If you are reading this standing in a driveway looking at a house that just burned, here is the honest picture: the fire is out, but the damage is still in motion. Acidic soot keeps etching metal, glass, and finishes. Firefighting water keeps soaking into drywall and subfloor. Openings the fire crews cut are letting weather in. Fire restoration exists to stop that motion, then reverse what can be reversed.
Fire 801 manages the full sequence for house fires along the Wasatch Front — kitchen fires, electrical fires, garage fires, chimney fires, and full-structure losses. One team assesses the damage, secures the building, handles soot, water, odor, and contents, documents everything for your insurer, and hands the project off cleanly when rebuilding requires a licensed contractor. You get one phone number and one plan instead of five trades to coordinate yourself.
Fire damage restoration is a chain of dependent tasks. A typical residential fire job with us includes:
Not every fire needs every item. A contained kitchen fire may need cleaning and deodorization only; a fire that ran an attic needs most of the list.
The order is fixed because each step protects the next. First, safety and securing: we confirm the structure can be worked in, then board up and tarp so weather and entry stop adding damage. Second, documentation: photographs and notes of every affected room, taken before demolition, because your claim depends on what existed at this moment. Third, water: extraction and drying equipment go in early, since saturated materials degrade daily and feed mold. Fourth, demolition of what cannot be saved — charred studs, melted fixtures, soaked insulation. Fifth, soot and residue cleaning of everything that stays. Sixth, odor treatment, which only holds once the residue sources are gone. Last, we prepare the space and the paperwork for the rebuild phase and coordinate the handoff.
Restoration and rebuilding are different licenses and different trades, and we keep that line clear. Structural framing, roofing, electrical rewiring, and plumbing replacement belong to licensed general and specialty contractors; we prepare the structure and the documentation they start from, and we can coordinate the handoff. Any fire that touched wiring needs an electrician's evaluation before power is restored — no exceptions. And some houses are past restoring: when fire has compromised the structure itself, honest advice is a rebuild conversation, not a cleaning invoice. We will tell you which side of that line your house is on after the assessment, not after the work.
No two fire losses price alike, and we will not pretend otherwise with a number on a website. What drives cost: how much of the structure burned versus how much only took smoke; the type of soot involved, since greasy protein residue takes far more labor than dry soot; how much water firefighting introduced and how long it sat; the volume of contents to inventory, pack out, and clean; and whether the house stood open to weather before it was secured. Insurance typically pays for covered fire restoration minus your deductible. We provide a written, line-item scope before work begins so you and your adjuster see exactly what is being done and why.
As soon as you can arrange it. Soot residues are acidic and progressively etch and stain metal, glass, grout, and finishes the longer they sit. Materials soaked by firefighting water degrade day by day and can begin growing mold. Early work does not mean rushed decisions — it means securing, drying, and stabilizing so nothing gets worse while the larger plan comes together.
Our work is mitigation and restoration: securing, drying, demolition of unsalvageable material, cleaning, deodorization, and contents. Structural rebuilding — framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing, finish work — belongs to licensed contractors, and we say so plainly. We prepare the structure and documentation the rebuild starts from and can coordinate that handoff so nothing falls between the two phases.
They are usually part of the loss anyway. Smoke moves through a house on heat and pressure, riding hallways, stud cavities, and duct runs into rooms far from the burn. Those rooms often need soot cleaning and deodorization even though nothing in them burned, and they belong in the documented scope — insurers expect smoke migration and adjusters look for it.
Identifying dry, wet, and protein soot correctly — then cleaning each with the method that removes it instead of setting it.
Learn more →Why smoke odor outlasts the visible damage, and what actually eliminates it — source removal first, treatment equipment second.
Learn more →A documented inventory of everything you own — what can be saved, what cannot, and where it all goes in between.
Learn more →Securing a fire-damaged house against weather, entry, and further loss — and meeting your policy's duty to mitigate.
Learn more →Ogden to Provo, Salt Lake and Davis counties in between. One specialist trade, one phone number.
Tell us what happened and where the damage is.
