Is smoke damage permanent in my home?

6/1/2021 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Technicians Can Remove Stubborn Smoke Residues and Odors from the Contents and Structure of your Home.

What is smoke damage?

When a fire breaks out in your home, rapidly combusting materials release toxins into the surrounding area in the form of smoke. This smoke can have a composition, including carbon, synthetic chemicals, or ashes. In high-pressure fires, these smoke particles can force themselves into surfaces like walls, ceilings, and furnishings. Once smoke cools, it may drop to the floor below, causing a layer of ash, which can cause further harm to your property when contacting with carpet fibers. Surfaces throughout your home may show blackening, or there may be noticeable smokey odors that last long after the initial fire has been brought under control. Our technicians are trained specially to remove soiling and bring any residual odors under control without further harming the structure and contents of your home.

How is smoke removed without damaging surfaces?

Smoke can bond with surfaces making fire damage restoration in your home challenging. Technicians need to decide to remove smoke from surfaces using either agitation of the surface or with chemical components. Agitation can include mechanical cleaning methods like air-whips. Air whips rapidly rotate rubber whips against the surface to dislodge soots and make them removable. Chemical solvents suspend bonded soot into the solvent solution. The suspended soots can then be rinsed away along with the solvent. SERVPRO can perform repainting of some surfaces if solvents damage paintwork during the removal process. We aim to leave your home in a preloss condition following a property fire.

What other methods do you perform during fire cleanup?

- Debris removal
- Odor control
- Contents cleaning

If a house fire affects your home with stubborn soot and odors, contact SERVPRO of Marshfield/Rockland at 781-834-7707.