Fire Restoration Helps Make Homes Habitable Again in Lafayette

7/22/2022 (Permalink)

Soot tags look like a spider’s web in the upper corners and can make your home seem dirty.

Remove Soot, Odor, and More with Fire Restoration

Any size fire can produce an enormous amount of smoke. This smoke contains solids and is not entirely gas-like. These solids become airborne during the fire because of the heat involved. These solids are also known as soot. 

Removing soot from the interior of a home in Lafayette is part of fire restoration. As we do this, we also run equipment called air scrubbers that reduce the number of soot particles in the air. Soot can stay suspended in the atmosphere for extended periods after a fire. Besides smelling foul, soot in the air can affect people’s sense of taste. Other problems can arise because of soot in the home. 

Some of these problems become apparent almost immediately, like the ever-present odor. Others might take a while before you notice them. A few issues to be aware of that SERVPRO can help your family avoid:

• Staining of clothing, curtains, bedding, towels, tablecloths, carpeting, and upholstery,
• Corrosion of metal fixtures, door handles, hinges, or exposed hardware, 
• Soiling of windows and mirrors, countertops and tables, glossy furniture, and
• Soot tags look like a spider’s web in the upper corners and can make your home seem dirty.

SERVPRO’s fire restoration team can handle removing soot from your residence as part of our fire restoration services. As our air scrubbers work, we also work according to IICRC standardized procedures to clean your home. Part of this is to have different sections of your home contained with negative pressure chambers that we customize specifically for you. 

We clean the home’s structure, and we also clean your family’s personal belongings to remove soot. For the worst build-up of soot after a fire, we use our own Fire Star 356. We often do not need this, but it is always available for the worst a fire’s smoke might leave behind.

SERVPRO of Lafayette is ready, 24/7, 365 days a year, to help with fire restoration in your home. Call us at (765) 420-0077 for fast, dependable service that can make it all “Like it never even happened.”