Effective Ways to Combat Odors After Fire Damage

7/15/2019 (Permalink)

Disasters in your Festus home can be challenging to overcome, even with the most dedicated of work on your part or those that offer to help. Many situations leave their primary effects which can prove overwhelming enough to overcome, but also have secondary effects that can be equally concerning to resolve. In a situation like a fire in your house, you not only have the immediate structural concerns to contend with, but you also have secondary effects like smoke and soot damages. 

Fire damages rarely become the responsibility of the homeowner to resolve. From the moment that the first responders leave the scene, you speak to the insurance provider covering your home and find out the details you need to get in order to file a claim that funds the restoration. Professionals like our SERVPRO of Southern and Central Jefferson County team can arrive quickly to begin assessing the damage and determining what needs to occur to make the situation “Like it never even happened.” 

While you might be the most concerned about the pressing structural concerns that occur from the widespread fire that had recently gotten extinguished, several secondary effects could pose a threat to those within the house such as smoke damages. This often presents itself as an odor that spreads well beyond the immediately affected areas of your house and contents, thus requiring specialized equipment from our SERVPRO professionals to overcome.  

Addressing this effect is one of the last steps in the restoration process, and it involves setting up equipment like thermal foggers to break up the odor on a molecular level. The odorless chemical solution removes the harsh scent from the atmosphere, and can also get safely used on embedded odors within fabrics, furniture, and drapery. 

While smoke damages might not top the list of your primary concerns when it comes to dealing with the effects of a fire in your home, this is an essential part of the complete restoration process for our technicians. Our SERVPRO Southern and Central Jefferson County team is ready to help overcome all of the effects of the disaster as quickly as possible. 

Our highly trained technicians are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week to assist in any fire emergency you may have. Call us today! (636)467-5444