Fire & Smoke Damage
Soot, smoke and odor removal, plus the water damage the fire service leaves.
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Damage does not stop when the fire is out. Ash and soot keep corroding what they settle on: within hours, finishes on kitchen appliances yellow, glass etches and metal tarnishes. Smoke odor sets into porous materials and stays there until it is properly treated.
Speed matters more here than almost anywhere. We clean structure and contents, remove odor at its source rather than masking it, and deal with the water the fire service necessarily left behind.
Fire & Smoke Damage calls in Farmington run out of our 1215 Mission Ave office. We cover Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Flora Vista, Kirtland, Shiprock, Fruitland and the rest of San Juan County, and the Farmington crew is on call 24 hours a day.
What happens when we arrive
We document the property on site with Encircle before anything is touched. Every photograph carries a time and a location stamp, so the condition the fire left the building in is on record permanently — that evidence is impossible to recreate once cleaning starts.
Then we write a scope of work and a preliminary estimate on the spot, so you know what the job involves and what it costs before you commit to it. Once you sign it off, we begin.
A fire almost always leaves two problems, not one. Alongside the soot and smoke there is the water the fire service put into the structure, and that needs extraction and structural drying exactly as any other water loss would.
What happens to your belongings
Contents are either cleaned where they stand or packed out to be cleaned away from the property, depending on the damage and on what you would prefer. Where we bring portable storage to site, your things stay on your property throughout.
With smoke and fire damage there is a judgment on each item about whether restoring it costs more than replacing it. We give you our read and the reasoning, and that conversation includes you, your adjuster and the technician doing the work. The decision is yours.
Getting the smell out
Smoke odor lives in porous material — drywall, insulation, soft furnishings, framing. Air freshener over the top of it buys a few days.
Odor is removed at the source: cleaning what can be cleaned, removing what cannot, and treating the structure itself. Air scrubbers run through the process to take smoke particulate out of the air rather than pushing it around the house.
Your insurance claim, and what you are entitled to
We document the loss, write the preliminary scope and price, and submit it to your adjuster once you give us their details. We handle what the carrier needs from our side and keep you informed.
You choose who works on your home. A carrier may recommend a company; it cannot hold your payment back because you chose someone else, and it is the coverage written into your policy that decides your claim.
Claims move at the pace of the adjuster handling them. Letting the mitigation work start immediately is what stops the damage growing while that runs its course.
Who does the work
Cory Eddy is an owner of M&R and a second-generation restoration professional, certified by the IICRC in Water Damage Restoration, Applied Structural Drying and Applied Microbial Remediation. Brendon Charley is certified in Water Damage Restoration and Applied Structural Drying.
We own our equipment: more than 200 air movers, 50 dehumidifiers, 30 air scrubbers, thermal imaging cameras and moisture meters, thermal heat exchangers, and a truck-mounted extraction system. The phone is staffed around the clock.
When the structure is clean and dry, we hand you to a contractor we trust to rebuild.
What this covers
- Soot and smoke removal
- Odor removal at the source
- Contents pack-out and cleaning
- Structural cleaning
- Fire-fighting water extraction
- On-site scope and estimate
- Board-up and secure
- Insurance documentation
Towns we cover from Farmington
Questions
Fire & Smoke Damage in Farmington
Why does soot need dealing with quickly?
Because it keeps working after the fire is out. Within hours soot yellows appliance finishes, etches glass and tarnishes metal, and smoke odor settles into porous materials. What is cleaned in the first days is often saved; what sits for weeks frequently is not.
Will my belongings be thrown away?
Not without a conversation. Each item is a judgment about whether restoring it costs more than replacing it, and that discussion includes you, your adjuster and the technician. Contents are cleaned in place or packed out and cleaned, whichever suits the loss.
There is water damage as well as fire damage. Is that a separate job?
No. The water the fire service leaves is extracted and the structure dried as part of the same job, using the same equipment and the same measured dry standard as any other water loss.
Can the smoke smell actually be removed?
Yes, by treating the source rather than covering it. That means cleaning what can be cleaned, removing material that has absorbed too much, treating the structure, and running air scrubbers to take particulate out of the air.
Need fire & smoke damage in Farmington?
Most repairs are finished on the first visit. Emergency crews run 24/7 across the Four Corners.