Saving Contents after Fire Damage in Your Vancouver Home

8/7/2019 (Permalink)

If a fire has left your family heirloom covered in soot, call SERVPRO for restoration.

Restoration of Fire Damaged Items

In properties affected by fire, most of the focus is on the loss that touches the structural components. However, the loss of contents can pile up to a tidy sum of money. Some items have sentimental value too, which complicates the situation because even replacing them cannot bring back that value.  With the appropriate methods, it is possible to clean and restore contents after fire damage. 

In a rush to restore fire damage in your Vancouver home, it is easy to push restoration of items to the back burner. Some items, especially when caked in soot, might be thrown away even though they are salvageable. Our SERVPRO team helps overcome this problem in many ways.  We sort the contents into categories with salvageable, unsalvageable, and questionable items. We can clean the salvageable items onsite then move out the questionable ones to an offsite facility for specialized restoration. Such an approach creates order, helping save more items.

Saving Collectible Items from Smoke Stains and Soot

Among the contents in your home, there might be collectible or antique items. Their value can be either sentimental or monetary, so there is a need to take every step to restore them. For clear glass or crystal items, a mixture of warm water, dish soap, and vinegar can help remove residues. Our SERVPRO technicians undergo extensive training in different cleaning procedures allowing them to choose the best for you. We also have specialized equipment such as Ultrasonic Cleaners, which use sound waves to form and implode numerous vapor bubbles. Immersing items caked in residues in this cleaner helps deliver results faster.

Restoring Upholstery Items

Upholstery can be affected in different ways during fire incidents. Cleaning can help remove fine soot residues that penetrate deep into the cloth materials as well as remove stains and odor. In case the item is charred, other repairs such as resurfacing might be necessary.  Cleaning mostly involves saturation methods, which dissolve the residues. Our SERVPRO technicians can use Upholstery Cleaning Machines to wash and rinse your items more effectively.

You can save more contents in your home if you involve a professional restorer. Call SERVPRO of E. Vancouver / Clark Co. at (360) 254-0049 to assist. Our resources can help eliminate all traces of damage "Like it never even happened."

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