SERVPRO Will Assist with Your Residential Fire Damage

9/29/2021 (Permalink)

Candles can bring beauty and scent to your home. Homes can also be damaged by fire if candles are not kept in a safe place.

Candles can bring beauty and scent to your home. Homes can also be damaged by fire if candles are not kept in a safe place.

After leaving a candle in the room and blowing a piece of paper into it, a homeowner required assistance to put out the fire. Although firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, smoke damage was extensive.

Take Charred Items Out

The candle's contents were too damaged to be cleaned in the room, so they had to be removed. Without homeowner consent or an adjuster, the techs won't dispose of any items found in the room. This allows property owners to know the status of restoration work and ensures SERVPRO® is covered by their insurance.

Test Before You Clean

It is important to test any smoke residues in a room before you attempt to clean them. The amount of smoke residue will depend on the temperature of the fire and the items burned. So, both dry smoke and moist smoke may be present in the same room.

Techs use dry cleaning sponges to remove dried smoke from walls and other painted surfaces. To remove wet smoke from walls and other painted surfaces, solvents are required.

Bedroom Odor Control

It is essential to get rid of charred materials. This will reduce the stench of fire. When a fire is started, hot air expands and pushes the odorous smoke out of porous materials. Thermal fogging is one way to get rid of the odors.

Duct Inspection

The fire was contained to the bedroom, but the family used the HVAC. High potential for soot to get through the conduit work was there. SERVPRO® technicians cleaned the ducts to eliminate any lingering odors.

SERVPRO® returns properties that have been damaged by fire back to their original condition.