Addressing Foul Odors After A Fire In Your Frederick Home

9/25/2019 (Permalink)

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Addressing Light Smoke Odors in Frederick Homes

Odors can often be one of the hardest obstacles for Frederick homeowners to overcome, even with lighter emergencies that stay localized to a single room. Addressing these lingering effects can often encompass this origin room, but also adjacent areas, especially with symptoms like smoke odors. We have a strict process that helps us to overcome these concerns every time we head out to a water loss incident.
 
There is a different process to clear light smoke odor fire damage from Frederick homes. When our SERVPRO team first arrives, we can begin to implement these strategies as promptly as possible to help reduce migration of these effects and permeation into local materials. These situations only get labeled as light losses when there is no present structural damage, residues are light or non-existent, and only a small area in your house has become affected by the incident. Once this designation exists, our technicians begin the steps necessary to eliminate the odor.
 
Depending on the ignition source of the fire damage, our team can often remove the primary affected materials and contents of the compromised area of your property. These are the most concentrated dosages of harsh odors and charring, and their removal from the premises can often noticeably reduce the potency and severity of scents left behind after the fire loss incident. Once this step completes, our team can work on establishing adequate ventilation through this area to get airflow happening.
 
Cleaning is one of the keystones of light odor removal, and often requires the use of wall and surface cleaner in our inventory of powerful products. The highest degree of this cleaning takes place in the origin room, less in adjacent areas, and little to none in other rooms and zones farther from the ignition point.
 
Thermal fogging is one of the top choices of our SERVPRO technicians for eliminating what odor remains after the cleaning. We can even inspect areas like crawl spaces and structural cavities for odors that also must get addressed with the use of our fogging machine.
 
Fire loss incidents have multiple layers of effects that our SERVPRO of Frederick County team must overcome. As challenging as this process might seem, we have an established system that addressing each effect individually to make it, “Like it never even happened.” Give us a call anytime at (301) 662-1747.

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