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Mold remediation
Storm response
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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 Katy
A kitchen fire in Katy doesn’t just leave char and soot behind. It leaves water from fire suppression, smoke that has worked its way through every room of the house, and a family trying to figure out what happens next. Our crews respond to fire scenes all over Katy, from the older brick veneer tracts near Nottingham Country to the newer builds in Cinco Ranch, and we arrive knowing exactly what we’re walking into: slab foundations, clay soil, brick exteriors, and HVAC ductwork that holds smoke odor far longer than it should. Call (325) 550-1783 and a live person answers, any hour, any day. We will get a crew dispatched, tell you the honest scope of what we see, and put the price in writing before we touch a single surface.
Why Keegan Restoration Houston Is Katy’s Preferred Fire Damage Restoration Company
Katy homeowners have a very particular set of concerns after a fire, and they have usually dealt with contractors before who made promises and then disappeared. We work differently because the standard we run to doesn’t leave room for that. The Fire Damage Restoration team at Keegan sends background-checked, uniformed technicians to every job in Katy, and the price is delivered in writing before any work begins. That price does not move at the door. Not on a small soot cleanup in a 1990s tract home, not on a full structural repair after a Cinco Ranch kitchen fire.
We have been part of the Garrison Partners family since 2005, which means every Katy job we run is governed by The Garrison Standard. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs every repair in writing for a full year. If something fails inside that window, we return and make it right at no charge. That guarantee is not a sales line. It is the reason we are willing to do the job correctly the first time, in Katy, on your street, in your house, with documentation formatted to support your insurance claim from day one.
Response time matters after a fire, and we treat Katy as a local dispatch zone. We know the traffic patterns on the Westpark Tollway and I-10, we know which side of Cinco Ranch Boulevard backs up at 5pm on a Thursday, and we know the difference between a fire scene that needs a same-day board-up and one that can wait for a measured scope of loss. When you call, you get a human being. Shane Pruitt leads the crews that serve Katy, and the standard he holds them to does not change based on the size of the job.
Restoration work we handle
Fire Damage Cleanup in Katy
Fire Damage Cleanup in Katy carries a complication many metro-area homes don’t face: wind-driven rain intrusion through brick veneer weep holes, a failure mode we have seen repeatedly in neighborhoods like Nottingham Country since Hurricane Harvey. That means a fire scene here often starts with wet substrates and mold-risk conditions before we even begin addressing char and smoke. We run moisture mapping across the fire-affected area and the surrounding rooms before we set containment, because hidden moisture behind fire-damaged drywall will feed mold long after the visible soot is gone.
What a Katy homeowner actually needs after a small kitchen fire is not always intuitive. The visible burn is obvious. The water from the fire suppression system is the quiet problem, especially on slab foundations with polybutylene supply lines that have already been stressed by decades of clay-soil movement. We treat the water first, then the char, then the smoke. In that order, every time.
Fire Damage Cleanup in Katy typically runs $2,800 to $6,500 for a contained kitchen fire, $4,000 to $12,000 when smoke has spread through multiple rooms, and $15,000 to $45,000 or more for structural fire damage requiring framing repairs and full remediation. The written scope we deliver before work starts breaks down exactly what you’re paying for, line by line.
Emergency Board-Up and Site Security
A burned home in Katy is vulnerable the moment the fire department leaves. Open walls, broken windows, and missing doors invite two problems: weather getting in and people who don’t belong there. We board up and tarp within hours of your call, and we document every step for the insurance claim you’re about to file.
Board-up work on Katy brick veneer homes has a specific challenge: the veneer gap that allowed wind-driven rain in before the fire is still there after it. We seal those openings as part of board-up, not as an afterthought, because failure to do so is exactly how a fire cleanup turns into a water and mold job two weeks later.
Soot and Char Removal Protocols
Soot in a Katy home built in the 1990s has usually found its way into the HVAC ductwork. That ductwork was sized for the cooling load of a Houston-area summer, which means a lot of air moves through it, and soot particulate goes with it. We include duct inspection as standard on fire cleanup here, not as an upsell, because skipping it means the smoke smell returns the first time you run the AC in June.
