Fire breakouts leave the premises wrecked and ravaged. However, if the fire extinguishing was done within time, you can restore several objects out of the debris left behind by a fire. Before you hire help to clean and restore the objects with fire damage, get to know about the types of smoke damage.
Wet Smoke Damages
When the fire burns slowly, it leaves behind sticky residues of wet smoke. This is the most stubborn variety of smoke damage of all. The sticky and thick residues coat the objects and cleaning the layer becomes extremely troublesome.
Without experts, you can never get rid of those black marks. If your house, office or garage has recently undergone a ghastly fire, you find wet smoke marks almost everywhere.
Call the experts to restore whatever is left. Without professionals, restoring the almost withered objects would be a challenging task. Objects with such damage also give out a heavy smoke odor.
Dry Smoke Damages
High-temperature flames created dry smoke damage. Unlike wet smoke damage, it creates a thin and dusty layer of residues. Experts can clean the objects with a layer of dry smoke residues effortlessly unless the surface of the object has pores or crevices on it.
When the powdery smoke residues enter the tiny pores or get inside the crevices, cleaning them becomes a hassle-some task. However, professionals can clear such smoke residues without much hassle using special equipment and their experience.
Removal of dry smoke damages remains integral to almost all Fire damage repair work. Hence, the experts fetch all necessary equipment to ensure a thorough cleaning.
Protein Smoke
Flames of fire feed on all objects on its path. When a fire breaks out, it burns almost everything inflammable on its way. When food items catch the fire, they produce protein smoke featuring a light color and strong smell.
Even though this smoke is light in color, it can cause permanent discoloration of wood and painted objects. Experts can restore such damages to a great extent, if not entirely. If one of your favorite items has suffered protein smoke damage, call the professional for restoration.
Petroleum Smoke
When oily substances burn they produce petroleum smoke. This variety of smoke features oil particles which make the smoke residue greasy. Though the petroleum-smoke-stained objects seem hard to be cleaned, the experts have special grease-cutting cleaners that can restore the objects perfectly.
After the fire dies out, you will find several objects in unrecognizable condition around you. Once the experts begin the clearing and restoration process, many of those smoke-stained objects will become stable and as good as they were before the fire.
PuroClean Emergency Services offers fire and smoke damage cleaning and restoration in Jacksonville. You can contact the expert for any variety of fire damage repair work.