How to Ensure Thorough Cleanup during Fire Restoration in Jamestown

5/1/2023 (Permalink)

The first step to resolving fire damage is calling your local trained professionals at SERVPRO.

Techniques That Help With Smoke Damage Cleanup in Jamestown

You can prevent or prepare to address a fire event in several ways, such as installing fire alarms and keeping heaters at least three feet away from items that can catch on fire. However, there is no sure way to prevent it from happening. Taking the appropriate action in the aftermath can mean the difference between saving your home and losing it to damage. Quick mitigation and fire damage restoration are essential to save your Jamestown home from additional damage.

Fire restoration in Jamestown homes requires the services of a professional. For example, smoke odor can travel through your home’s air ducts and emit recurring smells for days after the fire damage. Controlling or removing odor can be challenging and may take multiple procedures involving different products and equipment devices to get the desired results. SERVPRO crews may alleviate the foul odors through fogging, direct spraying, and neutralization with activated oxygen, depending on the situation. Our technicians know how to deal with the damage exacted by smoke and fire on different surfaces and materials. We have access to many fire damage cleanup equipment facilitating different cleaning methods.

Different cleaning methods:

• Ultrasonic cleaning
• Foam cleaning
• Abrasive cleaning
• Heavy-duty chemical agents
• Soda or dry-ice blasting

Smoke Residue Removal

Smoke residues usually bond with the surfaces they contact. Our crews use different cleaning processes to dislodge and carry residue particles away from various surfaces. We use a HEPA vacuum before cleaning with detergent to capture and remove fine particles from surfaces. The vacuum also removes fine residues from cracks and crevices, which may be impossible to reach with wet cleaning.

Soot and smoke can accumulate on surfaces and items such as glassware. The residues can be difficult to remove using conventional cleaning techniques. Our crews use the ultrasonic method to efficiently clean glass and other non-porous materials. The method uses high-frequency sound waves that result in vapor bubbles, and the energy produced releases soils from the item.

Other actions that aid in soot removal:

• Absorption
• Surface cleaning technique
• Saturation technique

SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean understands the devastating effect of fire and provides efficient fire restoration and cleanup service. Call us at (716) 338-4901. We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster.