Home Owner Restoration Tips

Written on March 13th, 2010 by admin

If you are a cleaning professional or a home owner who wants to do your own restoration we can help. Your project might require reconstruction or just some degree of cleaning restoration, either way it is important to realize that smoke and fire problems do not stop with char damage. Smoke and soot can travel and penetrate into other rooms affecting paint, carpet, upholstery, drapes, clothing and any other family belongings.  Further, fires are classified into two groups, simple and complex: Simple fires are fueled by pure fuels and generally result in complete combustion. Complex fuels, the most common house fire, are fueled by synthetic materials in carpets, furniture, toys, wiring, etc. and generally result in incomplete combustion and the production of soot and acid deposits. Whether you started with the big smoker above or with a little stove top accident or a stove top disaster as shown to the left you need to get your life back together again.  You now have two problems: How to clean smoke and soot soiling as well as the stubborn odors they generate. We will divide the areas of concern down for you and deal with each separately in the links below. Fortunately different materials and degrees of damage don’t all require different products just a change of technique or dilution to safely clean the surface.