Free visual inspection and a written scope of work before any mitigation begins - photos, moisture readings, and drying logs go in your claim file
The scope we write is the scope we bill. Anything new gets shown to you, in writing, before we touch it.
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AfterTrusted Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration for Lodi Homeowners
Fire damage in Lodi moves fast, and it never stops at what the flames touched. Smoke pushes into wall cavities, soot settles into grout and fabric, and within 48 hours the odor sets into porous surfaces for good. Floodline Restoration Co. has answered fire calls across Lodi, Hasbrouck Heights, and Garfield for over 42 years, providing 24 Hour Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Lodi, NJ. We show up with IICRC-certified technicians, we write down exactly what we’ll do before we touch anything, and we finish with the 90-Day Done Right Promise in your hands. If your home has fire or smoke damage, call (640) 356-1140 and a live dispatcher picks up, any hour.
What Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Service Includes
Fire Damage Cleanup
This is the first pass after the fire is out: removing charred drywall, ruined insulation, scorched framing, and any debris the fire left behind. When you need it, you need it fast, because burned materials keep off-gassing and drawing rodents and moisture. Our crew in Lodi clears the damaged material, bags it, and disposes of it properly, then maps the remaining structure for what’s salvageable and what has to go. We don’t guess. We document it.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot is acidic. Left on metal fixtures, it etches the finish within days. Left on walls and ceilings, it bleeds through paint and returns months later as a yellow-brown ghost stain. Our technicians clean and seal affected surfaces using professional-grade chemical sponges, HEPA vacuums, and wet-cleaning methods matched to each surface type. Hard surfaces get one treatment; painted drywall gets another. We’ve cleaned enough Lodi homes to know the difference matters.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Smoke odor doesn’t live in the air. It lives in drywall, carpet padding, ductwork, cabinet interiors, and behind baseboards. We don’t mask it with fragrance, we remove it at the source using thermal fogging, ozone treatment in unoccupied spaces, and hydroxyl generators when people or pets are present. The goal is a home that doesn’t smell like a fire, not a home that smells like a fire covered in flowers. We verify with a walkthrough before we call it done.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
Your furniture, clothing, dishes, and personal items need cleaning too, and in many Lodi fire jobs they need to leave the house to do it. Floodline Restoration Co. can pack out, inventory, clean, deodorize, and store your contents until the structure is ready for them back. Every item gets logged, photographed, and tracked, so you know what left and what came back. Your insurance carrier gets the same list we do.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
After a structure fire in Lodi, broken windows, burned roof sections, and compromised doors leave the house open to weather, animals, and trespassers. We board up and tarp the property the same day we’re called, using plywood and heavy-duty tarps anchored to code. This isn’t patchwork. It’s a temporary envelope that holds until reconstruction begins and keeps a bad situation from getting worse overnight.
Structural Fire Repair
Once the cleanup is done, the rebuild starts: reframing burned sections, replacing roof sheathing, re-hanging drywall, re-insulating, and finishing to match the existing home. The crew that did the initial board-up and soot removal doesn’t hand the job off. Floodline Restoration Co. runs the same background-checked, uniformed technicians from the first call to the final walkthrough. That’s the whole point of hiring the Best Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Lodi, NJ instead of a cleanup crew and a separate contractor.
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.
Brands We Service for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration
Our crews run XPOWER air movers and B-Air filtration on nearly every fire job in Lodi. XPOWER’s axial fans move the volume of air you need to clear smoke-laden rooms fast, and we keep their units on every truck so we’re not waiting on a rental house. For embedded moisture in studs and subfloors after fire suppression, we use Injectidry systems to pull water out of cavities hidden behind fire-damaged walls. These aren’t brand names we drop. They’re the equipment our techs are trained on and our homeowners see running in their living rooms.
Every Floodline Restoration Co. technician carries current IICRC certification, which means the methods match the manufacturer’s own guidelines for the gear we run. We’ve serviced hundreds of homes across Lodi, Rockleigh, and Bronxville with this equipment, and it shows in the dry logs and clean air readings. Whether your system is a specific brand or a mix of what past contractors left behind, we can work on it.
Signs You Need Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Right Now
- Visible soot staining on walls, ceilings, or around vents. Soot doesn’t stay put. It migrates with air currents and can spread to rooms the fire never touched. The longer it sits, the deeper it bonds, and repainting over it without sealing guarantees a stain that comes back in six months.
- Persistent smoke odor that won’t air out. If the smell is still there after a week of open windows, it’s trapped in porous surfaces: drywall, carpet, upholstery, ceiling tiles. That’s the point where household sprays and candles stop working and professional deodorization starts being the only real fix.
- Discoloration or peeling on metal fixtures like hinges, handles, or light trim. Acidic soot corrodes metal finishes quickly. If your doorknobs or plumbing fixtures look tarnished or spotty days after a fire, the soot is actively damaging them. On structural metal, the same chemistry is working on fasteners and brackets.
- Charred or scorched drywall, even if it looks dry. Burned drywall loses structural integrity and holds smoke deep in the gypsum core. It also wicks water from fire suppression. Leaving it in place sets you up for mold and a lingering odor source behind new paint.
