Cleaning Secondary Damage to Your Stockton Home After a Fire Requires Professional Remediation

10/8/2018 (Permalink)

SERVPRO can remove the soot and smoke damage from a fire and water damage from extinguishing the fire..

Secondary Effects of a Fire in Your Stockton Home

Some disasters leave their mark on your Stockton home that takes an extended period to recover from and move forward. Natural disasters are often situations like this, affecting many houses throughout the area at once and requiring the expertise of trained professionals to remedy. Another situation that requires this same level of experience and specialized equipment is recovering from a fire in your house.

Regardless of how this situation could have originated in your Stockton home, restoring the fire damages is never as straightforward as you might believe. For example, the primary effects that you experience such as the loss of contents in your home and the structural concerns present once the fire gets extinguished are only the beginning to the effects that restorers have to overcome to return your house to preloss conditions. Our SERVPRO professionals have the training and techniques to overcome all of these effects that threaten your home, but it could benefit you to understand the widespread nature of fire damages.

One of the first things that you have to contend with once a fire gets extinguished within your home is the means by which it got extinguished. A secondary effect that many people do not typically bring to mind when restoring the damage of a fire is the amount of water used from nearby hydrants or pump trucks to extinguish the flames. This pooling water inside of your home can itself weaken the structure, or even lead to worsening conditions such as mold growth.

Smoke damage is another effect that is often deemed to be secondary. Some time after the fire has gotten extinguished and any potential hazards assessed, smoke damage remains as often little more than a persistent harsh odor that spreads throughout the affected areas and the contents within them. Deodorization techniques such as thermal fogging can remove this, but it is often one of the final steps in our restoration process.

While contending with fire by itself can prove problematic for a homeowner, trying to sort out the steps to recover from the damage can seem impossible. Our SERVPRO of Stockton restoration technicians have the expertise and the equipment to bring your home back to its original condition quickly. Give us a call whenever disasters strike at (209) 477-3090.

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