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Mold remediation
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ReconstructionFree 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.
Get your free estimateFast, Reliable Fire Damage Restoration Across North Palm Beach
Fire damage restoration in North Palm Beach typically runs $3,200 to $8,500 for a standard kitchen fire and $12,000 to $35,000 for whole-home smoke and structural damage. Most jobs can be assessed same-day and mitigation started within 24 hours. If you’re standing in a smoke-damaged house right now, call (728) 220-0713 and a live person answers, day or night. Our Fire Damage Restoration crews know the difference between a 1960s concrete-block ranch off Lighthouse Drive and a newer Mediterranean-style estate on the Earman River. That matters more than most people realize.
We serve North Palm Beach with background-checked techs who carry Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying equipment and put every price in writing before work starts. No phone trees. No price moves at the door.
Why Keegan Restoration West Palm Beach Is North Palm Beach’s Preferred Fire Damage Restoration Company
North Palm Beach homeowners call us because we show up inside the window we give them and we write things down. That sounds basic, but it’s the thing most restoration companies in this trade get wrong. Our crews work detached workshops, canal-front estates, and 1970s ranch homes along US-1 and Prosperity Farms Road without treating any of them like a template job.
We’re part of the Garrison Partners family, and we’ve been running fire, water, and mold jobs since 2005. Every smoke and fire job ships with The Garrison Standard: written scope and price before any equipment gets unloaded, background-checked technicians in uniform, and a written 365-Day Done Right Promise. If a repair fails within one year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s in writing, not a handshake.
Shane Pruitt leads our team. The way he runs a fire job is the way we run all of them: documentation first, drying science second, and no short cuts on either. Call us at (728) 220-0713 and you’ll speak to a live person who can get a crew routed toward North Palm Beach immediately.
Restoration work we handle
Fire Damage Restoration Company in North Palm Beach
We’re a fire damage restoration company working North Palm Beach’s specific housing stock: 1950s-to-70s concrete-block ranches, Mediterranean-style waterfront properties, and detached workshops on larger lots. Fire damage restoration here means more than wiping soot off walls. It means pulling smoke out of concrete block pores, documenting moisture levels after firefighting water saturates drywall, and drying saltwater-saturated materials when a canal-front home gets hosed down. In North Palm Beach, fire damage restoration gives us two enemy entries in the same job: the fire itself and the water damage used to stop it.
Initial Damage Assessment
We walk the property, take moisture readings in walls and slabs, map smoke travel, and photograph everything before anything moves. In concrete-block homes, smoke pushes into wall cavities and sits there. That doesn’t show up on a quick glance. Our scope of loss gets written down and matched to the insurance claim format most adjusters in Palm Beach County expect.
Pack-Out and Contents Cleaning
Tools, furniture, clothes, kitchen contents. We inventory, pack out, clean, and store what’s salvageable. For detached workshops and garages along North Palm Beach’s acreage properties, that often means power tools, fishing gear, and boat equipment exposed to heat and soot. We clean them off-site and return them when the structure is ready.
Smoke Damage Restoration in North Palm Beach
Smoke damage restoration in North Palm Beach deals with what fire leaves behind after the flames are out. Smoke odor settles into concrete block, drywall, and ceiling insulation. In older North Palm Beach homes, smoke can move through the same wall cavities that have been opened and patched since the 1950s, which makes odor removal a slower, more methodical job than it looks on paper. Restoration here runs $2,800 to $9,600 for moderate smoke damage across a few rooms, and higher for estate homes with tall ceilings and open floor plans.
Odor Neutralization and Surface Cleaning
We use desiccant drying and air scrubbing combined with surface cleaning of walls, ceilings, and fixtures. Heavy smoke odor in Mediterranean-style homes with high ceilings often requires thermal fogging in addition to physical cleaning because the smoke rises and hangs in upper wall areas. That’s a common call for us from the waterfront estates east of US-1.
Structural Soot Removal
Soot is acidic. Left on metal door tracks, window frames, and HVAC registers, it corrodes and pits surfaces within days. We clean and seal those surfaces early in the job. In North Palm Beach’s salt air, that corrosion timeline is even shorter because the ambient humidity and salt content accelerate chemical reactions on exposed metal.
Trusted Brands We Service in North Palm Beach
We run equipment from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, XPOWER, B-Air, and Injectidry, and we carry local parts stock so North Palm Beach jobs don’t stall waiting on a distributor out of Broward. Injectidry panels get used on concrete block walls where we’re pulling moisture out of masonry. B-Air and XPOWER movers go into detached workshops with oversized open spaces. Our drying logs and moisture readings are formatted to IICRC standards, which is what your carrier expects to see when we submit the documentation.
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AfterCommon Fire Damage Restoration Problems We See in North Palm Beach Homes
- Saltwater-soaked drywall from firefighting runoff in canal-front homes. Along the Earman River and Lake Worth Lagoon corridors, fire hoses pull from hydrants fed by the same municipal system, but in surge-prone areas, brackish water can back up into homes through storm drains and low-lying garages. If the drywall stays wet past 48 hours in that environment, mold starts fast, and the high water table means the slab never fully dries on its own.
