Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Marietta
Fire damage in Marietta moves fast, and so do we. A typical smoke and soot cleanup in a Marietta home runs $2,800-$6,500 depending on square footage and how far the soot traveled, and the sooner we start, the more of your belongings we save. Wade Ferris answers his own phone at (888) 690-3757, and he can have a crew at your door in Marietta within the hour most days. We know the difference between a 1960s ranch in 30060 and a 1990s East Cobb build in 30062, and we treat each one accordingly.
Why Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta Is Marietta’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
We’re not a franchise with a call center in another state. Wade Ferris founded this company in 2007, and his name is on every truck that pulls up in Marietta. When you call, you get Wade or someone on his crew who knows exactly which Marietta neighborhoods have crawl spaces, which have slab foundations, and which have the balloon framing that makes smoke travel in ways nobody expects. That local knowledge changes how we scope a job from the first hour.
Marietta homeowners tell us the same thing over and over: they tried a national outfit once, got burned, and now they want someone whose face they’ll see at the Marietta Square farmers market. That’s how we work. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team has handled everything from small kitchen fires in 30008 to whole-structure smoke damage in 30061, and every single job comes with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something’s not right after we leave, one call brings Wade back. No runaround, no ticket number, no waiting on hold.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Marietta
Fire Damage Cleanup
We start with the mess the fire left behind: charred drywall, soaked carpet, melted vinyl flooring, and the layer of ash that gets into everything. In Marietta’s older 30060 and 30008 homes, that ash almost always finds its way into crawl spaces and original ductwork, so we check those areas even when the fire was contained to one room. Our crew uses professional-grade air scrubbers and HEPA vacuums from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix to pull particulate out of the air while we clear debris. You’ll get a written scope of work before we touch anything, so you know exactly what’s coming out and what’s staying.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot is acidic and it keeps eating surfaces long after the fire’s out. In a Marietta brick ranch, soot settles into every porous surface, from drywall to wood trim to the grout lines in tile. We use dry-chem sponges for the first pass, then HEPA wet wiping and air scrubbing to catch what the sponges miss. In mid-century homes around Canton Road and Whitlock Avenue, we routinely find soot behind outlet covers and inside light fixtures, which tells us it’s also in the walls. That’s when the real work begins.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
This is the service Marietta homeowners need most after a fire, and it’s the one most often done wrong. A kitchen fire in a 1950s ranch off Cherokee Street can leave smoke odor in the crawl space, the attic insulation, and the ductwork. Thermal fogging alone won’t touch it; the soot re-emits from wall cavities for months. We run hydroxyl generators indoors, fog the crawl space separately, and treat the HVAC system with a full duct cleaning and deodorization. When your house is a balloon-framed 1960s build, the smoke traveled through the stud bays, so we treat those cavities with a fogging agent before we seal anything up. We also use XPOWER air movers to pressurize the space and push the odor out rather than let it settle back into the paint.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
Your clothes, linens, books, and furniture absorb smoke too. We document everything, pack out what can be cleaned, and treat it at our facility with ozone and hydroxyl chambers. What can’t be saved, we inventory so your adjuster can see it. In Marietta homes with cedar-lined closets or original hardwood built-ins in the 30062 area, we clean on site when possible because those materials don’t respond well to aggressive off-site treatment. Everything is photo-documented before and after, and your insurance adjuster gets the file directly. You never play middleman.
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.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Marietta Homes
- Crawl space mold after a contained fire. Marietta’s red clay holds water for days after any rain, and a fire in a 30060 ranch often drives moisture into the subfloor where smoke has already made the wood porous. We find mold colonies in the crawl space within 72 hours of the fire department’s departure, and we treat that as part of the same job, not an add-on.
- Soot re-emitting from balloon-frame wall cavities. Homes built in the 1940s through 1960s around Marietta Square and the 30008 corridor have empty stud bays that act as chimneys during a fire. Smoke travels up and sideways, then seeps back out for months. Most restoration crews miss this entirely.
- Ember entry and smoldering pockets in East Cobb attics. When a thunderstorm knocks a loblolly pine branch onto a roof in 30062, the damage isn’t just the hole. Pine needles and dried shake debris in the attic can smolder for days after the fire’s out. We inspect for ember entry before we tarp and board up, so the next storm doesn’t reignite the whole attic.
- Smoke-porous subfloor in mid-century ranches. In homes without a poly vapor barrier, smoke gets pulled down into the subfloor by the same moisture gradient that makes the crawl space damp. We run thermal imaging on every fire job in 30060 and 30008 to find exactly where the smoke went, not just where the flames were.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Marietta, GA
| Service | Marietta Market Price Range |
|---|---|
| Smoke & soot removal (single room) | $800 - $1,800 |
| Full interior smoke cleanup (1,500-2,500 sq ft) | $2,800 - $6,500 |
| Odor removal & deodorization (interior + ducts) | $1,200 - $3,200 |
| Contents pack-out, cleaning, and storage | $1,500 - $5,000+ |
| Emergency board-up & tarping | $400 - $900 |
| Crawl space mold remediation (post-fire) | $2,000 - $7,000 |
What moves the number: how far the soot traveled, whether the ductwork needs full treatment, and whether that red Georgia clay under your crawl space has already seeded mold. We give you a written line-item estimate before any work starts, and we honor the price unless the scope changes with your sign-off. No trip charge inside Cobb County. Seniors and veterans always get 10% off. Call (888) 690-3757 for a free, no-pressure estimate.
