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If you’re standing in a smoke-damaged home in Shorewood right now, here’s the straight answer: fire and smoke restoration here usually costs between $3,200 and $14,500 depending on how far the smoke traveled and whether firefighting water soaked the crawl space. Most Shorewood jobs can have a crew on site within 60 to 90 minutes. Call Wade’s Restoration at (888) 690-6095 and you’ll get a live person, not a menu. We know the lake homes, the converted cabins, and the tight drives off County Road 19, and we’ll tell you over the phone what you’re actually dealing with.

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Key takeaways:

• Fire and smoke restoration in Shorewood typically runs $3,200-$14,500, with kitchen fires on the lower end and whole-home smoke saturation on the upper end.
• Converted 1940s-1960s lake cabins in Shorewood have pier-and-beam crawl spaces that trap smoke and firefighting water differently than slab homes.
• Wade Ferris answers his own phone, 24/7. He’ll be the one walking your property, not a rotating crew of strangers.
• The 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing on every fire and smoke job we do in Shorewood.

Why Wade’s Restoration of Minneapolis Is Shorewood’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company

Wade’s Restoration has been pulling smoke out of Shorewood homes since 2007, and the reason we keep getting called back is boring and simple: Wade shows up himself, he tells you what he’d do if it were his place, and he doesn’t pad the scope. The houses here aren’t like the tract builds in Chanhassen or Minnetonka. A lot of them started life as summer cabins on Lake Minnetonka and got winterized in the 1970s with whatever lumber was handy. That means a fire in a Shorewood kitchen behaves differently than the same fire in a 2005 colonial two towns over. Smoke pushes into wall cavities that were never sealed, settles into crawl spaces with no vapor barrier, and sticks to cedar tongue-and-groove that soaks up odor like a sponge. We know to look there, and that’s not something you learn from a franchise training video.

Our response time to Shorewood is typically under an hour and a half. We’re not based in Shorewood, and we won’t pretend to be. Dispatch and scheduling coordinate out of our Minneapolis-St Paul office, and the crews we send to the 55331 zip code know the side streets off Smithtown Road, the lakefront lots along Eureka Road, and the tight gravel drives where a board-up van blocks the only way in. That local knowledge changes how we sequence the work. On a narrow lakefront drive, we tarp and board the lakeside access first so medics or the fire marshal can still get through. On a pier-and-beam cabin, we seal the crawl space before turning on positive-pressure drying, because pulling humid lake air into a smoke-damaged cavity is how you get mold behind the drywall in three days. That’s the kind of thing that only comes from doing the work here, repeatedly, for almost two decades.

And yes, we’re the company your neighbor has already used. Ask anyone on your street who’s had a kitchen fire or a chimney blowback. Wade Ferris runs Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration the way he runs everything else: his name is on the truck, his cell number is on the estimate, and he’s going to run into you at the hardware store next month. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Shorewood

Fire Damage Cleanup

Fire cleanup in Shorewood starts with removing what can’t be saved and stabilizing what can, which sometimes leads into our Reconstruction & Cleanup in Shorewood. In converted lake cabins, that often means cutting out smoke-damaged plaster and pulling charred framing to expose the cavity. In newer lakefront estates off Lakeview Drive, it means protecting custom millwork and high-end finishes while we clean. We scope every job on paper before we start, and you’ll see the line items. No vague “cleanup” charges.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Soot is acidic and starts etching surfaces within hours, especially on the soft cedar and pine paneling common in Shorewood’s older lake cottages. We use dry-chem sponges, HEPA vacuums, and air scrubbers to get soot off walls, ceilings, and trims before it bonds. In homes with tongue-and-groove cedar walls, the sponge-and-vacuum order matters. A rookie with a wet rag smears soot into the grain and makes it permanent. We don’t send rookies to do that.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

Smoke odor in a Shorewood converted cabin gets into places most restorers never check: the open crawl space, the sill plates, the fiberglass batts under the floor, even the gap behind the original baseboards. We use thermal fogging, ozone, and hydroxyl generators depending on the surface and the occupancy. And we don’t mask with perfume. If you can smell “clean” but not the smoke, it isn’t clean. The 90-Day Done Right Promise applies to odor: if you catch a whiff of smoke in a closed room within 90 days, Wade comes back and makes it right. No arguing, no re-invoicing.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

When a Shorewood fire ruins a kitchen but the rest of the house is salvageable, we pack out the contents to a secure cleaning facility and itemize everything. That means a contents list with photos, because your adjuster will want it and because “two boxes of clothes” isn’t a claim document. We clean textiles, books, dishes, photo albums, tools, and whatever else survived. When it comes back, it comes back clean. You’ll get the log of what left and what came home.

Emergency Board-Up & Tarping

After the fire marshal releases the scene, the window and the outside door are the next emergency. Shorewood’s lakeside lots are tight, and an open first-floor window facing the lake is an invitation. We board and tarp fast, and on narrow shared drives we stage the van off the main access so the fire crew, your plumber, and the insurance adjuster can still get through. This is the job where “fast” matters most, and Wade heads out himself on board-up calls. Shorewood homeowners call, and the plywood is up before the fire investigator finishes his coffee.

Trusted Brands We Service and Use in Shorewood

We run XPOWER air scrubbers on every Shorewood smoke job, because the HEPA filtration handles the fine particulate that loves hiding in cedar paneling. For drying after fire suppression, the workhorses are Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and Injectidry panels, especially in those pier-and-beam crawl spaces where the floor cavity never really dries on its own. We don’t use homeowner-grade gear. The equipment has to keep up with Lake Minnetonka humidity in July, and it does. We stock filters, panels, and replacement parts locally so a Shorewood job doesn’t stall waiting on a shipment from out of state.

Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Shorewood Homes

• Smoke in rooms far from the fire. Shorewood’s converted lake cabins were never built with fire-stopping or sealed top plates. Smoke travels through the open wall cavities and the crawl space, then resurfaces in a bedroom two doors down. If the restorer only treats the room that burned, the smell comes back.
• Firefighting water pooling under pier-and-beam floors. The crawl space under an older Shorewood cabin sits close to the water table, and when fire hoses dump hundreds of gallons, the sandy soil under the house saturates. That water wicks into sill plates that may already be compromised from decades of frost heave and condensation, and you get rot plus smoke odor in the framing.
• Narrow drives and tight lakeside lots. Board-up on a Shorewood lakefront home often means the van blocks the only access for medics, the fire marshal, and the plumber. It also means an unsecured lakeside entrance stays open longer in a standard franchise playbook. We sequence the board-up so the public safety people can still work.
• Positive-pressure drying in a sealed lake house. Crank positive pressure without addressing the open crawl space and you’ll pull Lake Minnetonka humidity straight into smoke-damaged walls. That’s how a $4,000 smoke job becomes an $18,000 mold job in three days. We seal first, dry second.

Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Shorewood, MN

We Also Serve Cities Near Shorewood

We’re in Shorewood every week, and we take the same crews into the neighboring lake communities: Chanhassen, Mound, Minnetonka, and Victoria. If you’re just over the line and you’ve had a fire, call the same number. The crawl space in a 1950s Mound cottage has the same problems as the one on Eureka Road, and we’ll treat it the same way. Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Shorewood isn’t a different company when you’re in Victoria; it’s the same Wade, the same truck, the same promise.

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