Call Our Team When Your Home in Kutztown Experiences Fire Damage

6/3/2021 (Permalink)

Smoke and Odor problems in your Kutztown home? No worries, call SERVPRO for full house fire cleanup and great indoor air quality

Smoke Odor and Residue Removal in Fire Damaged Kutztown Home

Disasters that affect your Kutztown home leave considerable damages for a homeowner to face. Situations like a fire can spread quickly throughout the property and affect many areas and materials simultaneously. While structural concerns are a priority once our technicians get called out to the scene of a recently extinguished fire, other health hazards and focal points must also get addressed, like the effects from the smoke.

When fire and smoke damage your Kutztown home, many homeowners tend to picture the billowy cloud that can leave a distinguishable odor behind throughout their property. In truth, smoke damages can do much more than leaving a harsh smell throughout your home, and knowing how to address all of the effects from the presence of smoke is one of the training elements to our SERVPRO restoration certifications from the IICRC. We can even explain the effects from phantosmia.

Even if your home was never on fire, a neighboring property could force your home to get overrun with the effects from the smoke as the structure fire rages next door. Depending on the heat from that fire and the materials burning, smoke damage can occur in different ways. Dry smoke occurs in oxygen-rich environments, leaving dusting and light sediment on surfaces that often leads to easier cleaning for our professionals on-site.

On the other hand, Wet smoke is the opposite and can leave a thick residue on surfaces, which is a challenge for our SERVPRO team to overcome. Since this smoke is thicker, the smell can become more substantial, and it has more of an opportunity to exploit cracks and seep into materials. The technicians contending with this variety of smoke damage often determine that removing the material entirely and reinstalling new components is more cost-effective and faster for the customer than salvaging the damaged area.

Smoke removal for your home often extends far beyond contending with the odor this effect can leave behind. Give our SERVPRO of Reading fire damage restoration team a call whenever disaster strikes at (610) 779-8189.