Marietta’s Red Clay and Pine Canopy: Why Fire Restoration Here Is Different
Every city has fires. Marietta has fires plus a geography problem. The red clay that runs under most of the city holds moisture against crawl spaces and foundation walls for days after any rain, and that moisture is exactly what mold needs to bloom in a smoke-damaged subfloor. Our techs in 30060 and 30008 routinely find mold colonies that started before the fire department left, because the smoke made the floor joists porous and the damp clay did the rest. A fire in a Kennesaw or Smyrna home built on a sealed slab doesn’t create that same compounding damage. Add in the loblolly pine canopy across East Cobb, where a single thunderstorm can put a branch through a roof and into the attic, and you’ve got a restoration market with two parallel risk profiles: older crawl-space homes on the west side, newer slab homes on the east side, and very different mold and smoke behavior between them.
We rolled out to a 1962 ranch off Canton Road in 30060 after a dryer fire in the laundry room. The fire itself was small, containment was quick, but the whole house reeked of smoke. Our thermal imaging showed the smoke push had driven moisture into the floor joists above the crawl space, and because the original construction had no vapor barrier and the red clay was still wet from last week’s storm, a mold colony was already forming on the subfloor under the kitchen. We ran three Dri-Eaz LGR dehumidifiers in the crawl, fogged the entire interior with a hydroxyl generator for the odor, and packed out the linen and coat closets for ozone treatment at our facility. The homeowner got their house back without a lingering smoke smell and without a crawl space mold problem six weeks later. That’s the kind of thing you only learn by doing this work in Marietta.
Trusted Brands We Use in Marietta
We don’t cut corners on equipment. The job in your Marietta home gets Dri-Eaz and Phoenix dehumidifiers, air scrubbers, and thermal imaging cameras. We stock XPOWER air movers for odor pressurization, and our extraction and drying equipment is the same professional-grade gear used by the biggest restoration firms in the country. That matters when you’re dealing with a mid-century crawl space off Powder Springs Road or a 1990s East Cobb basement that’s never dried out properly. We bring the right tools, not whatever’s in the back of a pickup.
We Also Serve Cities Near Marietta
We work throughout Marietta and the surrounding area every day, including Fair Oaks, Smyrna, Vinings, and Kennesaw. If you’re on the edge of the county line and not sure whether you’re in our service area, call (888) 690-3757 and ask. Chances are we’ve been on your street before.
Serving Marietta, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Marietta 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 Marietta
Smoke odor settles in a crawl space because homes from the 1950s and 1960s in 30060 and 30008 almost never have a moisture barrier between the floor joists and the red clay below. The smoke gets pulled down through the subfloor by moisture in the crawl space, and once the porous wood absorbs it, the odor keeps re-emitting for months. We treat the crawl space as part of every fire job in these older Marietta neighborhoods, not as an afterthought. Call (888) 690-3757 and we’ll tell you exactly what we’d do in your house.
Depends on how far the smoke traveled and what your walls are made of. Mid-century East Cobb homes in 30062 often have plaster walls and original built-ins that hold smoke more stubbornly than drywall. Soft goods like clothing, linens, and upholstery almost always need off-site ozone treatment because smoke odor embeds in the fabric fibers permanently if it sits. Hard surfaces can often be cleaned on site. We’ll give you a room-by-room list of what we recommend packing out and why before we start.
We don’t guess. We run a borescope camera through the ducts to see where the soot actually settled, then we clean and deodorize every run that shows contamination. In a brick ranch with original galvanized ducts from the 1960s, soot gets trapped at every joint and seam, so a simple filter change never works. We treat the ducts with an anti-microbial fogging after the mechanical cleaning and leave you the before-and-after photos.
Freezing rain in Marietta is a real liability, especially after an ice event like the one we saw in January 2014. If a space heater fire started in a 30008 or 30060 home and the fire department’s water put it out, you now have water in the same structure where the smoke was. In those homes, that water ends up in the crawl space on top of red clay that doesn’t drain, and the mold window shrinks fast. We treat a fire job with freeze-induced water damage as a combined fire and water job from the start.
Same day, most cases. We keep tarps, plywood, and crew availability for Marietta’s storm season, which runs heavy May through September. If a pine comes through your roof in East Cobb and the attic fire is out, we board up, inspect for ember pockets in the insulation, and start the smoke cleanup in the same visit. You call (888) 690-3757, and Wade heads out.
Call Wade’s Restoration for Fire & Smoke Damage in Marietta
If your house has smoke in it tonight, call (888) 690-3757 right now. Wade answers his own phone. He’ll ask where you are in Marietta, what happened, and what the house looks like, and he’ll tell you honestly what you’re up against and what it’s going to take. Free estimate, no trip charge inside Cobb County, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every job. If you’re over 65 or a veteran, you get 10% off, always. And if something’s not right after we’re done, you call the same number and Wade comes back himself.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta, serving Marietta since 2007.