Pensacola Properties, Fire Loss, Smoke, and Odors, What to Do? Call SERVPRO!

1/28/2020 (Permalink)

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Fire Damage Mitigation in Pensacola Involves Cleaning Various Structural Components

Whenever flames ignite inside your Pensacola home, the smoke getting released can circulate throughout your entire structure. When this smoke contacts the cooler surfaces of your contents and building materials, it can adhere to items and cause extensive fire damage. Residues can be present anywhere air flows inside your building, including your walls, ceilings, cabinets, and attic. Proper restoration often involves cleaning deposits from these various structural components.

Any time our SERVPRO team works towards mitigating your fire damage in Pensacola, we start by deciding the best way to clean everything inside your home that got negatively affected by smoke or soot residues. Walls and ceilings often get cleaned first using dry or wet methods depending on the type of material and the kind of smoke present. Next, we focus on other structural components that could take different approaches to clean and restore. A technician's most useful tool is a vacuum cleaner.

Since many fires start inside kitchens, our SERVPRO technicians often find themselves tasked with cleaning soot residues off of your kitchen cabinets. The techniques vary depending on whether the wood making up the cabinets is finished or unfinished. Finished surfaces can often be cleaned by using water-based detergents and a cloth. Unfinished wood, such as the surfaces inside your cabinets, is often better cleaned with using dry methods such as dusting or cleaning with a dry sponge. Whenever we clean your cabinets, we often first remove all of the metal hardware from the surfaces so that we can clean underneath it where residues can get trapped.

Lighting fixtures are another structural component that also requires cleaning. We usually remove lighting fixtures and clean them while we are cleaning your ceilings. Fixtures like chandeliers often require special care, which can include hand cleaning or steaming.

It is also possible that smoke residues can find their way into your attic. Attics can often present challenges to the restorer because the surfaces usually contain unfinished wood with irregularly shaped surfaces. Attics can also contain insulation, which can be very difficult to clean.
 
If smoke residues exist inside your home after something burns, call SERVPRO of West Pensacola at (850) 469-1160 24 hours a day. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.