Denver & the Front Range · Fire & Soot Removal
Dry ice blasting takes char and soot off framing, masonry, and decking without adding a drop of water to a structure that just survived a fire. What can be saved stays — cleaned back to sound material and documented for the claim file.
Every assessment includes a contained test patch when conditions allow — watch one square foot of blackened framing come back before you commit a dollar.
Why dry ice after a fire
Soot isn't a surface stain — it drives into char and open grain where wipes and chem sponges stop. Getting it out, dry, is the whole job.
Fire opens the grain of wood and the pores of masonry, and soot follows it in. Wiping and sponging clean the surface layer; the contamination — and the odor source — stays in the material underneath.
Dry ice removes char and soot without adding water to a building that just survived a fire. No pressure-wash soak, no drying-out phase, no trading a fire problem for a moisture problem.
Sealing over soot locks the smell source into the structure. Removing the soot first — instead of encapsulating it — is what gives odor treatment a real chance to hold.
Where it applies
If it's structurally sound under the black, blasting can usually bring it back to clean material.
Char and soot off studs, joists, and rafters — down to sound wood the inspector and the sealer can actually work with.
Smoke staining lifted out of brick and block without acid washes or water driven into the mortar.
Roof decking and subfloor cleaned in place instead of torn out — often the difference between a repair and a rebuild.
Exposed beams and heavy timber restored without sanding away the profile — the detail work that made them worth exposing.
Walls, ceilings, and slabs in garages and basements — soot off the surface without slurry to contain or haul.
Soot around equipment, piping, and panels — cleaned dry, with no water or chemicals near the electrics.
Works with your GC
Fire restoration is a chain — demo, clean, treat, rebuild. We slot into it as the cleaning link, coordinate with your contractor's schedule, and hand the site back on time.
Written scope and invoice broken out by area and surface, so the soot phase reads clean in the claim — no lump sums for the adjuster to question.
Before-and-after documentation of every blasted surface, formatted to slot straight into the claim file and support what the invoice says.
Sequencing matters: we blast, then the GC's sealer and odor treatment go onto clean substrate — where they bond, cover, and actually last.
Grease fire in a commercial kitchen? That's its own job — see commercial kitchen cleaning. And if the water that put the fire out has since grown mold, see mold remediation — we handle both phases under one containment plan.
Tell us what's still standing. Most assessments happen within the week — photos speed everything up.
