What Surface Cleaning Approaches Are Best After a Fire in Chicago?

8/19/2020 (Permalink)

“Like it never even happened.”

When a fire damages your Chicago home with smoke residues, our SERVPRO team can employ multiple tactics to protect and preserve the underlying materials.

Surfaces and contents alike can become quickly damaged in wet smoke and furnace puff backs in Chicago homes. In particular, wet smoke residues can be a considerable challenge for professionals cleaning technicians of our SERVPRO team to remove. Surface cleaning is not a universal approach for different residues and soils. It leans heavily on pre-mitigation evaluations conducted by our professionals to determine the type of damage and its spread through the property.

Fire cleanup for Chicago homes or businesses is a blend of three specific cleaning approaches and strategies:

    •    Abrasive Cleaning – This general term describes multiple approaches for residue removal, but the most noteworthy of these would be vacuuming, brushing, steel wool, and other agitative cleaning techniques.
    •    Soda Blasting – The use of media on hard surfaces like concrete and brick, the typical interior design of loft apartments, can remove surface residues without allowing damage to the underlying substrate.
    •    Controlled Demolition – With a team of in-house contractors, we can offer area homes a definitive strategy for recovering widespread property loss through calculated material removal. Efficient material discarding can reduce the presence of odors and soot.

Can SERVPRO Perform Repairs and Reconstruction?

The same contractors that can arrive to begin controlled demolition on the property also work to rebuild and repair it when necessary. A seamless transition between the mitigation and the building stages help restoration as a whole to be smoother and less costly.

Water damage repairs can mean several tasks that must get completed before restoration completes, including the mending of water lines and controlled demolition. Give our experienced SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown team a call to help at (773) 434-9100.