Tips for Performing Fire and Smoke Cleanup in Jamestown

2/4/2022 (Permalink)

Smoke and soot byproducts can spread throughout your home after a fire and settle on the furniture, ceiling, and walls, among other surfaces.

SERVPRO Can Help You to Perform Fire and Smoke Cleanup in Jamestown

After putting out a fire, homeowners may not give much thought to the effects of soot and smoke. However, you should be worried about it because it can cause as much damage as the fire itself. Smoke and soot byproducts can spread throughout your home after a fire and settle on the furniture, ceiling, and walls, among other surfaces. They can cause tarnishing and the etching of affected materials.

Efficient fire and smoke cleanup in your Jamestown residence from a company like SERVPRO can prevent the corrosion of metals. Soot residue is acidic, and it can ruin metal pipes, doorknobs, and kitchen appliances. Soot can also get pulled through registers and air vents to flow throughout the HVAC system. If left there, soot residues may corrode the air ducts, leading to system failure or increasing fire risk. Our SERVPRO crew can inspect the HVAC system to check for residues. We can also take the following actions to restore your property:

• Water removal and drying
• Soot and smoke removal
• Odor removal
• Rebuilding

Our SERVPRO team can use different air movers to generate an airflow velocity from 1,000 to 3,000 cubic feet of air per minute. We use this air movement for general ventilation to remove fumes, odors, and vapors from a building. Air movers perform several deodorization functions, and we commonly use them to ventilate a house after thermal fogging.

Thermal foggers vaporize petroleum-based or solvent-based deodorizers to generate a fog or smoke of minute particles. The particles that thermal foggers create range in size from as small as half a micron to as large as 25 microns. The particles make a fog, which appears like the smoke a fire produces, enabling the deodorizers to interact more effectively with odor-causing residues.

Our SERVPRO technicians can exchange the air in a building that has been thermal-fogged for deodorization needs forty times using air movers to ensure the complete removal of all residues and vapors.

When you need fire and smoke cleanup services, call SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean at (716) 338-4901. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster.