How Can I Clean My Soiled Furniture in Nampa After I Suffer Smoke Damage?

8/29/2020 (Permalink)

Fire damage in your home needs to be dealt with quickly so you and your family can get back in. Contact SERVPRO for professional remediation services.

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Some of the most common types of issues that can take place after you suffer from a structural burn in your Nampa house, are those related to smoke. These partially combusted particles get released during a blaze, and they can travel to places in your home that are far from where the flames initially started.

Can items of mine that are covered in soot be saved?

During fire damage mitigation in Nampa, our SERVPRO team always follows the same set of procedures using these basic principles:

• Locate affected areas.
• Determine what kind of residues exist.
• Identify the types of surfaces affected.
• Capture the residues either dry or in a cleaning solution.
• Remove and properly dispose of the residues.

We can also combine these principles with the four elements of cleaning to successfully clean your contents and building materials. The things that affect how well soils get suspended in a cleaning solution are temperature, agitation, chemical action, and time. Depending on the type of material affected, one or more of the basic cleaning actions can be used to remove most soot residues.

What are the different cleaning actions?

• Mechanical Action: This action describes how agitating an affected surface can be an effective way to dislodge soot residues.
• Lubrication: To lubricate is to make a surface slippery so that soils can be pushed off and immersed into a cleaning solution.
• Chemical Action: This takes place when one substance chemically alters another one such as a chemical dissolving the soot's bond to your affected surfaces.
• Suspension: This occurs when a chemical is applied to an affected surface, and the residues get suspended into the solution and released from the surface.
• Dispersion: Once the cleaning product suspends the soot residues into the solution, the soils get dispersed into the product so that they can be removed and discarded.

If you ever suffer from smoke-related issues after even a small fire ignites in your house, call SERVPRO of Nampa / Caldwell at (208) 466-5000 any day of the week.

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