Once the initial shock and upset has subsided, time is of the essence when you’re dealing with the damage caused by a house fire. It can be incredibly traumatic to see your possessions ruined or damaged by smoke, even in a small fire, so it’s important to get things restored to some semblance of normality as soon as possible.
The contents of your home, along with the building’s structure, can all be damaged in a house fire, and secondary smoke damage can make things a whole lot worse. That’s why we’d recommend getting in a professional disaster restoration firm like 1st Choice Chemdry to make sure that your well-intentioned efforts to get things back to normal don’t actually make the damage worse. This is something that you should be able to organise though your insurer; 1st Choice Chemdry are called upon by many UK insurance companies to sort out the aftermath of a house fire.
As soon as the building has had all the correct safety checks, you should ventilate it as much as possible. This will help to remove the nasty stale smoke odours. Then call your insurance company (or your landlord, if you rent your home) to arrange a clean-up. Your insurer might take over on your behalf, which is great, some insurers work with their own approved contractors and others will let you choose someone and just cover the cost.
If you are not insured, you will need to make your own arrangements.
Before the professionals arrive, try not to walk through the affected areas if you can avoid it, as this will just move the soot around and grind it deeper into the carpets and upholstery. If the damage is everywhere, or in an area that gets a lot of traffic, you could put old towels down to prevent transfer.
DON’T try washing carpets or upholstery yourself. Leave it to the experts who will have their own professional products to do the job properly.
As soon as the disaster restoration experts are on the scene, they will start working to make sure that your home is back to normal. The first task will be to get rid of the soot and smoke contamination. Then we’ll remove any damaged items that need to restored outside of the home, eliminate any lingering smoke odours and finally thoroughly clean your home so that it looks and smells fresh again.
We’ll restore any items that we can using our professional range of cleaning products and move any furniture back into the house as soon as the work is done.
If you need advice about our services, please contact our friendly team who will be delighted to help.
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