Fire can cause serious damage and make your home Inhabitable. If a fire takes place in a business, it can risk shutting down for a long period of time. In both cases, it is important to have access to an excellent fire damage restoration team. Rapid Restoration Recovery Inc. Florida has been dealing with fire damage for over a decade. If you need our help, just give us a call.
My Home is Covered in Ash and Soot – What Can I Do?
Inhalation of ash and soot is just as bad for you as smoke inhalation. When the fire has been extinguished, it is important that your home and business are cleaned and sanitized.
We like to say that soot and ash are serious biohazards. To some, that may sound exaggerated, but it is true. Ash and soot contain carcinogenic substances which cause serious health side effects.
Even a small fire can cause deposits of soot and ash in your home. You may not be able to see it, but you can almost smell it. Often, soot and ash settle in the HVAC system. When you go to switch it on, soot and ash particles are dislodged.
These particles easily find their way into the rest of your home or business. To make sure your living or working environment is healthy, they need to be removed. Rapid Restoration Recovery Inc recommends your home or business be deep cleaned after a fire.
What Can Cause A House Fire?
It is not only electrical wiring or natural causes such as lighting strikes that cause fires in a home.
One of the most common reasons behind home fires is grime and dirt. Surprisingly, dust and grime build-in in ducts and air vents are behind many house fires.
Grime deposited in air vents consists of dust, hair, and grease. Given the right circumstances, it can ignite. As part of fire damage, we always recommend air vent cleaning. If the fire started there, it is obvious you need to have it done.
However, if the fire did not start in the home’s ducts or vents, you should still have them cleaned after a fire. They will be packed with soot and ash which need to be removed.
On most occasions, air vent cleaning is part of a home insurance payout after a fire.
How Is Fire Damage Repaired?
We are not going to say you can repair all fire damage, but more than often you can.
When it comes to working in a fire-damaged home or business, we use three basic strategies – mitigation, cleaning of the structure and removal of fire damage, and content cleaning.
Sometimes, when the building has been exposed to intense heat and fire, we may have to rebuild some areas.
When it comes to specialist restoration including restoring artwork and collectables, we can often help our clients. Electronics are an important part of our homes these days. This is another restoration project we help with from time to time.
Much of what we have mentioned here is probably covered by your home or business insurance. Always check your policy. The management team at Rapid Reconstruction Recovery Inc is happy to guide you through any insurance claim process and work together with your insurance company.
How Much Fire Damage Cleanup Cost?
It is hard to say as this varies on a case-to-case basis.
What we say to home or business owners that contact us, is let us come and assess the situation. Once we know more, we can give you a free estimate for the restoration of the fire damage.
As already mentioned, the cost of paying for the fire is often up to the insurance company. We will give you as much information on how we can help you to recover your home and make it habitable again.
It is in our interest to have you back home as soon as possible.
If you would like to know more about our fire damage service, please get in touch with us. You can call us or reach out to us using our website.
Rapid Restoration Recovery Inc specializes in fire damage and water damage. Many of our services are available on 24-hours per day 7 days per week. When you need help in a hurry, don’t hesitate to give us a call. Our team is always happy to help and understand how distressing it is to experience fire damage.