Fire Damage Smoke Damage

As a homeowner, it’s scary to think about having a fire in your home. But fires, both small and big, can happen. Even if you have a small fire in your kitchen, the smoke from that can be hard to get out of your home.

Today’s blog post is here to help you better understand how smoke can damage your home — and what you need to do to permanently remove smoke odor. Work with our professional fire damage restoration team at All Phase Restoration for your Denver, Colorado Springs, and Windsor home!

How Smoke Damages Your Home

When there’s a fire in your home, your first concern might be the structural damage the fire can cause. But smoke particles from the fire can penetrate into your home, leaving a lasting smoke odor. Beyond repairing and restoring the fire-damaged areas of your home, work with experts who know how to remove the smoke odor from your upholstery, walls, ceilings, and wood.

Walls & the Ceiling

Smoke stains the walls and ceilings of any room where the fire spreads. While you can wipe off the soot and ash from the walls, you want to make sure that you’re cleaning those areas with the right materials and assessing those areas for other damage.

Upholstery, Curtains, & Furniture

Smoke particles can cling to the fabric and upholstery you have in your home, like your curtains or furniture, leaving them with a smoky odor. But you want to be careful with how you handle this upholstery. Something as simple as vacuuming using a standard vacuum can instead push the smoke particles further into the material instead of removing them. A professional restoration team can help clean those areas and utilize special tools to ensure that the smoke particles are adequately removed.

Carpet

Like with upholstery, the carpet throughout your home can also hold smoke particles. Certain cleaning products or processes can damage your carpet, making it that much harder to restore. A professional restoration team will have the right filter and technique to properly remove and clean the carpet in your home.

Hardwood Flooring & Porous Surfaces

It might be surprising to hear that flooring and other hard porous surfaces can also discolor and absorb smoke particles. If the fire hasn’t burned the flooring, it’s possible to deodorize and resurface that flooring. Soot that has settled on other porous surfaces can also be removed using dry chemical sponges, helping to prevent permanent staining.

Plastic & Porcelain

As you’ve already guessed from reading about upholstery, carpet, and porous surfaces, smoke particles can wreak havoc on most surfaces in your home. Soot on surfaces like tubs, basins, and plastic surfaces can lead to discoloration and, if left uncleaned, can cause permanent staining.

In order to prevent permanent damage to those surfaces, you want to act fast to clean those areas. But, before you tackle those surfaces with different cleaning materials, you want to make sure you’re using the best cleaning solutions to adequately remove that residue. That’s where finding an expert fire damage restoration team comes in!

Metal Appliances

You’ve probably already guessed it, but your metallic appliances — like your washing machine, refrigerator, stove, or microwave — can start to corrode from acidic soot. In order to prevent these appliances from rusting, thoroughly clean them with cooking oil.

Contact All Phase Restoration for Fire Damage Restoration in Denver

We hope that this post helped you better understand how smoke damage affects your home. Whether you’ve recently experienced a fire in your home or you’re looking for professional help to remove smoke odor from somewhere in your home, trust the professionals. Immediately following a fire in your home, contact All Phase Restoration to get fire damage restoration services for your Denver, Colorado Springs, and Windsor home!

While you’re here, make sure you read through our previous blog posts to learn more about our water and fire damage restoration services at All Phase Restoration:

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