Taming the Chaos of Fire Damage Step by Step
Fire damage leaves a chaotic scene with destroyed materials, hazardous substances, and varying forms of soiling around the property. Creating order is the first step to ensure fire damage restoration runs smoothly. At Lightspeed Restoration, we follow procedural approaches when responding to fire incidents, which leads to faster conclusions and better outcomes.
Knowing how vastly a fire incident affects your property is the first step in a procedural fire damage restoration exercise. When a professional team inspects your property, we focus on issues like how far soot travels within the building and how deeply the heat and flames charred materials. The inspection also reveals salvageable and unsalvageable items, such as your furniture, appliances, and other items. Another aspect of the inspection focuses on the hazards, identifying materials that need to be removed or vulnerable structural areas.
You Have to Secure Your Home Before Restoration Starts
Fire can cause many problems, including breaches and weakened structural areas that may lead to collapse or other hazards. Shattered glass, splintered wood, and nails can injure those mitigating the damage. At this stage, our Lightspeed Restoration team provides emergency services for safety enhancement and damage control.
Essential emergency services
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Board up - sealing off shattered windows and other structural openings
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Water extraction - removing pooling water from firefighting or sprinkler systems
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Wiping down materials - wiping soot from vulnerable materials such as metal surfaces
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Emergency power and lighting - temporary power and lighting ensure safe restoration work
As smoke spreads during the fire, virtually all items and surfaces are covered in soot. A thorough cleanup is necessary to complete the restoration. Some of the things to clean include ceilings, walls, and cabinets. Items like chairs, sofas, tables, and rugs require cleaning to address soiling and odors. Our Lightspeed Restoration team is well-equipped to perform such cleaning since we have vacuums, blast cleaning, and various chemical agents to deal with everything from light to heavy soils.
Putting in the Final Touch
Once you finish major restoration tasks, such as removing debris or stripping off all the soot from the walls and ceilings, you feel accomplished. However, putting the final touches is essential to ensure the property returns to its former glory. Deodorization is one necessary final touch, eliminating the odor molecules trapped in carpets, insulation, or drywall.
Our professional restoration includes elaborate deodorization. To rid your rooms of the smoky smell, we can use thermal fogging, where a fogging machine produces a deodorizing mist mimicking the smoky conditions that created the smells, thus neutralizing odor molecules deeply embedded within materials. Ozone and hydroxyl treatments are also practical since they break down odor molecules, leaving the property odor-free.
A well-planned fire damage restoration exercise ensures smoother, cost-effective recovery. Lightspeed Restoration of Covington is well-prepared to deliver such services. Call us at (985) 323-6356.