You may be anxious to clean your home after a fire, but unless you take the time to get professional help and/or advice, you may be wasting your efforts or creating further damage. Soot is oily, dry and easily yellows appliances, corrodes solder points in electronics and stains carpets, draperies, plastics and other household textiles. For this reason you must remove it before you attempt to clean or deodorize items.
Smoke odor may remain in clothing, upholstered furniture, carpets and draperies unless they are properly deodorized before cleaning. First Restoration Services uses “counteractants,” chemicals or additives that break up smoke molecules to eliminate odors. The type of counteractant used will vary with the type of material burned in the fire. Counteractants may be applied to furniture, carpets and draperies.
For soft goods, First Restoration Services is the only company in WNC that owns and operates an Esporta Wash System. This system can restore items with sewage, mold and heavy soot damage and items contaminated with heavy smoke odor.
Other equipment FRS may use to deodorize:
- Odorox Hydroxyl Generators
- Vaporshark
- Thermo Gen Fogger
