Are There Fire Damage Issues that Necessitate Hiring A Professional To Handle Fire Restoration?

9/24/2020 (Permalink)

Our fire damage experts can have your home back to its original state, “Like it never even happened”.

A Professional Team from SERVPRO Can Handle Fire Restoration at Your Montville Property, Preventing Many Simple Mistakes That Lead To Unnecessary Complications.

You probably think of hiring a professional fire restoration team as something to do because you do not have the means or time needed to handle the damage left at your Montville home. Sometimes, it is what you might consider simple aspects of restoration that make such a decision necessary.  

Which simple issues can complicate fire restoration at a Montville home?

• Moving around the house without taking protective measures
• Unplanned washing of walls and other surfaces
• Washing upholstery or carpets
• Failure to protect chrome and metallic items

Unrestricted movement by people around a fire-damaged property can change the situation by spreading soils around or impregnating them on materials such as upholstery, woodwork, and walls. When you handle restoration on your own, you might have a hard time controlling movements since friends and family may want to come over to see the damage and give you advice on what to do. When our SERVPRO team takes over the restoration of your property, we can limit unnecessary movements since we send a small team of technicians. We also erect barriers to control access to some areas.

Why would washing walls, carpets, and upholstery be problematic?

Ideally, cleaning the materials should help remove soils such as soot, restoring them to their preloss state. However, your actions can end up worsening the situation by:

• Setting soils
• Damaging material chemically or physically
• Spreading the soils

Removing soot from materials requires a proper understanding of its chemical composition so that you can use the right chemical agent to strip it off from the material. Using the wrong cleaning agent can set the soils or cause staining. Some chemicals can also damage the underlying material. Our SERVPRO technicians follow the directions provided on product labels when making a choice or applying the products. We also have specially formulated VOC compliant and readily biodegradable cleaning products.

SERVPRO of East Central Morris County can help you deal with simple or complex issues after a fire incident. Call us at (973) 887-9100 to help. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.