Three Circumstances That Can Impede Fire Damage Restoration in Durham

10/7/2019 (Permalink)

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Factors that Can Complicate Fire Damage Restoration in Your Durham Home

A house fire can be expensive, especially if your home is large and contains many valuable items. Every fire is unique based on its composition, cause, size, and residue. Some fires involve multiple and complex chemical reactions. The way these factors combine affects how we handle fire damage restoration.

Cleaning up your Durham home after fire damage is a multiphase process. It is crucial to start the process quickly to prevent further damage. Waiting for even a day can compound the cost and restoration time required. Some factors that can complicate the fire restoration process include:

There is a presence of flammable materials.

If your house has many wooden structures, textiles, combustible chemicals, and other materials that do not resist fire, the fire probably consumed many of them. Metal, concrete, and other fire-proof surfaces may not have sustained a lot of heat and flame damage. However, acidic soot residue can cause the metal to corrode or discolor.

The fire damage has affected several rooms or areas.

If gases, liquids, or easily combustible solids caused the fire, it might have affected several rooms. Smoke may also have traveled to different areas, including the attic. Cleaning the attic after fire damage is challenging since the surfaces are porous, making removal of residues difficult.

There is water damage besides fire damage.

Water damage might happen after a fire if the firefighters used gallons of water to extinguish it.

Fire damage restoration requires a systematic approach to reduce the stress on your part. Our SERVPRO team can assess your home and take the right steps to restore it to the preloss state. We can deal with the burned structures and contents and the smoke and water damage.

Understanding the kind of fire and residue produced from it is critical to creating a plan to restore your house. Whether your home has dry smoke, wet smoke, protein residues, fuel oil soot, or other chemical compounds, our team has the tools and experience to clean up the contents and structures property.

We choose the most suitable cleaning technique based on the affected surfaces. For instance, when removing residues from materials that can sustain damage if saturated with cleaning products, we use the spray and wipe technique. The spray and wipe technique is a wet cleaning process where we apply the cleaning product using a spray bottle. After spraying, our technicians use a clean white towel to wipe the surface. Another technique that our SERVPRO Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Technicians (FSRTs) can use is foam cleaning. It is suitable for cleaning upholstery fabrics that could shrink when damp or whose dyes are likely to bleed during cleaning.

Should you need fire and smoke damage restoration services in Gorman, Rougemont, or Bahama, call the team at SERVPRO of North Durham. We can make the fire loss appear “Like it never even happened.” Our helpline is (919) 467-0880.

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