Soot on surfaces you never saw burn
Smoke follows air. It lands in closets, drawers and rooms on the other side of the house and etches into finishes if it sits.

Open 24 hours
Ray answers his own cell
24/7 emergency · Alderwood Manor, Washington
Fire damage does not always mean a total loss. Even when the structure survives, smoke travels through ductwork and stains every surface it touches. We secure the property, remove soot and odor, and bring the home back to pre-loss condition.

20+
Years restoring Puget Sound homes
< 60 min
Typical arrival, day or night
65+
Communities covered
24/7
Owner-answered phone line
You have full rights to stop the progression of water without an estimate. Waiting is what turns a claim into a fight.
In the Northwest a wet structure will not dry on its own. Mold can start growing in as little as five days.
If drying isn't started promptly, carriers can deny the damage that follows. Speed protects your money.
What's included



Know what you are looking at
Ray would rather talk you through it on the phone for free than have you wait a week and find out the hard way. Nothing below costs anything to ask about.

Smoke follows air. It lands in closets, drawers and rooms on the other side of the house and etches into finishes if it sits.
When the furnace or a warm day hits, absorbed smoke off-gasses again. That is why odor work has to be structural, not cosmetic.
Acidic residue keeps attacking metal, glass and grout for weeks. Timing is the difference between cleaning and replacing.
Whatever the fire department used to save your house is now in your floors and walls. Almost every fire job is a drying job too.
Hour by hour
No mystery, no waiting to hear back. This is the sequence on every fire & smoke damage job we run.
Before & after
Same homes, a week or two apart. No staging, no stock photography — just what a documented drying plan and a crew that shows up in the first hour actually produces.

7 days
water out to finished room
Lynnwood · supply line failure
A second-floor supply line let go while the homeowners were at dinner. Water came down through the ceiling and across the entire living room. When Ray walked in, the carpet was floating and the baseboards were already wicking.

0
square feet unnecessarily gutted
Everett · long-term basement seepage
This one had been wet for months before anyone called. Microbial growth had spread across the framing and the smell hit you at the top of the stairs. Two other companies quoted a full gut.
Straight from Ray
An open roof or door after a fire invites weather and theft. Board-up on day one protects your claim as much as your property.
If a company only deodorizes the air, the smell will be back. Source removal and sealing come first — fogging is the last step, not the fix.
What survives is usually decided in the first week. Early inventory and cleaning saves furniture, clothing and keepsakes that would otherwise be totaled.
Fire claims are documented room by room in Xactimate, with photographs behind every line item, so your adjuster is not guessing and neither are you.
(206) 856-3173The six-step process
No mystery, no surprise invoice. This is the same sequence we have run on thousands of Puget Sound homes, using the latest equipment and IICRC-published standards.
No call center, no dispatch queue. The owner's cell rings, 24 hours a day.
Infrared cameras and moisture meters find the water you cannot see — including behind walls and under floors.
High-powered commercial vacuums, or submersible pumps in extreme cases. The faster it's out, the less you lose.
Anti-microbial biocide applied to affected surfaces to stop bacteria and mold before they start.
Air movers, dehumidifiers and heat set to a real drying plan — not guesswork.
Daily readings, documented for your insurance, until every material hits dry standard.
Field notes
Four photographs from real Alderwood Manor, Washington area jobs, and what was happening in the minutes around each one.
Hour oneThe wand does not stop until it comes back dry.
Most of the water you can save a floor from is gone in the first two hours. This is why Ray loads the extractor before he even knows what he is walking into — every minute of pumping is a board you do not replace.
Hour threeEvery stud bay gets a light and a meter on it.
Water travels sideways through framing and sill plates. If a bay reads wet and gets closed anyway, you are paying for the same repair twice next spring. So we check them one at a time and write the numbers down.
Contaminated lossesPlastic, tape, negative air, and a sign on the zipper.
Sewage and mold work is isolated before anything else happens. Tools get decontaminated on the way out. Your kitchen, your kids' rooms and your HVAC never meet what is behind that barrier.
Every jobThat is our van in your driveway — not a franchise sub.
Family owned for 20+ years. When you call the number on this page, the man who shows up is the man who answered. He unloads his own dehumidifiers and he is there when the readings hit dry standard.
Every call goes to the owner's cell
What is on the truck
Trucks stay loaded so nothing has to be picked up on the way to you. This is what rolls up to a Alderwood Manor, Washington driveway at 3am.


Pulls standing water out at volume so drying can actually start on day one.
Low grain refrigerant units pull moisture out of the air, not just move it around your framing.
Placed to a plan and angle, so evaporation happens where the readings say the water is.
See temperature differences behind walls so we open only what has to be opened.
Numbers instead of guesses — logged daily and sent to your adjuster.
Pull water up from underneath boards so floors can often be saved instead of replaced.
Keeps contamination and dust inside the work area and out of the rest of your home.
Cleans the air your family is breathing while the work is happening.
On camera
Most restoration companies show you a finished room. We would rather show you the middle of the job, because that is where losses are either saved or lost.
Water coming off the floor while the meter still reads wet. The wand does not stop until it comes back dry.
Ray on a Puget Sound loss — equipment placement, air movement and what the readings looked like that day.
Or tell us what happened
Before we get there
Do what you safely can, and leave the rest to us. Nothing here is worth getting hurt over — Ray is already on the way.

