How Can SERVPRO Neutralize My Home’s Unpleasant Fire-Related Odors?

8/17/2022 (Permalink)

Fires of all sizes can cause smoke and soot damage. You can trust the SERVPRO Brand to make it, "Like it never even happened."

Your Neighborhood SERVPRO in Glen Head Uses State-Of-The-Art Tools to Eliminate the Unwanted Smells of Fire Damage. 

When fire ravages your Glen Head home, it leaves smelly airborne particles that eventually settle and coat surfaces throughout your residence. These troublesome remnants of house fires generally produce persistent foul smells that can prove quite challenging to neutralize. With the right equipment, however, it is possible to rid your home of these unpleasant reminders of a fire. High-quality services like SERVPRO employ all the latest advanced gear to treat your home’s fire damage effectively. Our technicians utilize specialized equipment that rapidly removes impacted air from your interiors and filters out odorous particles.

How Does SERVPRO Remove Fire-Polluted Air from Your Home?

As one of the most well-equipped fire damage restoration companies in Glen Head, we use all the latest air moving and filtering technologies to remove fire-polluted air from your residence quickly. The primary devices we employ to do this are:

• High-velocity box fans that quickly push fire-polluted air out of your home
• Advanced air movers that swiftly draw in and push out impacted air, exchanging it for fresh air
• Innovative air scrubbers clean dirty interior air by filtering harmful gasses and odorous particles out of it

Additionally, our technicians employ HVAC cleaning systems, which have agitators, a strong vacuum, and a filtration network, to clean up and prevent airborne particles from spreading. All this works to remove contaminants from your home’s interior air. This cleaning is just the first step in eliminating fire-related smells from your residence and returning your property to its pre-fire condition.

What Does SERVPRO Do to Neutralize Remaining Smells?

SERVPRO professionals use additional tools and measures to counteract, mask, or seal off odors remaining after their initial ventilation procedures. These actions make your home smell more than it did before the fire in Glen Head. Some of the tools and techniques we do this with are: 

• Vaportek systems that neutralize smell-emitting particles with aerosolized natural oils
• Ozone generators to counteract odors with ozone gas
• Injection devices that put deodorants in impacted upholstery and carpeting
• Thermal foggers to neutralize or mask foul odors with aerosolized deodorants
• Ultra-low volume (ULV) foggers that seal and deodorize difficult-to-access areas in your home

Most times, these efforts are highly effective in handling the unpleasant smells of fire damage. They often do away with these annoying reminders of fire events and make your home fit to live in again.

Harmful Compounds Are Removed

As a concerned neighbor, SERVPRO is dedicated to your safety. We focus on removing the toxic and other harmful products of combustion from your home as quickly as possible by using specialized expertise and tools. Fires can strike anywhere, anytime, and often when you least expect them.

It is crucial to have your fire damage remediated by trained professionals for all these reasons.  

Returning a house to its pre-fire condition involves much more than restoring physical damage and cleaning visible residues off surfaces. 

Remember, if a fire ever damages your residence, call a local service that cares about your safety and is dedicated to your satisfaction. Contact SERVPRO of Glen Cove/Jericho at (516) 671-1919 for assistance.