- Family members with new coughing, headaches, or irritated eyes since the fire. Smoke particulate and off-gassing from burned synthetics aren’t healthy to breathe long-term. If anyone in the house is reacting, that’s a sign the air isn’t clean yet, even if the room looks fine.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Process - Step by Step
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Scope and emergency stabilization. We arrive, walk the property with you, and write down what we’re seeing: damage extent, structural concerns, smoke travel paths, and immediate hazards. If the house needs board-up or tarping, that happens first, same visit. You get the written scope before any work starts.
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Water extraction and drying. Fire suppression leaves water behind, and in Lodi’s humid summer months that water becomes a mold problem inside seventy-two hours. We run XPOWER air movers and Injectidry systems where cavities are wet, taking daily moisture readings and logging every number until the dry standard is met.
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Soot and smoke residue removal. This is the labor-heavy middle phase: HEPA vacuuming every surface, chemical sponge cleaning walls and ceilings, wet-cleaning hard fixtures, and removing charred drywall and insulation. We seal the structural wood that remains so smoke odor can’t re-release later.
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Odor neutralization and air cleaning. Depending on occupancy, we use thermal fogging, ozone, or hydroxyl generators to break down odor molecules at the source. We also clean and sanitize the HVAC system, because a furnace that recirculates smoke through every room undoes all the surface cleaning.
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Reconstruction and final verification. New drywall goes up, new insulation goes in, finishes get matched, and your contents come back from pack-out. We walk through with you, go over the moisture log and cleaning record, and hand you the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something’s not right, we make it right, no arguing.
How Much Does Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Cost in Lodi?
A typical smoke and soot cleanup in a single Lodi room runs $1,200 to $3,800, depending on whether ceilings, walls, and contents all need treatment. Full-home fire restoration, including structural repair, starts around $8,000 and can reach $60,000 or more for significant fires where framing and roofing are involved. Emergency board-up and tarping in Lodi typically runs $400 to $1,200, and contents pack-out and cleaning adds $1,500 to $6,000 depending on volume.
What moves the number: square footage affected, how far smoke traveled through the HVAC system, whether structural members are burned, and whether contents need pack-out and off-site cleaning. The biggest mistake is accepting a low bid from a crew that skips the sealing step, because you’ll pay again when the stain and smell bleed through new paint. A square deal means the scope is in writing, the price is locked before work starts, and we bill your insurance carrier directly. The estimate is free, and you’ll have it in your hands before you agree to anything. Call (640) 356-1140 for an exact quote.
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Near Lodi - Our Service Area
Floodline Restoration Co. serves Lodi and the surrounding Bergen County communities, including Hasbrouck Heights, Garfield, Tuckahoe, Dobbs Ferry, and the Yonkers neighborhoods from Getty Square up through Northwest and Northeast Yonkers. We also run crews across the river to Rockleigh and Bronxville. Most emergency calls in Lodi see a live dispatcher answer immediately and a crew on site within the hour. If you’re in the area and need fire or smoke work, you’re in our service map, and our home page covers the full list of restoration services we handle.
Serving Lodi, NJ - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lodi area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Lodi
It’s the process of cleaning, repairing, and rebuilding a home after a fire: removing charred materials, cleaning soot from every surface, eliminating smoke odor from porous materials, and reconstructing what was damaged. In Lodi, it also means managing the water left behind by fire hoses. Floodline Restoration Co. handles our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Lodi from emergency board-up to final paint, so you’re never coordinating between a cleanup crew and a builder.
A smoke cleanup in one or two rooms can be finished in three to five days. A full-home fire restoration with structural repair typically runs three to eight weeks, depending on material lead times and the extent of the rebuild. We give you a written timeline at the start, and we update it if anything changes, so you’re never wondering where the job stands.
A single-room smoke cleanup starts around $1,200. Full-home fire restoration, including structural work, runs $8,000 to $60,000 or more. The variables are square footage, smoke travel, structural damage, and contents volume. Call (640) 356-1140 for a free in-person estimate, and you’ll have the number in writing before any work begins.
Yes. We document everything with photos, moisture logs, and itemized scopes, and we bill your carrier directly. You never have to play messenger between Floodline Restoration Co. and your adjuster. Our documentation is detailed enough that adjusters rarely have follow-up questions, and we handle those directly when they do.
Yes. A live dispatcher answers the phone twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. For emergencies in Lodi, we typically have a crew on site within the hour. If your house needs board-up or tarping, we can often complete it the same day we’re called.
Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t done right, we make it right at no additional cost, no arguing, no paperwork battle. It’s the Keystone Standard, backed by the K.E.Y.S. values code, and it applies to every fire and smoke restoration job we complete in Lodi.
Don’t re-enter the home until the fire department has cleared it as structurally safe. Once they have, don’t touch or wipe soot-covered surfaces, since wiping can push soot deeper into paint and fabric. If you can, open windows to start airing the space, and make a list of what you think is damaged. We’ll handle everything else, including the pack-out and inventory.
Schedule Your Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Service in Lodi Today
Fire damage doesn’t wait, and neither should you. Call Floodline Restoration Co. at (640) 356-1140 for a free, no-obligation estimate. A live person answers, day or night. We’ll come out, look at the damage, put the scope in writing, and get to work. Done right, and backed in writing.
Written by Curt Bowman, Owner at Floodline Restoration Co., serving Lodi since 2010.