Fire Damage Rebuilds, From Structural Repair to Move-Back Day
Licensed BC general contractor rebuilding fire-damaged homes and commercial spaces across the Lower Mainland, the Fraser Valley, and Vancouver Island. We take over where cleanup ends and stay until the claim is closed and the keys are back in your hand.
Cleanup Gets You to Zero. The Rebuild Gets You Home.
After a fire, two very different kinds of companies show up, and owners are rarely told the difference. Mitigation firms stabilize and clean. Rebuilding what the fire took requires a licensed general contractor. GP is the second kind.
What a mitigation company handles
- Board-up and emergency stabilization
- Smoke, soot, and odour cleanup
- Content packing and cleaning
- Water extraction from firefighting
- Demolition of unsalvageable material
What GP handles as your rebuild contractor
- Structural repair: framing, roof structure, load-bearing assemblies
- Building envelope: exterior walls, roofing, windows, weather barrier
- Full mechanical, electrical, and plumbing reinstatement
- Interior reconstruction and finish work, matched to pre-loss quality or better
- Permits, structural engineering, and municipal coordination
- Scope documentation and pricing worked directly with your adjuster
If a mitigation crew is already on site, good. We coordinate with them, then carry the project the rest of the way as one accountable contractor.
Fire Is Never Just Fire
Most fire losses involve four kinds of damage, and a scope that only counts the burn is a scope that will run short:
Flame damage.
The obvious loss: burned structure, finishes, and contents in the fire area itself.
Smoke and soot.
Travels far beyond the burn through wall cavities, ductwork, and attic spaces. Porous materials like wood, drywall, and fabric often need replacement, not cleaning, once contamination passes a threshold.
Heat damage.
Warped framing, compromised wiring insulation, delaminated finishes, and cracked glass in rooms the flames never reached.
Water damage.
Firefighting puts enormous volumes of water into a building. Saturated drywall, insulation, and subfloors frequently make up a large share of the final scope. Many fire claims are also water claims, and we scope both from day one.
Our first job on any fire loss is mapping all four layers before pricing anything, so the scope your insurer approves reflects the building's real condition.
Houses, Strata Buildings, Restaurants, and Retail
GP rebuilds fire losses on both sides of the market, because we build on both sides of the market.
Residential
Kitchen fires, electrical fires, chimney and fireplace losses, and full-structure rebuilds. We restore homes to the standard they were built to, and where owners want to fund upgrades during the rebuild, we price the betterment separately so the claim stays clean.
Commercial
Restaurant and commercial kitchen fires are their own discipline: hood and suppression systems, code-triggered upgrades, health authority requirements, and landlords and tenants with different policies covering different parts of the same space. We build restaurants and commercial interiors as a core service, so a fire rebuild in a tenanted space gets a contractor who already knows how these projects are put together and who covers what.
The Process
What the Road Back Actually Looks Like
01
The first 48 hours.
Emergency stabilization, site security, and documentation. Everything is photographed before anything moves. If mitigation is underway, we align with that crew so demolition decisions do not destroy evidence your claim needs.
02
Weeks one to four: scope and approval.
We map all four damage layers, build the line-item scope, and work it through with your adjuster and insurer. We coordinate regularly with independent adjusting firms, including Coast Claims, and with all major Canadian insurers. Engineering and permit applications start in parallel so approval delays do not stack.
03
The rebuild.
Structure first: framing, envelope, roof, verified by inspection. Then systems: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, including any code-required upgrades your policy provides for. Finishes last, matched to what was lost. Hidden damage found along the way is documented and submitted as a supplement, never buried.
04
Move-back and claim closure.
Final inspections, completion documentation for the insurer, and handover. The rebuild carries GP's lifetime workmanship warranty, with a direct warranty contact: PJ Saini, +1 (778) 891 9076, info@gpcontracting.ca.
- Licensed BC general contractor
- WorkSafeBC registered
- $5M general liability
- Lifetime workmanship warranty
- Insurance restoration since founding
- Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley & Vancouver Island
Part of our Insurance Restoration practice.
FAQ
Fire Rebuild Questions, Answered
The Fire Is Out. Now Get the Rebuild Right.
The decisions made in the first weeks after a fire, what gets demolished, what gets documented, and who prices the scope, shape everything that follows. Before you sign with anyone, a free scope review with GP tells you whether the claim in front of you actually covers the rebuild you need.