Fire damage can be the hardest thing for the people in your home or office ever have to deal with, especially when chemicals are involved. Plastics for one will attach to surfaces and melt into them causing damage that just can’t be fixed. Soot of all compositions will attach to just about anything including furniture, walls, a/c ducts, electronics, clothing, and appliances.
The key with fire damage is speed, the sooner you get a professional restoration team onsite the better chance you have to save your belongings. In many cases people will wait to hear back from their insurance company before hiring a restoration company. In some cases this will actually void your insurance policy because you didn’t do your due diligence to stop further damage.
Even a small kitchen fire can fill your home with materials that are hard to remove if the proper steps and solutions aren’t used. We have had many customers that have had fire or smoke damage in Sarasota and waited days to call us to help. In many of these cases the walls could have been cleaned without having to prime, repaint, and in some cases remove them. For that matter if the contents had been removed and cleaned quickly the smell of smoke might not have permeated into the fabric. Fabrics can be saved if gotten to quickly and treated correctly. Leaving anything with a permeable surface in a fire damaged area for very long will basically total the item. Clothing, mattresses, cloth or leather furniture, books, electronics, and many other items should be removed and cleaned as soon as they can be gotten to and removed from the area.
The other factor in fire damage is water and specifically how much the fire department used to put out the fire. In many cases drywall and other structural materials that even though not burned will still have been damaged by water. In these cases we not only have to clean, we have to dry out as well. The best thing to do if you have had a fire is call ServiceMaster SRQ. We will assess the situation and come up with a solid plan to return your home or business back to the way it was before the fire. We are here for you all day, every day of the year 941 377-2455.