Fire Damage In Your Jamestown Home

7/20/2022 (Permalink)

The presence of hazardous soot and smoke residues throughout a home can be a substantial obstacle for homeowners to face.

Pre-Cleaning Practices for Fire-Damaged Jamestown Homes

While it is critical to begin restoration and cleaning in your Jamestown home, inappropriate cleaning tactics can result in more considerable damages, staining, and deterioration. Identifying the best approach is critical for the entire mitigation and restoration process, and pre-cleaning techniques can make a dramatic difference in these recovery tactics to reduce the overall loss in your home after a fire incident.

Because of how widespread and threatening fire damage in Jamestown homes can be, our SERVPRO professionals work quickly to establish containment and perimeters to reduce the spread of soot, smoke, odors, and other debris to new areas of the property. Residues that have come to rest on contents and exposed surfaces require pre-treatments and potent cleaning products to remove successfully.

Among the most common forms of pre-cleaning and preparation for intricate soot removal or smoke residue clearing is the use of dry vacuums. In many situations, debris settles on surfaces and can form a thick barrier between the open air and the surface of the hosting material. Vacuums can help to lift much of this debris away, leaving a much less formidable layer of soot residue to clean with other techniques. Agitative cleaning practices might also include brushing and compressed air to unseat a layer of soot residue.

Pre-treatments on thick residues can also prove beneficial when it is possible to restore the affected material. We have chemical agents that can work to emulsify oily soils and soot to rinse away with pressurized water or wiping, depending on the situation. When it is not possible to slow the progression of acidic soot down in your home, however, controlled demolition by our in-house residential contractors might be the only suitable solution remaining.

The presence of hazardous soot and smoke residues throughout a home can be a substantial obstacle for homeowners. With the experience and potent cleaning products available to our SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean team, we can make fire losses “Like it never even happened.” Give us a call at (716) 338-4901.