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Fire and smoke damage restoration in Fort Lauderdale typically costs $3,200-$8,500 for a partial-home mitigation and $12,000-$35,000 for full-structure reconstruction, with emergency board-up and tarping available within 2-4 hours of call. Our crews are dispatched from our South Florida office and carry the equipment to handle both fire residue and the canal-surge water intrusion that accompanies most Fort Lauderdale fire events. Call (754) 247-1426 - a live person answers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and we deliver a written price before any work begins, every time.

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We’ve restored homes from Las Olas Isles to Coral Ridge Isles since 2011, and we’ve learned that Fort Lauderdale fires rarely arrive alone. The same tropical system that shorts your electrical panel often floods your slab through the canal grid. That’s why our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration teams travel with both soot containment gear and structural drying equipment, documented to IICRC and RIA standards, producing the daily moisture logs that turn combined fire-and-water claims into payable invoices.

Why Back to Dry Restoration Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company

Our reputation in Fort Lauderdale was built on documentation, not slogans. Alicia Brennan founded Back to Dry in 2011 after working as a claims adjuster and watching homeowners lose tens of thousands to restoration invoices that lacked photo records, written scopes, or moisture readings insurers would accept. We’ve since restored over 12,000 homes, every one with a written price before work started and a documented record when the crew left.

Fort Lauderdale customers find us because they read the three-star reviews. They stay because we answer questions those reviews raised: exactly what equipment will be in your home, what the daily drying log contains, and why a written scope matters when the adjuster arrives. Our response time to Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods averages 2-4 hours for emergency board-up, and we coordinate dispatch from our Miami office with crews who know the canal-front streets, the 1950s-70s CBS construction, and the specific failure modes of flat-roof membranes in tropical rain.

We’re independently owned and operated under The Haven Standard, not a franchise network. That means Alicia Brennan’s name is on every 365-Day Done Right Promise we issue, and her direct involvement in training means our technicians explain psychrometric data - the measurement of temperature, humidity, and vapor pressure that determines whether your walls are actually dry - in plain language you can repeat to your adjuster.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Fort Lauderdale

Fire Damage Cleanup

Fort Lauderdale’s mid-century CBS homes don’t burn the way wood-frame construction does, but they suffer a different problem: heat drives smoke and soot deep into porous stucco and block cavities, and the same flat-roof membrane that just failed in tropical rain saturates the roof deck above the fire zone. Our cleanup begins with a written scope that identifies both the charred material and the water-damaged substrate, priced before any demolition starts. Haven Standard, Clause 1.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Smoke residue in Fort Lauderdale bonds aggressively to wet surfaces. After a kitchen fire in a 1962 CBS canal-front home on Coral Ridge Isles, our crew arrived to find the roof-deck membrane already saturated from the same tropical system - category 3 canal water sitting under the slab and smoke residue bonding to wet stucco. We ran structural drying with air movers and dehumidification alongside containment for soot, took moisture mapping readings on every wall before antimicrobial treatment, and because the owners were snowbirds already gone north, we documented pre-loss condition and drying logs daily and packed out contents so nothing was lost to secondary black-mold colonization behind the block. This is standard protocol for every Fort Lauderdale smoke job, not an upgrade.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

Fort Lauderdale’s year-round humidity above 70% means smoke odor doesn’t just linger - it reactivates. Crews who deodorize surface stucco without addressing the canal-fed moisture driving odor into the wall cavity guarantee a callback. Our process targets vapor pressure differential, the force that moves moisture and odor molecules through porous material, by drying the cavity first, then applying thermal fogging or ozone treatment to material that can actually hold the deodorizer. We document pre- and post-treatment readings so your adjuster sees the progression.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

Seasonal residents leave Fort Lauderdale homes empty from May through October, right through hurricane season. When fire strikes an unoccupied home, contents sit in smoke and moisture for weeks before discovery. Our pack-out service inventories every item with photo documentation, transports contents to our cleaning facility, and stores them in climate-controlled conditions while the structure dries. For snowbirds who cannot inspect the property themselves, we provide daily photo records and written status updates suitable for direct submission to your insurance carrier.

Emergency Board-Up & Tarping

Fort Lauderdale’s afternoon thunderstorms don’t wait for the fire department to finish. We arrive with board-up materials and temporary roof tarps sized for the low-slope membranes common in 1950s-70s construction, securing the structure against both intrusion and the rain that typically follows a fire event. Every board-up is photographed, every tarp placement logged, and every measurement written into the scope before permanent repairs are priced.

Structural Fire Repair

Reconstruction in Fort Lauderdale requires understanding how CBS walls dry differently than wood frame. Block construction wicks moisture laterally through the wall cavity, so a fire-damaged kitchen can harbor wet substrate in adjacent rooms that never saw flame. Our structural repair scopes include moisture mapping of the full wall system, not just the visible fire zone, with drying logs that continue until readings meet IICRC standards for structural materials.

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Trusted Equipment & Standards We Deploy in Fort Lauderdale

Our crews carry professional-grade drying systems from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, and Injectidry - equipment selected specifically for the high-humidity, low-permeability challenges of Fort Lauderdale’s CBS construction. We document all work to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards, producing the psychrometric logs and photo records that distinguish a payable claim from a disputed invoice. Parts and replacement materials are stocked for the mid-century housing stock dominant in Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods, reducing wait times for common repairs.

Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes

• Smoke odor reappears behind CBS block because crews deodorize the surface without addressing the canal-fed moisture driving odor into the wall cavity. The original 1950s-70s waterproofing has failed, and humidity from the canal grid provides a constant moisture source that reactivates odor molecules trapped in porous block.
• Seasonal snowbird homes sit empty May through October, so a fire’s char and soot aren’t discovered for weeks. Containment and board-up are skipped, secondary mold colonizes the wet charred framing, and a straightforward smoke job becomes a combined fire-mold-water mitigation with contents loss.
• Scope of work is written for fire only, and the same event’s category 3 canal intrusion gets missed entirely. Structural drying never starts, the dried-and-cleaned framing later wicks moisture back from the saturated slab, and six months later the homeowner has buckling flooring, blooming mold, and an insurance dispute over whether the original restoration caused the damage.
• Flat and low-slope roof membranes fail during the same tropical system that caused the electrical fire, saturating roof decking above the fire zone. Crews who don’t moisture-map the full roof assembly write scopes that ignore the wet deck, and the rebuilt kitchen gets installed over substrate that won’t pass a pinless moisture meter.

Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Fort Lauderdale, FL

We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale

Our crews respond throughout Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, and Coconut Creek. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our Miami office with teams stationed for rapid response to canal-front and inland neighborhoods alike.

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