Factors Making Gaithersburg Fire Damage a Restoration Challenge

4/13/2023 (Permalink)

SERVPRO professionals in Gaithersburg are trained to handle every level of fire damage, including the odors that follow. Call us today!

SERVPRO Has Solutions for Fire Damage Effects

It is important to recognize how destructive fire events can be for homes and businesses. In many cases, there is no option other than pursuing professional restoration and cleaning, as the insurance company is involved and the thorough level of repair necessary is beyond the capacities of the average homeowner. In addition, there are specific factors that can make fire cleanup complicated, including:

• Safety Concerns
• Structural Damage
• Soot Damage
• Offensive Malodors

Gaithersburg fire damage events require experienced professionals like our SERVPRO team to address. We have experienced FSRT-certified technicians accredited through the IICRC to mitigate loss, clean up after fire damage effects, and restore the damage that smoke and fire effects can do to contents and the structure. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.

Fire Damage Mitigation

Mitigating damages is one of the priorities of our responding technicians, especially as soon as our team arrives. Emergency services allow us to regulate the spread and severity of loss effects without compromising the structure. It is necessary to overcome safety concerns through specific mitigating actions to make the cleaning and restoration faster and safer for our technicians and any remaining house occupants. Focuses of this effort include:

• Airborne Threats - Soot and smoke solids can become airborne. We utilize air scrubbers and filtration equipment to make the environment safer.
• Standing Water - The extinguishment process can leave standing water throughout the structure. We must remove this water damage threat to protect the property from secondary effects.
• Debris Removal - It is essential to remove burned materials, ash, debris, and other solids related to combustion. Heaps of charred remnants amplify soot and malodor threats.

How Is the Structure? 

Evaluating the structure's condition is a focal point of the job scoping process. Fires are destructive and overwhelming for many building materials used in residential construction, causing complete or partial combustion of these elements in many house areas. Our professionals must evaluate where controlled demolition is necessary and if any building materials impacted can still be preserved and restored to their original appearance.

Can Soot Damage Be Removed?

Soot is one of the most formidable obstacles to remove after fire damage. We must carefully determine the type of smoke damage, the hosting material, and test various cleaning methods to ensure that the selected methods are the kindest to underlying substrates. Typical cleaning solutions include:

• Surface Cleaning
• Abrasive Action
• Controlled Demolition

Managing Odors After Fire Damage 

Malodors are a common byproduct of the combustion process. Not only must our responding OCT-Certified technicians address these smells throughout the structure, but we must also pay careful attention to when porous materials have absorbed smoke molecules and can continue to influence damaged rooms with offensive odors. We have several deodorization practices and products to help.

Restoration vs. Replacement

Careful considerations must be made to determine the best actions when SERVPRO can restore materials at a higher cost. Unique building materials and exotic items can be beneficial to restore over replacing. However, highly available and accessible materials like drywall and particle board cabinetry are often easier to replace than to fix at great length and cost.

Gaithersburg fire damage loss events are destructive and compromising to households and businesses. Because of the urgency of these situations and the requirements of insurance companies to use professional restoration services, we are a preferred vendor to complete the recovery of your home. Give our SERVPRO of Gaithersburg / Germantown team a call today at (301) 963-8474.