After Fire Damage, How Can You Restore Your Home to Its Pre-Fire Condition?

5/21/2021 (Permalink)

Count on SERVPRO when a fire damages your home.

You Need to Contact the Right Patchogue Mitigation and Restoration Service 

There are numerous fire damage mitigation and restoration services in Patchogue, but not all of them are created equal.  This disparity is apparent when examining the differences in their qualities, competencies, and service offerings.  Quality services, like SERVPRO, do various things for you, including:

• Mitigation
• Structural Cleaning
• Cleaning of Personal Property
• Restoration of Specialty Items
• Reconstruction of Destroyed Components

Mitigation involves taking measures to protect your home from further damage.  Structural and personal property cleaning refers to the removal of smoke residues, as well as the deodorization of your home and its contents.  Restoration and reconstruction, of course, involve actions taken to return your property to its pre-fire condition.

What Makes SERVPRO a Good Choice for Fire Damage Mitigation and Restoration?

When accidents happen or disaster strikes, you need fast assistance that you can rely on.  Many Patchogue fire damage operations simply do not have the right experience for all of your mitigation and restoration needs.  Also, these and other businesses may not be available and ready to do the job at a moment’s notice.  Service providers like SERVPRO are exceptional because they are:

• Locally owned and operated
• Strategically placed for fast arrival to most Patchogue area locations
• Often available at a moment’s notice, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year
• Trained and experienced in restoring fire and smoke-damaged structures, cleaning fabric and upholstery, and odor control  
• We save you time and money by first trying to restore your property, rather than simply replacing it

How Do We Handle Your Fire-Related Issues in Patchogue?

Fire damage can result from any of a number of causes, but SERVPRO is capable of effectively handling the results of most of them.  Whether your issues result from cooking fires, accidents with cigarettes, or other disasters, we are here to help.  Our technicians in Patchogue have, in the past, successfully cleaned and restored:

• Floors, walls,  and ceilings
• HVAC systems
• Attics
• Household fixtures
• Personal property items

We use numerous advanced cleaning and restoration techniques to deal with fire damage.  Our workers first determine what areas and materials are involved, if damaged walls and ceilings need repainting, and how they should clean everything.  SERVPRO proceeds very methodically to ensure that work is done correctly and additional property damage is not done.  Some of the methods we use to return your home to its pre-fire condition are:

• Wet cleaning to remove oil-based residues and those that are dry from metal, painted, and wooden surfaces
• Residues that are not grease-based are cleaned with dry cleaning sponges
• We use the innovative peroxide active cleaning technique when dealing with heavy soiling on fragile surfaces, like blown, coated, or textured ceilings
• Our technicians methodically clean surfaces to limit or prevent streaking
• We vacuum all accessible HVAC surfaces, wash all accessible interior areas of the system with a general-purpose detergent, and seal and deodorize your ducts with ultra-low volume foggers
• SERVPRO employs wet and dry methods to clean attics and varied content items
• Our workers clean windows and glass with a low-alkaline glass cleaner

What are the Results of Fire Damage Mitigation and Restoration?

Obviously, following a devastating fire, you want your life to return to normal as quickly as possible.  Services like ours attempt to help you do that by acting fast, reducing recovery times, and limiting expenses.  Our Patchogue technicians usually arrive at your home within four hours of your initial phone call.  These workers expertly evaluate your particular situation and determine how they can most effectively handle the fire damage.  All affected areas are properly inspected, their materials assessed, and a treatment plan is devised for handling your home’s particular problems.   

Instead of just replacing affected structural elements and possessions, we first attempt to repair them.  This repair focus, of course, reduces overall costs and service completion times.  Workers skillfully clean and seal HVAC systems to ensure that harmful airborne contaminants are eliminated or minimized.  Impacted ceilings, walls, and other surfaces are deodorized and sealed so that unpleasant smells are done away with.  Often, after we finish working on a home, residents and guests are not able to notice that fire damage ever occurred.  Ultimately, we restore homeowners’ peace of mind following a destructive fire event.     

House fires are always an unpredictable, traumatic experience.  In the aftermath of such an event, you are likely to be upset, confused, and do not know what to do.  These are all normal responses to a destructive house fire.  With all that said, though, rest assured that there are services that can help you overcome fire damage.  If a fire ever impacts you, contact SERVPRO of Patchogue at (631) 924-1801 for assistance.