Cleaning The Walls And The Air After Fort Lauderdale Fire Damage

1/3/2018 (Permalink)

The most overwhelming thing about the fire damage to your Fort Lauderdale home is where to begin.

Cleaning The Walls And The Air After A Fire

Once the fire trucks have pulled away from your Fort Lauderdale home, you are likely stressed and confused about what to do next. The fire affected several rooms of your home before it could get successfully extinguished, and now the soot and odor are the two most prominent problems that you are facing. Attempting to repair and restore the damages on your own can be overwhelming, and most in your same position have chosen to seek professional restoration services.

The most overwhelming thing about the fire damage to your Fort Lauderdale home is where to begin. Fortunately, by contacting us at SERVPRO, we can walk you through our entire restoration process to put you at ease as we move forward. Based on your priorities, our experienced and certified restoration specialists start to put your home back to its preloss condition.

Soot is often a very abrasive by-product of a recent fire, and it can be widespread throughout your home (even affecting areas that were not directly impacted by the flames). Cleaning these areas is an important step and one that involves specialty equipment like scrubbers and rollers. Depending on the severity of the damages from the smoke and soot, out SERVPRO team chooses between wet and dry cleaning of the surfaces of your home, wet cleaning getting reserved for some of the heaviest of residues. Ideally, the process is intended to restore the walls back to their original condition. If that is not possible, the process prepares your walls for primer and paint.

Odor removal is a commonly overlooked aspect of fire restoration, as many homeowners in the throes of this stressful time have a hard time focusing on anything but the immediate damage they can see. Fire damage can create odors that are noxious or that are at the very least difficult to stomach for days at a time. Using HEPA filtration systems and foggers, our experienced team can nullify odor molecules entirely in the affected area, leaving behind no trace of the former foul scent.

These are just some of the processes involved in our extensive fire restoration process. If you are dealing with a recent fire, contact SERVPRO of Ft. Lauderdale South. You can reach us 24/7 at (954) 776-2000.

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