What Kinds of Residues Need Restoration Services in My Redding Home After Fire Damage?

9/27/2020 (Permalink)

Soiling on Surfaces Due to Smoke and Soot Is Very Different from Ordinary Dirt and Grime, but SERVPRO Has Strategies and Solutions for Delivering Fire Restoration to Redding Residents

The mud tracked into your Redding home, or the dust floating on air currents before settling are both reasonably easy to clean up. With the addition of equipment like vacuums, dusters, and mops, consumer products, and supplies clear away the bulk of the day-to-day dirt. The same cannot be said of the residues coating surfaces after a household fire.

What Makes Up the Residues that Coat Surfaces After a Fire?

The soot that fire restoration targets in Redding homes comprises incompletely combusted building materials and household contents. Depending on the type of materials burned, professionals categorize the coatings as:

• Dry Soot

Produced by hot, fast-spreading burning of paper and wood, this type of soot is loose and ashy, responding well to mechanical cleanup methods like dusting, brushing, dry sponging, blowing pressurized air, and vacuuming.

• Wet Soot

Produced when plastics, rubber, wiring, textiles, and padding smolder, this type of soot sticks to surfaces, requiring trained technicians to match the soiling (water or oil-based) with like-based cleaning agents. Spray and wipe or careful agitation is frequently necessary to dislodge the residues from surfaces.

• Protein-Based Soot

Produced during kitchen fires, this coating is thinly spread, transparent, and tenaciously adhered. It is made up of dehydrated foods, grease, and oils, incredibly malodorous because of the rancidity reached when proteins react to high temperatures. SERVPRO technicians often select solvents and abrasives to break the bond between the soiling and the surfaces affected.

Depend on the experts at SERVPRO of Danbury / Ridgefield to complete fire restoration successfully, transforming the damaged surfaces and spaces to preloss condition, “Like it never even happened.” Call us 24/7 at (203) 791-0920, so we can get to work for the best outcomes.

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