Effects of Smoke and Fire Damage

Smoke Behavior 

The complication of property destruction or loss through fire damage is because of the special behavior of smoke. Trained fire damage professionals ought to survey the loss site in order to decide the extent to which smoke, fire, moisture, and heat impacted building contents and materials.

Experienced fire restoration experts understand that areas that are seemingly unaffected by fire destruction still are harmful to homeowners. Smoke could penetrate inside cavities of a structure, causing concealed odor and damage. The knowledge that fire restoration experts possess of building systems assists them in investigating how far smoke and fire damage might have spread.

A few things you might not understand concerning smoke: 

• Hot smoke will migrate to colder areas and top levels of structures.
• Smoke will flow around plumbing systems, utilizing holes around the pipes to go from one floor to another.
• The kind of smoke might significantly affect the process of fire damage restoration. 

Kinds of Smoke 

Once in a fire setting, experts test the soot to decide which kind of smoke damage happened. Cleaning procedures are based upon the data identified within the pretesting of fire damage. 

Kinds of soot involve: 

• Wet Smoke Residues: Will result from smoldering fires that have low heat. Residues are smeary, sticky, and with bad odors.  Smoke webs may be hard to clean.
• Dry Smoke Residues: Will result from quick burning fires at higher temperatures. Residues often are powdery, dry, non-smeary, small, smoke particles.
• Protein Residues: Pretty much invisible residues which discolor varnishes and paints.  Extremely pungent smell.
• Fuel Oil Soot: The furnace puff backs will distribute fuel oil soot.
• Additional kinds of residues – Fingerprint powder, tear gas, as well as fire extinguisher residues additionally require cleanup.

 As the fire damage mitigation starts, the professional keeps you informed and answers your inquiries, all as they work to assist in making the fire damage ‘as if it never occurred.’ Contact ServiceMaster of Greater Bridgeport today for an estimate on fire damage restoration in Trumbull, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford, Stratford, Fairfield, Danbury, Trumbull, Westport, Greenwich, Shelton and the surrounding Connecticut area.