Typical Damages to Contents After Levittown Fire Damage

12/19/2022 (Permalink)

The first step to resolving fire damage is calling your local trained professionals at SERVPRO.

Cleaning Fire Damage to Contents

The fast response of SERVPRO professionals after a fire can assuredly get mitigation started. We urgently begin emergency services to give your home and its contents the best chance at restoration over replacement. Some of the focuses of the initial efforts of responding technicians include:

• Air filtering
• Debris cleanup
• Surface cleaning
• Water extraction

Soot Soiling

Soot soils can be one of the most direct types of fire damage in Levittown homes, especially to the contents involved. Surface cleaning is a priority of responding SERVPRO professionals, including several products like solvents, detergents, and cleaners, to increase alkalinity. Alkaline cleaners can balance the pH of corrosive soot particles to make them easier to clean and less destructive to the surfaces where it lands. 

Removing Trapped Odors

The combustion process can generate strong smells that overwhelm affected areas of your house. Any contents in these portions of the property are likely to absorb these fire-loss odors if they are porous enough. Soft materials like clothing, furniture fabrics, and plushes can hold malodors long beyond the mitigation phase. On-site, we can use thermal fogging techniques and ozone to impact trapped smells directly.

Water Damage After a Fire 

Another aspect of fire loss incidents that can have a dire impact on the contents of your home is the water used to extinguish the flames. Firefighting efforts often use a substantial amount of water to overcome an active fire, which can overwhelm and damage impacted materials and contents of the residence. We must work on drying out affected fabrics and upholstery before greater damage results. 

Fire damage can rapidly spread and threaten your home, especially with the harm it can do to the contents of your residence. Protecting your personal belongings after a fire combines on-site and off-site cleaning and restoration by our SERVPRO of Levittown, Bethpage professionals. When disasters strike, call us at (516) 261-9600.