We Act Fast In Easton After A Fire

12/13/2019 (Permalink)

We have the training, fire damage experience, and state-of-the-art equipment to restore your home to pre-damage condition.

Fire Damage Cleanup in Your Easton Residence Calls for Expert Restoration Techniques

If you have even seen a building burning down, you know the destruction that a fire leaves in its wake. Unfortunately, even after putting out the flames, smoke residues and associated smells can linger in a house for many days. This means that while trying to restore your residence, you could be dealing with the stench. Smoke can easily seep into the wood, drywall, and textiles.

When the smoke settles on a surface as a residue, it is called soot, and it can coat a wide range of materials, causing corrosion and discoloration. SERVPRO can help you stop further fire damage in your Easton residence. Our restorers can guide you through the restoration process. We can clean up your property and restorable contents to remove ash, smoke residues, water from firefighting efforts, and malodors.

We can use our experience to choose the restoration methods that can provide the desired results. Various factors determine the severity of fire damage. These factors include:

The size of the fire: If the flames were significant, there might be a substantial amount of smoke residues to clean up.

Room size: In small rooms, the smoke odor is likely to be intense and highly concentrated. 

Time of exposure: If your property was exposed to smoke for an extended time, the residues could be more significant.

Odor type: The severity and consistency of odors often depend on the structures and contents that burned during the fire.

Our Smoke and Fire Damage Restoration Technicians (FSRTs) can clean up the smoke residues using tools like dry cleaning sponges.  We can use these sponges to eradicate light to medium soils that are not greasy. Apart from cleaning up soot, our restoration experts can take steps to mitigate the contamination that gaseous chemicals cause. The typical chemical components that cause contamination are the semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) and the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that cause smoke smells.

Cleaning up smoke particles may not remove VOCs and SVOCs. These compounds are also not the same in every fire, and they usually change based on the fuel source, which could be structural framing, plastics, paint, rubber, or fabrics. We can use advanced equipment to identify these compounds.

By identifying volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, we can understand the substances that burned during the fire and complete the restoration process correctly. This knowledge also enables us to deal with the challenges of eliminating specific smoke residues. For instance, protein fires produce minimal visible smoke residues. Underestimating the destruction is easy if your home does not have the black residues linked with typical fires. The layer of film that protein fires produce can create a strong smell. The protein residues can also penetrate items like clothes, drapes, drawers, and cabinets. Our SERVPRO crew can clean the affected surfaces and materials thoroughly to remove the layer of film and odor.

After the unfortunate event of fire damage in your home, call SERVPRO of The Bridgewaters for professional fire restoration services. Our helpline is (508) 697-5439.

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