We run professional-grade HEPA air scrubbers and B-Air negative air machines during the char removal phase, with containment barriers set before any drywall comes down. The goal is to keep soot from migrating to rooms that were never burned, because that migration is what turns a $3,000 cleanup into a $15,000 remediation.
Smoke Odor Removal in Katy
Smoke Odor Removal in Katy is weighted heavily toward the ductwork and the soft goods, especially in the 1990s-era tract homes that make up so much of the city’s housing stock. Soot particulate settles into ducts, and the humidity of a Katy summer keeps those particulates active far longer than they would be in a dryer climate. We run thermal fogging, hydroxyl generation, and ozone treatment inside sealed containment, with a full pack-out of soft goods before any odor work begins.
If you skip the pack-out, the smoke smell will come back. It is that simple. Clothes, bedding, curtains, upholstered furniture, area rugs. All of it holds smoke, and all of it has to be either treated off-site or sealed and documented for replacement. We inventory every soft good we remove, photograph it, and format that inventory for your insurance adjuster. A Katy homeowner who files a smoke damage claim without an itemized pack-out list is leaving money on the table.
Smoke Odor Removal in Katy typically runs $2,200 to $5,000 for a single-room fire with duct cleaning included, and $6,000 to $15,000 for whole-home odor removal on a multi-room fire. The pH-neutralizing thermal fogging we use is the difference between a house that smells clean for three weeks and a house that smells clean in August, when the humidity returns.
Pack-Out and Content Cleaning
Soft goods don’t get treated in place on a serious Katy smoke job. We move them out, clean them in a controlled environment, and store them until the structure is cleared. The pack-out list becomes the single most useful document in your claim file, and we build it to adjuster standards: item, condition, replacement value.
When we work in a Cinco Ranch home with higher-value contents, we photograph everything before it moves. Two photos per item, one reference shot per room before anything is disturbed. The documentation is the job.
HVAC Duct Cleaning and Sealing
Smoke odor in Katy homes lives in the ducts. The longer the fire burned, the deeper the particulate went, and a standard residential duct cleaning does not always reach it. We inspect every register, check the return air plenum, and recommend sealing where the ductwork has degraded. A 1990s duct system with fiberglass interior panels will hold smoke far longer than a modern flex-duct setup, and we treat it accordingly.
Trusted Brands We Service in Katy
We’ve worked on fire and smoke damage in homes built by most major Katy-area builders including Lennar, Perry Homes, David Weekley, Meritage, and Coventry, and dozens of smaller custom builds in Cinco Ranch and Green Trails. Because our teams run these jobs against the IICRC S500 and S520 standards, the brand of equipment and the brand of your house matter less than the measured performance: Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers for structural drying, XPOWER air movers for air exchange, Injectidry systems for cavity drying, and B-Air negative air machines for containment. We stock the filters, HEPA bags, and specialty hoses we need on the truck. We don’t lose a day waiting on a part.
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AfterCommon Fire Damage Restoration Problems We See in Katy Homes
- Weep-hole flooding that predates the fire. Nottingham Country and other brick veneer neighborhoods in Katy saw widespread water intrusion through weep holes during Harvey, and many of those homes never fully dried out. When a fire happens on top of that, we’re working a mold-risk substrate under the char, and the restoration has to account for it from day one.
- Clay soil movement reopening structural cracks. Katy’s expansive clay shrinks in drought and swells in rain, and that movement puts stress on slab foundations. A fire repair that doesn’t account for existing slab movement will fail at the repair seam, so we document pre-existing cracks and build repairs to move with the house.
- Soot migration into 1990s HVAC systems. Older Katy tract homes have rigid metal or fiberglass duct systems that broadcast smoke particulate through the entire house within hours of a fire. If we don’t seal the supply and return openings before any drywall work starts, we push soot into rooms that were never affected.
