Cleaning Fire Damage

12/23/2020 (Permalink)

Many aspects of a home get affected by a fire. If the fire was outside your home damage can still occur inside the home from soot and odor. If the fire was inside the home water damage from putting the fire out often occurs as well.

The process of restoring a home after a fire can feel overwhelming especially when you do not know everything involved. What is cleaned? How does it get cleaned?

What is Cleaned?

There are two parts to cleaning a house. The structure includes everything a house comes with when you buy it. And the contents, everything you buy to turn a house into your home. The structure consists of the walls, floor, ceiling, cabinets, counter, doors, lights, windows, and much more depending on the house. The contents are couches, beds, TVs, family photos, clothes, kitchen supplies, and anything you have that was not already nailed down when you got there.

How is it cleaned?

At SERVPRO of San Mateo, our certified technicians use advanced technology to restore your home. If the fire was inside of your home, we use moisture readers to find any water damage from putting the fire out. For odor, we use air scrubbers, ozone machines, and fogging to take care of toxins and bad odor in the air. Any soot and residue will be removed using special cleaning products that are effective without being damaging.