How SERVPRO Can Help You Come Back From Smoke Damage in Your Bearden Home

11/9/2018 (Permalink)

Our priority is to take care of your home and restore the smoke damage "Like it never even happened."

Bearden's Fire Damage Restoration Team Talks About Problems Associated With Smoke

If a fire ever starts inside your Bearden residence, both the heat and smoke created by it can cause you problems. Flames can burn your contents and cause fire damage to your building materials. Smoke can also cause many issues throughout your home as it floats through the building. The effects of smoke can easily be seen after something burns in the form of charred objects or discolored surfaces. During most fire damage restoration projects, dealing with smoke-related issues is a large part of the process.

Shortly after the burn takes place, the effects of smoke can be seen on your walls, ceilings, and other surfaces. During any fire damage project in Bearden, our SERVPRO team inspects your entire home looking for stains or discoloration due to smoke. As soon as we receive your call, we send our emergency response team out to inspect your home and to write up an initial estimate for you and your insurance company. During the first estimate, we walk around your property and determine what we think will need to be replaced and what we think we can repair with cleaning or refinishing techniques.

Smoke consists of substances that did not fully combust or turn into gas with the application of heat. Since fires burn different fuels at a variety of different temperatures the composition of the partially combusted particles varies. Fires that burn fast, hot and have plenty of oxygen put out a dry smoke that is the easiest to clean and can be wiped off of most surfaces. Blazes that burn slowly at lower temperatures and are oxygen starved release wet smoke that can adhere well to surfaces and be extremely difficult to clean.

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Smoke can also penetrate deep into porous materials causing them to produce foul, burnt aromas. Sometimes the smell of smoke and burnt substances can linger in the building after all charred items get removed, and soot residues are cleaned. In these cases, deodorization techniques such as ULV fogging or using an ozone machine get utilized. If you ever suffer a structure fire on your property, call SERVPRO of Rocky Hill / Sequoyah Hills / South Knoxville at (865) 862-8907 24 hours a day.

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