The Challenges of Restoring Fire-Damaged Hartford Attics

2/19/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO will accept the challenge of fire damage in your Hartford home, we know how hard fire in your home can be.

Fire damage in your Hartford home can be challenging, let us help. 

Fire losses in Hartford homes can present multiple hurdles for our experienced SERVPRO professionals to overcome in returning a house to preloss condition. With soot and smoke coating surfaces, as well as a need for reconstruction and debris removal, technicians responding to your fire loss have several mitigation tasks to begin to reduce losses for the customer. When these fire effects exist in a challenging structural design, such as slanted ceilings of the attic or dormer outlets, restoration can be even more complicated.

Despite layout and design obstacles that might exist for restoring fire damage in Hartford attics, we still have premier deodorization, cleaning, and filtration equipment to help this process. One of the first challenges that our technicians must face when addressing fire loss effects in the attic is the presence of stored items and belongings in this space. Even without a working knowledge of the value of these items, swift removal of these possessions can often protect them from irreparable smoke and soot damage.

Content management is only part of the work that your attic needs, however. Because most of the exposed construction materials in this area are porous, untreated woods, it can be highly sensitive to direct damage from odors, soot, and other airborne particulates. Irregular shapes and crevices can add to the challenge of removing the residues from these surfaces and adequately addressing the odor concerns with deodorizing equipment. Clearing soot can often involve the use of chemical agents to dissolve or emulsify soiling for a rinse removal.

Deodorizing the attic can also prove problematic for the same inaccessibility concerns. The use of ULV fogger and thermal fogging machines can help to disperse a neutralizing vapor throughout the attic space and into the porous exposed wood surfaces. This deodorizing fog can penetrate beyond the surface of damaged materials to neutralize trapped odor molecules.

When fires originate or profoundly affect the attic space of your home, this can come with specific obstacles for our SERVPRO of Newington / Central Hartford team to overcome. With experience and cutting-edge equipment, we can make fire losses “Like it never even happened.” Give us a call today at (860) 667-9191.

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