Electrical Fire and Fire Damage in Your Chicago Home

9/28/2022 (Permalink)

Excess power through power spikes or damaged cords can cause your laptop to overheat and result in an electrical fire in your home.

SERVPRO Knows the Proper Techniques to Restore Every Part of Your Home after Fire Damage

You use your laptop daily in Chicago for work or fun. Excess power, provided through poorly regulated power flow or power spikes, causes heat damage to electronics. It includes wires in a damaged power cord, plus metal parts of your laptop connected to it. The chance for combustion grows as the heat in your device builds. When the heat reaches the flashpoint of nearby furniture or carpeting, it can set other materials ablaze.

An electrical fire leaves your Chicago home with fire damage to clean up and repair, but knowing where to start can be daunting. Your Chicago home needs professional expertise to restore it to its pre-fire condition, so calling on our technicians at SERVPRO is the wisest thing you can do once the fire is out.

Our goal is to clean your home to preloss condition, which involves removing the effects of the fire damage. We also remove smoke residues from surfaces of your home. The debris also gives off smoke odors, so we must deodorize the affected areas to eliminate malodors. Fires can damage parts of your structure badly enough that they cannot be restored, so we need to dispose of these structural items.

Before SERVPRO techs start cleaning, we test to determine the correct cleaning method, effectively removing the residues from the material or surface without damaging it. We can wet clean washable materials; we apply a water-based cleaning agent to the area that does not damage the item. Non-washable materials cannot be wet cleaned. Applying a water-based cleaning product could cause more damage, so we use a dry-cleaning method instead.

The type of residues on a surface can also help us choose the cleaning method. Residues that are oil or grease-based need a cleaning agent, which is a dry solvent, even though water-based products would not harm the surface being cleaned.

SERVPRO of West Loop / Bucktown / Greektown works efficiently and thoroughly to clean your home in Wicker Park, West Loop, or Bucktown after fire damage. Just reach us at (773) 434-9100 as soon as the fire is out so we can help restore your home.