- Polybutylene pipe failures during restoration. Homes built in Katy between roughly 1985 and 1995 often have polybutylene supply lines, and those pipes fail at the fittings as the clay soil shifts. We shut off, drain, and isolate the affected area before beginning remediation, because a burst pipe during a fire cleanup is a $10,000 problem nobody budgeted for.
Pricing for Fire Damage Restoration in Katy, TX
Here is the honest pricing picture for Katy. A small kitchen fire with contained smoke damage and no structural involvement runs $2,800 to $6,500. A multi-room fire with smoke throughout the home runs $4,000 to $12,000. Full structural fire repair, including framing, drywall, electrical, and full smoke odor removal, runs $15,000 to $45,000 and up. What moves the number is the extent of char removal, whether the fire spread through shared wall cavities, how far the smoke reached into the ductwork, and whether water from fire suppression is still standing when we arrive. We deliver the written scope before work starts, and that number does not change at the door. Call (325) 550-1783 for a free estimate, and we’ll give you real dollar ranges for your specific house, not a generic ballpark.
We Also Serve Cities Near Katy
While this page covers work across Katy, our crews also respond to fire damage calls in Sugar Land, Bellaire, Missouri City, and the broader Houston area. If you’re just outside the Katy city limits, call and ask. Dispatch works from the Houston office, but the crew that shows up is local to your area and the pricing is the same written-before-we-start standard.
Serving Katy, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Katy 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 Katy
Because the water used to put the fire out is now inside your walls and under your slab, and Katy’s brick veneer homes have weep holes that let wind-driven rain in during every serious storm. If that water is not dried out before we start the fire cleanup, you’re going to have mold behind the charred drywall within 48 to 72 hours, and that is a much bigger job than the fire ever was. We run moisture mapping on every Katy fire scene before we touch a single smoke-damaged surface. Call (325) 550-1783 and we’ll walk you through what we’re checking and why.
In many cases, yes. The modern drywall and insulation in Cinco Ranch builds respond well to thermal fogging and hydroxyl treatment, but the answer depends on the surface: painted drywall can often be cleaned and sealed, while porous surfaces like unpainted wood, carpet pad, and acoustic ceiling texture may need to come out. We evaluate the smoke penetration depth before we make any demolition decisions, and we tell you what needs to come out and what stays. The written scope covers all of it.
Yes, and we treat that as a real risk every time. Polybutylene supply lines in Katy homes built in the late 1980s and 1990s fail at the fittings as the clay soil shifts, and the vibration and temperature changes from a fire can accelerate that failure. Before we begin any restoration work, we isolate the water supply to the affected area. It costs you nothing and prevents a burst pipe from turning a $5,000 fire cleanup into a $30,000 water and mold job. Call us for a scope of loss and we’ll include the isolation step in writing.
Katy sits on expansive clay that swells when wet and contracts during drought, and that movement transfers directly to your slab. A fire repair that seals a structural crack without accounting for that movement will crack again within a season or two. We document every existing crack and joint before work begins, and we build post-fire structural repairs to move with the slab rather than fight it. That’s why the 365-Day Done Right Promise matters here: if the repair fails, we’re back in Katy making it right at no charge.
In smaller 1990s Katy tract homes, negative air containment is non-negotiable. These houses are tightly laid out, and soot from a single kitchen fire reaches the back bedrooms through the shared HVAC plenum within minutes. We set hard containment barriers with negative air pressure on every fire job, regardless of size, and we seal the supply and return registers before any drywall is removed. A B-Air negative air machine runs throughout the char removal phase. If a contractor tells you they don’t need containment on a Katy fire job, get a second opinion.
If you’ve just had a fire in Katy, don’t wait for the smoke to settle further. Call (325) 550-1783 now. A live person answers, we’ll dispatch a crew to your home, and the written price is in your hands before any work begins. That’s the Keegan standard, and it applies to every fire, smoke, and water job in Katy.
Written by Shane Pruitt, Owner at Keegan Restoration Houston, serving Katy and the surrounding area.