Fire and Flood Restoration

Imagine the scene: you come home from holiday to find that your house has been flooded and you really don't know where to start with cleaning it all up. Or even worse; your home or business premises are affected by fire and smoke damage, and you need to get everything restored to normal as quickly and efficiently as possible.
You need to call on the experts to sensitively and professionally restore your property to normality, making things right for your family or staff in as little time as possible, minimising upset and inconvenience. At Chem-Dry UK, we understand how a disaster such as a fire or flood can affect you, and so we work with leading insurance companies to make sure that we provide the most comprehensive and reliable service possible.
Chem-Dry UK is trusted to carry out this type of work by almost all the major insurers, and although we also take on smaller jobs such as accidental spills, we'€™re also experienced in dealing with the level of damage and upheaval that a large fire or a flood can cause.
It'€™s a very complex area of work, with a myriad of safety rules and regulations, as well as insurance procedures to work with, and so every member of staff is given all the relevant training and qualifications to be able to carry out the work professionally. We deal with fire and smoke damage, flood and water damage, carpets and upholstery, stain removal and anti-microbial application and cleaning, and we'€™ll make sure we restore your property to the highest standard.

Insurance Restoration Work

The first thing you need to do as soon as you find a leak, flood, fire damage or accidental damage that needs to be restored is contact your insurer. We receive claims direct from the insurance companies themselves, which are then validated through our customer service centre.
Your insurers will contact us and make arrangements for us to send out the closest correctly qualified operative to help you clear up the mess. Arranging the restoration through your insurance company also gives you the added bonus of taking some of the paperwork stress away from you at a time when, to be fair, you really don'€™t need the hassle. Just leave it to us to sort out the administration and then send the bill directly to your insurer.
We carry out an average of nine insurance jobs per day at Chem-Dry UK, leave it to us and we'€™ll have your property professionally restored as soon as we can.

Commercial Cleaning

Keeping your employees healthy is vital if you want to manage your workload and maximise productivity, and if the office is dirty, dusty and grubby, it doesn't inspire confidence or promote health.

Is your work place making you ill?

It might seem a bit of a strange question, but if your staff are always coming down with coughs, colds and other illnesses, you could consider the possibility that the soft furnishings might be a contributing factor to their symptoms. Look out for signs such as watery eyes, coughing and sneezing. If it’s not the middle of winter cold season (or hay fever season) and there's no apparent reason for the problem, ask people whether they feel better out of the office. If so, think about getting professional cleaners in, because it could be dust, spores or allergens deep within the carpets that are getting up peoples' noses.

Sick Building Syndrome

It’s not a myth; some buildings really do make you ill. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to work out why some buildings just seem to cause ‘sick building syndrome’ than others, and there’s not been any one definitive answer yet.

Humidity, poor ventilation and lighting are all potential causes, but also implicated are poor hygiene, and airborne particles like dust, carpet fibres or fungal spores.

Regular carpet, curtain and upholstery cleaning will help to eliminate at least some of the possible causes of inexplicable staff illness, which will also go on to boost staff morale, another factor implicated in high levels of staff sick leave. So it’s a win-win situation really.

Pleasant working conditions

Keeping your work place looking sparkling clean, getting rid of nasty moulds, dust and pollutants and generally making the place a nice place to be in will help to improve workplace morale. Staff will feel more appreciated and cared-about if you make sure that all of their working conditions are clean and fresh, and not just the meeting rooms or customer facing areas.

Keeping your office carpets smelling and looking clean will also give your employees a sense of pride in their work place, and encourage them to take more care of their own surroundings, making your investment in good quality carpets, curtains or upholstery for the office last that little bit longer.
It's so much nicer and healthier to work in a clean, hygienic place, and hiring a professional commercial cleaning company to take care of your work place cleaning requirements is something your work force will definitely thank you for.

When stains are a pain

That accident always seems to happen at the worst possible time, doesn't it? Whether it's just before you’re due to host an important conference, or at home where you've just invited the whole family to celebrate a big birthday, that will be when the wine is spilled on the function room carpet or your youngest child manages to stick some dubious substance to the curtains.

What's needed is a service that can clear up these unfortunate accidents quickly and efficiently, with no fuss leaving your home or business premises looking just as you imagined they would.

There is a myriad of tips and tricks available online that claim to give you good advice about how to remove tricky stains, but in all honesty, the best thing you can do is call in a professional. At 1st Choice Chem-Dry, we can quickly send someone out to give you a quote for our specialist stain removal services, and what's more, if you need us to carry out the job during unsociable hours, we’re there. We can send a technician over to take care of any stain-related disasters at night, or early in the morning, so that as far as your clients are concerned, nothing ever happened.

We use a special technique to clean carpets that ensures they will be dry in a couple of hours, rather than a couple of days. Unlike traditional steam cleaning, we pair as little water as possible with our special effervescent, carbonating cleaning solution, giving your carpets a deep-down clean that gently lifts dirt out of the carpet fibres rather than pushing it further down into the pile. Less water means less chance of mould and damp getting into the carpets, too.

We can give your curtains the 1st Choice Chemdry treatment too, with our specialist curtain cleaning service. After we've carried out an evaluation of the type of cleaning required, we bring our professional dry-cleaning techniques to your business or home, so there's no need to take the curtains down. We will simply turn up with our high-powered extraction machines and specialist dry curtain cleaning solutions and get to work straight away while the curtains are in-situ, sprucing them up and making sure any stubborn strains are dealt with on the spot.

We have six vans, all on standby to deal with your everyday cleaning needs and any emergency stain situations, plus an excellent range of domestic and commercial cleaning solutions that includes a range of stain removers and deodorisers which will help you to keep your carpets and curtains in great condition after we’ve worked on them. We even work with insurance companies if there’s been a flood or a fire, to help clean and restore your property to its former glory.

Ask us for a quote or take a look at our website for more information on our range of domestic and commercial cleaning services, we're one if not the biggest carpet and curtain cleaning company in Glasgow and Strathclyde