We Have The Proper Techniques To Restore Your Hicksville Home After A Fire Disaster

3/21/2022 (Permalink)

A fire can destroy your home quickly, and our experts are here to pick up the pieces.

Types of Fire Damage Cleaning Methods Used in Hicksville Homes

When we mitigate fire damage in a home, the training our technicians undergo teaches them the best practices for restoring home structures and contents through different cleaning methods. Our goal is to always assist homeowners in saving as much as possible to help them avoid costly replacements for possessions. 

After arriving on-site to a Hicksville living room with fire damage, our technicians immediately set up containment using heavy plastic over doorways and vents to limit the spread of soot in the rest of the property. We then pre-tested belongings in the room to determine which had the potential for restoration to a pre-fire condition through cleaning. 

Our certified Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration Technicians use several different types of cleaning methods depending on the surface or object, such as: 

• Dry Cleaning-our technicians use this type of sponge to pick up light residues or pretreatment before wet cleaning.
• Wet Cleaning-used when we need to lift heavy residues off surfaces. 
• Foam Cleaning-normally used by our technicians to clean upholstered items that have the potential to shrink or bleed if we apply wet cleaning methods.
• Abrasive Cleaning-used for stubborn or stuck on residues and removal via light scrubbing or, in some cases, an agent such as soda blasting.
• Immersion Cleaning-used for deep cleaning non-porous items by dipping them entirely into a cleansing agent.

The homeowner had a concern regarding his large television and was pleased to find out electronics in the room may not be a fire loss. We did not test it and advised him not to turn on the television as consumer electronics damaged in a fire can be a shock hazard. Smoke residues contain acids that corrode metal surfaces, and exposure can damage devices beyond repair. During fire damage mitigation, our SERVPRO team coordinated with a qualified electronics technician regarding the restoration potential of his television and a laptop computer to determine the restorability of the devices for the homeowner.

SERVPRO of Hicksville / Plainview has the training and expertise to mitigate any fire damage in your home. Call us 24/7 at (516) 733-1800. Our emergency response team will arrive on-site soon after your call because We're Faster to Any Size Disaster.