What if a Fire Breaks Out Overnight?

10/30/2020 (Permalink)

Fire damage to your home is terrifying regardless of the time of day or night. No matter the time SERVPRO is always here to help you Jamestown.

24-Hour Fire Damage Restoration is Available – Call SERVPRO to Have a Crew Sent to Your Jamestown Home

It is essential that you ensure you and your family are safe once you experience a fire in your Jamestown home. To give you additional peace of mind at this time, know that SERVPRO has you covered when it comes to all cleanup and restoration of your home. We have fire and smoke restoration technicians (FSRT) on our team that helps you to ensure everything gets restored to pre-fire conditions. We are available around the clock, seven days a week, and we are Faster to Any Size Disaster. Hiring us to handle your restoration gets you proven on-site cleaning methods along with industrial-grade equipment and skilled controlled demolition services.

Can You Clean All My Belongings?

The idea of losing any of your personal belongings to fire damage in Jamestown is devastating. While a house fire is sometimes unavoidable, we work fast to salvage whatever possible. Our IICRC-certified technicians have the right training to handle our advanced technology to restore rather than replace whenever possible.

In many situations, our team can clean your fire-damaged contents on-site. However, there may be times when we have to remove them using our pack-out services for detailed cleaning off-site. We often bring items to our warehouse to handle extensive soot, smoke, odors, and damage. 

Taking a closer look at cleaning, we have a wide variety of strategies that allow our technicians to remove soiling and odors from your household contents, such as:

• Chemical Agents – Emulsion often gets used when trying to eliminate stubborn residues. The chemical agents that we have in our arsenal work by protecting the surface while facilitating the removal of smoke and soot residue using pressurized water. 
• Agitation – For loosening soil buildup on surfaces, our team will sometimes use varying degrees of agitation. Methods involving dusting or steel wool work in terms of light, medium, or heavy agitation.
• Deodorizers – Smoke damage often goes beyond the zone where the fire took place. We utilize a broad range of EPA-registered products for odor removal along with advanced equipment to help neutralize odorous particles, including thermal fogging machines, hydroxyl machinery, air scrubbers, and ozone generators.

There is Moisture Left from Putting Out the Flames, Now What?

When handling the fire damage, full restoration measures must also include moisture control and water removal. Mold, odors, and moisture are common culprits for secondary damage. These elements not only make the process more time consuming but also costly and pose potential health threats. SERVPRO enlists the help of our moisture detection technology to locate and eradicate any areas of hidden moisture. 

Important points to keep in mind:

• Mold spores multiply rapidly within just 24 to 72 hours after moisture levels increase within your Jamestown home.
• While every household contains some mold spores, and they remain dormant until the ultimate conditions arise. Once materials get soaked from the water or chemicals used to douse flames, they become a breeding ground for mold and mildew.
• SERVPRO takes time to go through each area surrounding the loss zone to locate moisture, including spaces behind baseboards, under your flooring, and behind walls.
• Once all areas are dry and thoroughly cleaned, we apply EPA-certified antimicrobial solutions to inhibit mold growth.

Will All Traces of Smoke Get Eliminated?

Smoke odors after a fire become an understandable worry of most homeowners. Any smoke or soot left behind turns into a constant reminder of the event while also leading to further damage due to corrosion and discoloration of some surface areas. When smoke particles make their way into your ductwork, you run the risk of foul odors sprouting up whenever your heating or cooling gets used. SERVPRO technicians sometimes use special sealants and techniques to treat your HVAC system so that this does not happen. 

Whenever particles are present yet invisible to the naked eye, our team formulates a multi-layer deodorization approach. We use chemical deodorants with our thermal fogging equipment to bind to odor molecules for easier removal. Air scrubber technology is also convenient for pulling particulates from the air to filter through the onboard HEPA filter.

What About Structural Concerns?

When you have a house fire, it is natural to become concerned about structural integrity. Our crew enters the home and begins inspecting all structural elements to ensure structural integrity and safety. For any areas that call for further attention, we use controlled demolition and stabilization measures to bring your home back to preloss condition. Some of the areas that we address beyond structural concerns include:

• Drywall removal
• Carpet repair and installation
• Flooring repair or replacement
• HVAC services
• Plumbing 
• Board-up and tarping
• Painting, and more

SERVPRO of Jamestown/Olean is available 24 hours a day to ensure you have the reliable fire damage restoration you need. Call (716) 338-4901 to have a crew deployed to your location!