- Heat-warped door tracks and hardware on detached workshops. Arc flash from a bench grinder or a faulty battery charger can warp steel tracks in minutes. We see this regularly in North Palm Beach’s acreage properties, where workshops are often detached from the primary structure and the fire burns hotter before anyone notices. The fix usually includes structural drying plus hardware replacement, not just smoke cleanup.
- Moisture trapped inside concrete-block walls after fire suppression. Older North Palm Beach homes built in the 1950s and 60s used concrete block with furring strips and drywall over them. Water from a fire hose gets behind that drywall and sits in the block cores. Without Injectidry panels or similar equipment and real psychrometrics, that moisture never reads as dry, and the owner ends up with peeling paint and a musty smell months later.
- Scope disputes over pre-loss condition in stormwater-prone neighborhoods. When a North Palm Beach home near the Earman River has recurring king tide flooding, the adjuster wants clear evidence of what the fire damaged versus what was already compromised by salt and moisture. Our photo documentation and drying logs from before and after keep that conversation clean.
Pricing for Fire Damage Restoration in North Palm Beach, FL
Here are the numbers North Palm Beach homeowners ask us for:
- Kitchen fire cleanup and smoke damage restoration: $3,200 – $8,500
- Whole-home smoke and soot remediation: $9,000 – $18,000
- Structural fire repair including drywall and framing work: $12,000 – $35,000
- Detached workshop fire cleanup and drying: $2,500 – $7,000
- Emergency board-up and initial mitigation: $800 – $2,200
What moves the number: square footage, how far smoke traveled, whether saltwater or firefighting runoff saturated the structure, and whether contents need pack-out and off-site cleaning. Our written estimate covers the full scope before any work starts. Estimates are free, and the price on the page is the price on the contract. Call (728) 220-0713 and we’ll schedule an assessment.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Palm Beach
We handle fire damage restoration for homeowners in North Palm Beach and the surrounding communities. That includes Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, and Greenacres. If you’re nearby and dealing with smoke damage, soot, or a structural fire, call (728) 220-0713 and we’ll route the nearest crew to you.
Serving North Palm Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Palm Beach area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Fire Damage Restoration in North Palm Beach
Within hours. Concrete block is porous, and smoke carries soot particles that push into the block’s surface layer almost immediately after a fire. In a 1950s-era North Palm Beach house with original block construction, smoke can also travel through open block cores in the wall, which means odor and residue end up in rooms that never saw flame. We see this pattern in older homes off Prosperity Farms Road and along US-1, where the block walls haven’t been sealed in decades. The fix starts with air scrubbing and surface sealing, but real odor removal often requires thermal fogging and drying of the wall cavities. Call (728) 220-0713 for a same-day assessment.
Yes. Saltwater does two things that freshwater doesn’t: it conducts electricity more aggressively, which accelerates corrosion on wiring, breakers, and metal fixtures, and it leaves salt crystals behind after the water evaporates. Those crystals keep drawing moisture out of the air, so surfaces never truly dry. In canal-front North Palm Beach homes along the Earman River or Lake Worth Lagoon, we treat saltwater-saturated drywall and framing with antimicrobial application and heavier structural drying than we’d use inland. The electrical components in those homes often need replacement, not just drying, because salt corrosion is irreversible. If your home took firefighting water near a saltwater canal, get a documented moisture reading before you sign off on cleanup.
Most homeowners policies cover detached structures, including workshops, but the coverage limit is typically a percentage of your primary dwelling coverage. That means a workshop fire claim may cap out lower than you’d expect, and contents coverage for tools and equipment can have separate limits. We help North Palm Beach homeowners document the workshop damage, the tools affected, and the drying logs so the adjuster can process the claim without a fight over scope. We’ve handled detached workshop fires where the owner’s biggest headache was proving what was pre-existing versus fire-damaged. Our photo documentation handles that.
High ceilings create a vertical smoke column that deposits soot and odor in upper wall areas and ceiling surfaces that shorter rooms never reach. In Mediterranean-style North Palm Beach estates, we use lift equipment or extension ladders to clean the full wall height, then run thermal fogging to reach the odor up near the ceiling line. Air scrubbing alone won’t get it. Desiccant drying pulls moisture out of the ceiling insulation and upper wall cavities, because smoke odor binds harder to damp surfaces. This is a job where the one-trip, heavy-duty approach matters: you don’t want a crew that shows up without the equipment to reach and treat the full room envelope.
Stabilize the property and start documentation. That means emergency board-up if windows or roof sections were compromised, shutting off utilities where the fire department hasn’t already done it, and photographing everything before cleanup begins. In older North Palm Beach homes, the second step is usually moisture mapping, because firefighting water soaks into drywall and concrete block fast. Every hour of delay in a hot, humid coastal climate pushes you closer to mold growth in those wet cavities. Call us at (728) 220-0713 and we’ll get a crew started on mitigation while the adjuster is still getting scheduled.
Written by Shane Pruitt, Owner at Keegan Restoration West Palm Beach, serving North Palm Beach and surrounding communities.