Cleaning Fire and Smoke Damaged Home Contents

7/10/2019 (Permalink)

When someone in Chesterfield, MO suffers a home fire, they are also likely to suffer a certain amount of loss. Those losses can come in the form of personal belongings such as clothing, household belongings and furnishings, and even the structure itself. Many items might be salvaged by dry-cleaning, steam cleaning or ultrasonic treatments, but how do you determine which can be saved?

Fire assessment and restoration professionals may be able to rescue a good deal more than you would expect. Content cleaning is one of their specialties and is a valuable service to a family that has just gone through the trauma of a fire.

How a Restoration Service can Help With Fire Cleanup

•Clothing, curtains, bedding and other fabric items that are not fire damaged may be treated by dry cleaned to remove the odor of smoke
•Non-porous or hard surfaced items may be cleaned of chemical residue and smoke odor by ultrasonic treatments and an ozone generator can help destroy bacteria and smoke odors throughout the home
•Electronics or appliances that have not suffered water damage may be evaluated for repair or replacement
•Documents, papers, photos and books may be put through a gamma irradiation process to disinfect and preserved them
•Cleaned items may be temporarily moved to a content storage facility to keep them from being re-contaminated until the home is ready to move back into.

Get the Help You Need

It can be overwhelming to face a house full of burned, water damaged or smelly, smoke damaged items. You may feel all is lost, but in many cases items can be salvaged. Restoration techs in Chesterfield, MO will be able to help with deciding which things can be saved which things need to be discarded.

Content cleaning is an important part of restoring your home. Using everything from dry-cleaning to ultrasonic treatments to save some of your belongings, your home can soon be “Like it never even happened." Visit https://www.SERVPROsouthchesterfieldwildwood.com/ for more information on fire damage.