We built Meridian Smoke Damage around the New Orleans properties that got burned twice — once by the fire, once by a slow restoration company. Our crews are staged locally specifically to close that gap.
Call +1-866-484-1409Meridian Smoke Damage isn't a franchise call center that farms your job out to a subcontractor you've never met. Our New Orleans technicians show up, do the assessment, and stay on the job through reconstruction.
Local experience in 70139 70130 70131 70148 70114 70115 70116 70117 70112 70113 70118 70119 70129 70128 70125 70124 70127 70126 70122 70163 70142 70145 70146 70150 70151 70152 70153 70154 70156 70157 70158 70159 70160 70161 70162 70164 70165 70166 70167 70170 70172 70174 70175 70176 70177 70178 70179 70181 70182 70184 70185 70186 70187 70189 70190 70195 means our estimators aren't guessing — they've seen how New Orleans's building department handles fire-damage permits dozens of times before.
Meridian Smoke Damage is bonded and insured to operate in New Orleans, LA, and our New Orleans jobs always start with a signed, itemized scope rather than a verbal ballpark.
Full coverage on every job we run in New Orleans, LA.
A real technician answers the New Orleans line, any hour.
Fire and smoke restoration credentials, not general labor.
Documentation built to match what New Orleans, LA carriers expect.
We also keep a running photo log for every New Orleans job — before, during, and after — so there's never a dispute over what condition the property was in at each stage.

An odor that lingers past 24 hours usually means particles have settled deep into porous surfaces, not just the air.
Streaking near air returns means soot circulated through the whole HVAC system, not just the room that burned.
Cabinetry and flooring can swell within 24 hours once firefighting water sits without proper extraction.
Untreated smoke residue starts pitting metal surfaces surprisingly fast — often inside 48 hours.
Coughing or headaches that persist inside the home often trace back to fine soot particles still circulating in the air.
Waiting too long to document damage is one of the more common reasons New Orleans, LA fire claims get partially denied.
Every one of these problems compounds the longer they sit untreated — soot turns more corrosive, odor works deeper into materials, and insurance documentation gets harder to establish after the fact.
First priority is always stopping additional loss: boarding openings, tarping the roof, and pulling standing water.
Thermal fogging paired with HEPA filtration clears residue that surface cleaning alone would leave behind.
We plan around your operating hours wherever the damage allows partial reopening during the rebuild.
We rebuild to New Orleans, LA code, with inspections scheduled as part of the project timeline, not an afterthought.
Persistent odor after a New Orleans fire usually needs equipment-based treatment, which is what this service actually is.
We photograph and log every item before pack-out, then clean or store it depending on what's actually salvageable.
A real person answers and gets the crew moving right away.
Structural safety, moisture, and soot readings get documented before any work starts.
Work follows the plan you signed off on, with daily photo updates.
Final walkthrough happens before we call the New Orleans job complete.
No verbal ballpark that turns into a different invoice later.
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Paperwork built to match what New Orleans, LA carriers actually ask for.
If part of the scope isn't right, we return and fix it at no extra cost.

Every New Orleans job carries the same written guarantee regardless of size — if our work doesn't match the documented scope, fixing it is on us.
The number we quote after inspection is the number on the final invoice, barring written change orders you approve.
Reconstruction work is covered against defects for a full year after completion.
You won't be bounced between five different subcontractors on this job.
A guarantee is only as good as the scope it's attached to, which is why we spend extra time getting the initial New Orleans inspection right rather than rushing to a number.
Our garage caught fire from an old freezer around 2am, and someone from Meridian Smoke Damage was already boarding up the side door before the fire department finished their report. — Homeowner, New Orleans
We'd tried two other cleaning companies on the smoke smell in our rental with no luck. Meridian Smoke Damage's fogging treatment actually solved it. — Landlord, New Orleans
They dealt with our adjuster directly so we didn't have to play messenger between two companies. Reconstruction took about five weeks and the trim work came out better than the original. — Homeowner, New Orleans, LA
Our New Orleans bakery had a fire in the back kitchen on a Sunday morning. Meridian Smoke Damage phased the rebuild so the front counter reopened within ten days. — Business Owner, New Orleans
Pricing was in writing from the first visit, and the final invoice matched it exactly — no last-minute line items we hadn't already approved. — Homeowner, New Orleans, LA
Smoke had drifted into our New Orleans unit from a fire two doors down, and Meridian Smoke Damage still came out and treated the whole space even though we never had flames ourselves. — Tenant, New Orleans
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Always. No work starts on your New Orleans property until you've approved a written number.
Emergency stabilization services run 24/7, including holidays.
We can speak with your adjuster directly and answer their questions on your behalf.
Light odor can clear in a day; whole-house fogging with HVAC treatment often runs two to four days.
It depends on the material — we inspect item by item before deciding what's salvageable.
Yes, we're fully licensed and insured for fire mitigation and reconstruction throughout New Orleans, LA.
Not always — a contained fire may only mean staying out of the affected rooms.
As soon as the fire department releases the property — delay lets soot and odor set in deeper.
Mitigation stabilizes the property — extraction, board-up, soot removal — while reconstruction rebuilds what's damaged.
Yes, we take on everything from a single scorched cabinet to a full New Orleans teardown-and-rebuild.
Yes, smoke frequently migrates through shared HVAC systems or hallways into adjacent New Orleans units.
Yes, every job comes with a written guarantee — if something in the scope isn't right, we return and fix it at no charge.
Our New Orleans coverage extends into the surrounding zip codes, and we can call in additional New Orleans, LA crews during major storm or fire events that stretch local capacity.
We can typically confirm same-day availability for any address inside this coverage radius — call and we'll tell you honestly whether we can reach you today.