Main shutoff, appliance valve, or the toilet stop behind the base. If you cannot find it, call and we will talk you to it.
Only from a dry spot at the panel. Never stand in water to reach a switch or breaker.
Get furniture legs, rugs, electronics and boxes up off wet flooring. Photograph everything before you move it.
Cutting drywall or pulling carpet before it is documented can cost you on the claim. Let us photograph and measure first.
(206) 856-3173. Any hour. He will tell you what is urgent and what can wait, even before anyone is dispatched.
Neighbors who called Ray
5.0
Rated by Puget Sound homeowners
“Had a tree fall on my roof, nightmare situation but Ray helped out more than Allstate ever did!”

Daniel Grabstein
Seattle, WA · Google
“Our water heater let go at 11pm and Ray answered his own phone on the second ring. Crew was in the driveway inside the hour with extractors. He walked me through the insurance claim line by line and we were dry in five days.”

Megan Ellsworth
Lynnwood, WA · Google
“Supply line burst under the kitchen sink while we were out of town. Ray found water two rooms away with an infrared camera that nobody else would have caught. Saved us from a mold problem, no question.”

Marcus Whitfield
Bothell, WA · Google
“What I appreciated most was how little they tore out. Other companies wanted to gut the whole basement. Ray dried it in place, documented every reading, and the insurance adjuster accepted it without a fight.”

Grace Tanaka
Mill Creek, WA · Google
“Sewage backup in the downstairs bath — awful. They showed up in full gear, sealed it off, sanitized everything and the smell was completely gone. Ray checked in on us for a week after. Genuinely kind people.”

Alicia Moreno
Edmonds, WA · Google
“Christmas morning, dishwasher line split, water under the whole kitchen floor. Ray picked up on a holiday and was here in 45 minutes. Who does that? He never once talked about money until the claim was already approved.”

Brett Callahan
Everett, WA · Google
“Our crawl space had standing water for who knows how long. Ray crawled under there himself with a light, showed me photos of every joist, and explained what was salvageable. Zero pressure, zero upselling.”

Linda Nakamura
Shoreline, WA · Google
“Upstairs toilet overflowed into the ceiling below. They had containment up in twenty minutes and the drying equipment running before I finished making coffee. Daily readings emailed to me and to the adjuster.”

Diego Ramirez
Kirkland, WA · Google
“I am 71 and I was panicking. Ray talked me down on the phone, told me exactly which valve to shut off, and stayed on the line until he pulled into the driveway. He treated my house like it was his mother's.”

Carol Whitby
Mountlake Terrace, WA · Google
“Small kitchen fire, smoke through the entire house. The odor was gone completely — not covered up, gone. They cleaned the ducts, sealed what needed sealing, and coordinated the rebuild with a contractor they trusted.”

Renée Adjei
Bellevue, WA · Google
Service area
From Stanwood to Federal Way, Camano Island to North Bend. If you are inside this footprint, we are typically at your door in under an hour.
Fire & Smoke Damage questions
If yours is not here, call Ray. He answers his own phone, 24 hours a day.
Not until the structure and air are cleared. Call us before you start moving anything — handling soot wrong can drive it permanently into finishes.
Yes. Emergency board-up and tarping are part of the first visit, 24 hours a day.
Yes, when residue is removed at the source and remaining surfaces are sealed. We do not hand a house back that still smells like the fire.
We restore, clean and deodorize, and coordinate rebuild work with general contractors we have worked beside for years so you are not managing five phone numbers.
Straight answers
If yours isn't here, just call. Ray would rather talk you through it than have you guess.
No — call us right away at (206) 856-3173. You have full rights to stop the progression of water without waiting for an estimate. An estimate is only required by insurance for putting the house back together. Delaying can actually work against your claim: carriers can find a homeowner negligent for knowing about water and not acting.
In most cases we are on site within an hour, anywhere in the greater Puget Sound area. We answer 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year.
Most sudden-loss water damage is covered. We use Xactimate — the same pricing structure the insurance industry uses — and in most cases we bill your carrier directly instead of you. If you have no insurance, we will work with you.
Most water damage situations dry within five to seven days, often faster. We monitor moisture daily and document readings so nothing gets closed up while it is still wet.
Only what genuinely has to come out. We specialize in minimal-disruption drying techniques and dry in place wherever the materials allow. Category 3 (contaminated) losses are different — porous materials there must be removed for health reasons.
That is the single biggest mistake homeowners make. Water travels, and most water damage is not visible to the naked eye. We bring infrared cameras and moisture detection equipment to find it behind surfaces before it becomes mold.
Mold can begin growing in as little as five days after a water loss. If growth has already started, it needs professional remediation — we will assess it and tell you honestly what you are dealing with.
We work with several trusted general contractors across the area and can recommend the right one for your situation once the structure is dry.
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Open 24 hours — every day of the year · Alderwood Manor, Washington · 20+ years serving the Puget Sound