heights, and Magnolia Park, his reputation is built on showing up when he says he will and not padding the scope once the drywall’s open. Houston customers call because they’ve been burned by national outfits that quote one number on the phone and another at the door. Wade hands you a written scope before work starts, and every water, fire, and mold job carries his 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, he makes it right.

Response time matters here. When a storm comes through and a bayou overflows, the calls start coming at two in the morning. Wade answers his own phone. His crews can be in Houston Heights, the 77007 corridor, or over in Galena Park within the hour, extraction equipment running. He takes moisture readings every single day and hands you the full log at the end, which almost nobody else in this trade does. That log is also what gets your insurance claim moving, because Wade deals with the adjuster directly. You’re not stuck relaying messages between two parties who never seem to talk to each other.

Our Reconstruction & Cleanup Services in Houston

Here’s the work we actually do in Houston, not a vague list of “solutions.” Each of these gets scoped, priced in writing, and scheduled like a real construction job, because that’s what it is.

Full-Service Reconstruction

After a flood or fire, you need someone who can take a gutted room back to finished. We handle framing repairs, insulation replacement, drywall hanging and finishing, trim, paint, and flooring. In Houston Heights, where early-1900s pier-and-beam bungalows dominate, we look carefully at what happened below the floor before we ever hang new sheetrock. A Harvey-era crawl space that was never fully dried will rot out a new subfloor within a season. We document all of it, because your adjuster needs to see the moisture log, not just a photo of the drywall we cut out.

Drywall & Flooring Repair

Houston’s 85 to 90 percent summer humidity means wet building materials don’t just dry on their own. Drywall that got soaked from a Brays Bayou overflow in a 1940s brick-veneer home in Magnolia Park wicks water invisibly into unreinforced CMU cavities. We pull moisture readings, open the wall where the numbers say to, and dry the cavity properly with Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and Injectidry panels before anything gets rebuilt. Flooring is the same story: original heart-pine subfloors in the Heights hold water for weeks, and laying new flooring over saturated joists is how you get cupping and rot within a year. We don’t do that. We dry first, then rebuild.

Contents Restoration & Pack-Out

When a flood or fire hits, your furniture, clothes, and paperwork need somewhere to go while the structure gets rebuilt. We pack out contents, document everything with photos, clean what’s salvageable, and store it until reconstruction is done. For Houston homeowners near the 77030 Medical Center corridor, this often means coordinating with insurers who need itemized lists for claims. We handle that paperwork and photo documentation so you’re not the one building a spreadsheet at midnight. Senior and veteran customers get 10 percent off, always.

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

Not every water event means total replacement. If carpet got wet from a localized leak and dried within the safe window, professional cleaning can save it. Our crews use professional-grade B-Air air movers and Dri-Eaz equipment to dry and clean carpet and upholstery, then treat for odor and mold spores. If the water sat too long or came from the bayou, we’ll tell you straight that replacement is the better call. Wade won’t clean carpet that should be torn out just to bill a few extra hundred dollars. He’s going to run into you again on a Saturday.

Trusted Brands We Service in Houston

We don’t chase every brand’s warranty work. We focus on the equipment and materials we trust, and for Houston homeowners that means Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying equipment, Injectidry panels for hard-to-reach cavities, XPOWER air movers, and B-Air filtration. Our crews run IICRC-certified methods and RIA-affiliated practices, which is the industry’s highest standard. You get the benefit of professional-grade equipment that actually pulls moisture out of a Houston crawl space, not the rental-grade gear that just moves wet air around. Stocking common parts for Houston’s older housing stock means less waiting when a Heights bungalow needs something matched to its original construction.

Common Reconstruction & Cleanup Problems We See in Houston Homes

Here’s what we keep finding in Houston, and it’s specific to this city’s geography and housing. These aren’t generic bullet points you’d see on a Phoenix page:

• Hidden Harvey-era mold in Heights crawl spaces. Early-1900s pier-and-beam homes in the 77007 corridor often got cosmetic repairs after the 2017 storm, but the crawl space never fully dried. Water migrated up through original heart-pine subfloors and left Aspergillus colonies behind finish flooring. Owners only find out when air sampling comes back positive years later. We open the floor and deal with what’s actually underneath, not what a fresh coat of paint hides.
• Water wicked into brick-veneer cavity walls in Magnolia Park. Homes near Brays Bayou from the 1940s through 1960s are often brick veneer over CMU. Water enters the cavity and sits there, invisible until baseboard paint bubbles or drywall bulges. By then the damage is deeper than it looks. We dry the cavity itself, not just the drywall face, before rebuilding.
• Rotted subfloors under cosmetic fixes after bayou overflows. When Buffalo Bayou or White Oak Bayou overflows, standing water gets into pier-and-beam crawl spaces and stays there for weeks. Some contractors lay new flooring right over saturated joists because it looks fine from above. A season later the floors cup and the smell returns. We pull moisture readings in the crawl space before we ever install flooring.
• Non-wind-rated doors in a hurricane zone. Houston sits in a coastal wind-load region, and replacement doors must be wind-rated. We see contractors install cheap, visually identical doors that pass a quick look but fail when a storm’s pressure differential hits. A door that blows in during a tropical system turns a minor repair into a full gut-out. We install doors rated for Houston’s wind codes, and we document the rating for your records and your insurer.

Pricing for Reconstruction & Cleanup in Houston, TX

We Also Serve Cities Near Houston

Our Houston crews cover the whole metro. We’re regularly in Bellaire, West University Place, Galena Park, and Jacinto City, and we treat those jobs the same way we treat one across the street from our Houston office: same equipment, same written scope, same live person answering the phone. If you’re in one of those cities or anywhere nearby, call (888) 534-8116 and Wade heads out.

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